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Kovacs bookcase
1959 / re-edited2019
A collection of modular module in Pau Ferro wood designed by Jorge Zalszupin in the 1950s/60s, inspired by the arrangement and colors commissioned by the Kovacs family in the 1960s.
Jorge Zalszupin born in Poland, in 1922, at the age of 15 he felt irresistibly attracted to a book he saw through a bookstore window. Opening the book’s jute cover – where Le Corbusier’s initials, LC, were printed in small, golden letters – Zalzuspin was hopelessly taken with architecture.
He studied during the war and, when he graduated, in 1945, he felt so disillusioned with the devastation he saw in his hometown that he decided he would leave to look for other lands. After a spell in France, he came to Brazil, where he encountered the right conditions to develop his unique, poetical, sensual and modern brand of architecture.
In order to convince his clients to accept his bold ideas, he had first to build his own house. Designing furniture that would befit his architecture was but a natural consequence.
The accessible woods, the hunger for all that was new in the post-war period and the developmentalist model adopted in Brazil at the time provided the ideal conditions for his creations to be very well accepted by those with open minds.
- Dimensions:Height: 79 in (200.66 cm)Width: 79 in (200.66 cm)Depth: 16 in (40.64 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:2019
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Houston, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU9776239698832
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