Brazilian Game Tables
More often than not, vintage mid-century Brazilian furniture designs, with their gleaming wood, soft leathers and inviting shapes, share a sensuous, unique quality that distinguishes them from the more rectilinear output of American and Scandinavian makers of the same era.
Commencing in the 1940s and '50s, a group of architects and designers transformed the local cultural landscape in Brazil, merging the modernist vernacular popular in Europe and the United States with the South American country's traditional techniques and indigenous materials.
Key mid-century influencers on Brazilian furniture design include natives Oscar Niemeyer, Sergio Rodrigues and José Zanine Caldas as well as such European immigrants as Joaquim Tenreiro, Jean Gillon and Jorge Zalszupin. These creators frequently collaborated; for instance, Niemeyer, an internationally acclaimed architect, commissioned many of them to furnish his residential and institutional buildings.
The popularity of Brazilian modern furniture has made household names of these designers and other greats. Their particular brand of modernism is characterized by an émigré point of view (some were Lithuanian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, and Italian), a preference for highly figured indigenous Brazilian woods, a reverence for nature as an inspiration and an atelier or small-production mentality.
Hallmarks of Brazilian mid-century design include smooth, sculptural forms and the use of native woods like rosewood, jacaranda and pequi. The work of designers today exhibits many of the same qualities, though with a marked interest in exploring new materials (witness the Campana Brothers' stuffed-animal chairs) and an emphasis on looking inward rather than to other countries for inspiration.
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Nutwood, Bakelite
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Fabric, Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Marble
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Rosewood, Felt
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Brazilian Game Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Leather, Wood
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Brazilian Game Tables
Brass
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Game Tables
Walnut
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Rosewood
2010s Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Chrome
Late 20th Century Brazilian Game Tables
Mahogany
1920s Anglo-Indian Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Oak, Pine
Early 1900s Late Victorian Antique Brazilian Game Tables
Mother-of-Pearl, Walnut
1860s Victorian Antique Brazilian Game Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Game Tables
Wood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Wood, Baize
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Marble
1960s Organic Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Marble
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Leather, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Game Tables
Velvet, Rosewood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Rosewood, Jacaranda
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brazilian Game Tables
Aluminum, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Game Tables
Rock Crystal
20th Century Brazilian Game Tables
Rosewood, Felt