Galeria Metrópole, São Paulo, March 2025
Curatorial consultancy
The exhibition “A place – Contemporary Brazilian chairs” brought together 55 chairs launched in the last 20 years by designers from 12 Brazilian states. The works explore different construction techniques and materials, showing that furniture is no longer restricted almost exclusively to the use of wood, leather and upholstery, but also includes cork, bamboo, acrylic, recycled plastic, stone, metal and concrete, in different construction techniques.
The selection allows us to see how Brazilian designers have recently responded to the challenge of designing an object so dense in meaning. Among the participants, among the masters of the modern movement in Brazil, we have Paulo Mendes da Rocha with the version of the Paulistano chair with wheels, designed by him in 2015. From the generation that began its trajectory from the 1970s to the mid-1990s, there are Arthur Casas, Baba Vacaro, Carlos Motta, Claudia Moreira Salles, Estúdio Campana, Fernando Jaeger, Hugo França, Ilse Lang, Jacqueline Terpins, ovo and Porfírio Valladares. The focus is on new and very new designers, who have brought great vigor to Brazilian design.
Curatorship: Carolina Gurgel
Production and expography: Gabriel De La Cruz and Pedro Luna
Watercolor illustrations: Iury Simões
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