Set of Six 1950s Cantu Dining Chairs by Sergio Rodrigues
Code: 12672
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Set of six Cantu high dining chairs by Sergio Rodrigues.
Oca
Brazil, 1958
Rosewood, leather
Seat height 45cm
From a family of prominent Brazilian artists and intellectuals in Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Rodrigues took the passion for art and culture that surrounded him and shaped it into a career as one the Brazil’s most influential designers. The roots of Rodrigues’ work lie in his use of traditional raw materials such as jacaranda, peroba and imbuia to create icons of Brazilian taste, value and identity.
This design was awarded third place in the IV Concorso Internazionale del Mobile, Cantù, Italy in 1961.
literature: Sergio Rodrigues, Cals, ppg. 126-127, 255 Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Furniture, Chen.
