W Magazine’s toured art dealer Gordon VeneKlasen’s red brick row house in NY’s Greenwich Village, in their Interiors column. The decor of the place, in a true collector’s fashion, mixes Ming-dynasty ivory, religious reliquaries and contemporary art, as the furnshings … Continue reading
The name of designer and entrepeneur Etel Carmona has been synonymous with pristine furninture-making for decades. Seeing her atelier, outside of São Paulo, is quite possibly the most comprehensive carpentry in Brazil – responsible for the reissues of the most … Continue reading
Etel Interiores single-handedly maintains masterpieces of Brazilian modern design in production, as their esteemed atelier re-edits pieces by luminaries as Jorge Zalszupin, Branco & Preto and Paulo Werneck among others. Etel also reissues the few pieces designed by pioneer modernist … Continue reading
New York designer Damon Liss and his wife Lisa – partners in the interiors firm Damon Liss Design – opened the doors to their own Tribeca apartment on today’s New York Post Home supplement. The 2,400 sq.ft. condo, in a … Continue reading
Brazilian artist Maria Lynch just completed her artist residency at New York’s RU – Residency Unlimited -“…an artist-centered organization dedicated to producing customized residency formats to support the creation, presentation, and dissemination of advanced contemporary art through strategic partnerships with … Continue reading
Tonight, February 19th, AIA NY, at the Center for Architecture, will host the lecture ‘Paulo Werneck: Brazilian Muralist.’ Participant in founding a modernist Brazilian aesthetic, Werneck’s colorful mosaic murals adorned official, residential and business buildings in Brazil throughout the 1940’s … Continue reading
The Wexner Center of the Arts, at the Ohio State University, has been presenting a multi-disciplinary survey of Brazilian arts – films, visual arts, dance, music – in the initiative Via Brasil dedicated to bringing “innovators from a complex and … Continue reading
The current issue of architecture and design Brazilian magazine Wish Casa rounded up 6 prolific architects and interior designers as the top professionals working in their field in 2014. The feature reveals a residential project by each architect/designer, written by the high-profile … Continue reading
Madrid-based architecture magazine Arquitectura Viva featured an article on Isay Weinfeld‘s 360˚ building in São Paulo. The 360˚ Building stands out from other São Paulo residential buildings as it avoids the traditional stacked apartments, offering a looser layout that allows … Continue reading
Esteemed Brazilian publishing house Cosac Naify and São Paulo’s ICCo (Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea) have recently launched a facsimile re-edition of the complete set of the historical landmark monthly Brazilian publication Klaxon. Originally published in 1922, Klaxon marked the official emergence of the … Continue reading
Taking inspirational cues from Mies Van de Rohe’s iconic Barcelona sofa, Claudia Moreira Salles’ Domino bench features a lightweight metallic base that elegantly counterparts its solid batten Walnut wood seat and dividing wooden roll. Minimal in its design, and dynamic in its … Continue reading
