Arthur Casas Hosts Birthday Dinner for Carlos Junqueira
Arthur Casas and Carlos Junqueira.Arthur Casas, Paulo Lima and Carlos Motta.Adriana and Romeu Trussardi, Carlos Junqueira and Andrea Junqueira Tovar.Carlos Junqueira and Béco Dranoff.Carlos Sarli, Juliana Andrade and Carlos JunqueiraIsabella Giobbi and Eduardo Leme.Gisele Schwardsburd e Claudia Moreira Salles.Fernando Mendes e Renata AragãoLianna Matheus, Mauro Restiffe,Farnando Laszlo and Paulo Lima.Lissa Carmona and Ligia Casas.Luisa Moraes, Ana Nasser and Rodrigo Botti.Marcelo Bratke, Mariannita Luzzati, Carlos and Sibila Motta.Paulo Lima and Zanini de Zanine.Rogerio and Ana Joma Fasano.Scott Mitchen, Carlos Junqueira and Jan Fjeld Rubens Simões.Virgilio Viana, Carlos Junqueira and Etel Carmona.Street facade of Arthur Casas' home, designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas in 1943. Photo by Leonardo Finotti.View of the garage and the entrance in the background of Arthur Casas' home, designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas in 1943. Photo by Leonardo Finotti.View of the dining room and backyard of Arthur Casas' home, designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas in 1943. Photo by Leonardo Finotti.View of the backyard with the dining room of of Arthur Casas' home, designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas in 1943.Arthur Casas' home, designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas in 1943.
This past Monday in São Paulo’s Pacembú neighborhood, architect Arthur Casas hosted a lively birthday dinner party for ESPASSO’s Carlos Junqueira. With a guest list that brought together a faction of cultural producers that define the contemporary architecture, design and art scene in Brazil, the setting of the party may have indicated their modern legacy: Casas’ home is a 1943 residential project by seminal Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas, one of the founders of the Escola Paulista, architectural movement that counterposed the Escola Carioca and its smooth curves (typified by Oscar Niemeyer), by embracing exposed concrete, simpler lines and play with volume. Check out images of the evening and of Casas’ São Paulo home.
