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Wednesday, 02 October 2013 01:00

New Brazilian designers

Children of the Campanas|Fernando Campana’s office with Sushi table|Humberto’s office with Vermelha chairs|The Campana studio workshop|The Racket series|The Pirarucu cabinet|Stuffed alligator chair|Gay’s chair made of car tyres|Gay’s table made from metre rules|Stefanovicz’s parasitic, tumour lights|Capote’s tribute to the Panton chair|Capote’s stools made of shovels|Cappote’s table with hammer legs|Capote’s homage to the Tulip chair|Neute and Chvaicer’s pendant light|Their Cabinet lightbox|Zanine’s inflated wood chair|His three-legged chair for Cappellini|Almeida’s Cornell-like cabinet|His Africa chair||

Fernando and Humberto Campana are seen as the godfathers of modern Brazilian design, and the influence of their ‟alchemical” use of salvaged materials is seen a new generation. But these young designers are determined not to live in the shadow of their forebears, says Christopher Turner

Published in Features