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1960’s Brazilian Brutalist Safari Leather Sling Armchair
Brazil's mid-century furniture makers worked in the shadow of an architectural revolution — the raw concrete, exposed structure, and confident materiality of Brutalism, championed by figures like Oscar Niemeyer, shaping how designers of the era thought about form. Chairs like this one translated that sensibility into the domestic sphere: exposed leather slung taut across an unadorned frame, structure left honest and visible rather than upholstered away, in the same spirit that drove contemporaries like Percival Lafer and Jean Gillon to reimagine seating using Brazil's native hardwoods and hides. Its "safari" profile — low, folding, expedition-ready — nods to a colonial campaign-furniture lineage that Brazilian designers stripped down and rebuilt in a distinctly modernist, material-forward language.
Sculptural and unfussy, it wears its structure proudly — a chair built the way its era built everything else.
$3,200
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