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17 December 2020
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Oscar and Anna Maria Niemeyer

Rio chaise lounge

Fasem
Brazil / Italy, c. 1978
lacquered wood, caning, leather 34¾ h × 23½ w × 67½ d in (88 × 60 × 171 cm)
estimate: $15,000–20,000
result: $15,000
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provenance: Private Collection, Rio de Janeiro
literature: Móvel Brasileiro Moderno, Vasconcellos and Brage, ppg. 71-72 Furniture by Architects, Emery, pg. 224

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It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve—the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer

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