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28 October 2021
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Oscar and Anna Maria Niemeyer

Rio chaise lounge

Tendo Brasileira
Brazil, c. 1978
lacquered wood, caning, leather 37½ h × 24½ w × 66 d in (95 × 62 × 168 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $20,000
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provenance: Private Collection, São Paulo
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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