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Oscar and Anna Maria Niemeyer

Rio chaise

Tendo Brasileira
Brazil, c. 1978
lacquered wood, caning, leather 37½ h × 24 w × 66 d in (95 × 61 × 168 cm)
estimate: $12,000–15,000
result: $16,380
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Paper manufacturer's label to interior ‘Tendo Brasileira'.
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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