Design 
27 February 2025
Design 
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Oscar and Anna Maria Niemeyer

Rio chaise lounge

Fasem
Brazil / Italy, c. 1978 / c. 1990
lacquered wood, leather upholstery, rubber, brass 36 h × 64 w × 22½ d in (91 × 163 × 57 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $5,080
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provenance: Estate of Michael Salour, Carlsbad | Private Collection
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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