Once again, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was right. When the writer Francisco Inacio Peixoto entrusted to him, in 1942, the realization of his residence in the small town of Cataguases - 300 km from Rio de Janeiro - the architect appeals to those who best embody in his eyes the Brazilian modernity.
Thus, alongside the landscape painter Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) and the painter Candido Portinari (1903-1962), who has just exhibited his works at the pavilion of the Brazilian World Exhibition in New York, the talent of the young designer Joaquim Tenreiro is put to contribution.
Tinted with influence of Corbusier's drawings, the pieces that were commissioned on the day of Oscar Niemeyer's order (the first major series) constituting the designer's birth certificate. He will open the following year his own workshop "Langenbach & Tenreiro" in Rio de Janeiro, from 1947, a point of sale. It was this year that Joaquim Tenreiro realized one of his great masterpieces: the tripod chair, offered for sale by PIASA.
ƒ Joaquim Tenreiro (1906-1992) Cadeira de tres pés
Estimate : 120000 / 180000 €
This work is the subtle fruit of the encounter between the technical virtuosity of woodwork inherited from his father and his cabinetmaking training and his passion for painting.
Like the colours on the painter's palette, the different woods (roxinho, pau marfi, imbuia, mogno and pau ferro), with a bottom line that was symbolically placed in the scenery of Silveira Sampaio's theatre (1914-1964) having for theme a love triangle.
A veritable bridge launched between Portugal where he was born and Brazil where he moved from 1928, Joaquim Tenreiro has become a major craftsman of the construction of the Brazilian identity.
Joaquim Tenreiro (1906-1992) Chaise longue
Estimate : 60000 / 90000 €
