Lina Bo Bardi's new book portrays her conceptual pioneering work in design

Lina Bo Bardi Designer, Furniture of the Pioneer Times 1947-1958

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The result of research that began in 2013, the new book dedicated to Lina Bo Bardi 's legacy in the world of design, “Lina Bo Bardi Designer, Furniture from the Pioneering Times 1947-1958” , which will be released on the 10th, fills an important gap in the work of the multifaceted architect. With the support of the Bardi Institute , curator and gallery owner Sergio Campos shows, in the first volume of 356 pages, the richness and conceptual pioneering of Lina Bo Bardi's furniture design production, which since her first creation, the MASP 7 chair de Abril , which decisively influenced the first generation of modern designers, such as Sergio Rodrigues .

(Sergio Campos/CASACOR)

(Sergio Campos/CASACOR)

In the midst of the atomic age, Lina Bo Bardi used vernacular and totally unusual materials in the design of many of her furniture pieces, such as wild leather soles, nautical ropes, electrical conduits, oxcart wedges, pine plywood, among others. The book seeks to show how this reading and attitude reverberated among contemporary designers, such as the brilliant Campana Brothers. The second volume of the book, to be released in 2023, will deal with the furniture that Lina Bo Bardi created for her Glass House in the 1950s. The internationally famous Bowl Chair, also called by Lina as “ Tijela ”, as well as the furniture that developed during the period he lived in Bahia and those specially designed for Sesc Pompeia .

3 Leg Chair, conduit version (light iron) /

(Sergio Campos/CASACOR)

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