Brazil Modern

I’ve been meaning to post this for the longest time and keep forgetting… Here’s the celebratory post for the reprint of Brazil Modern.

Many moons ago, when I worked at Marcenaria Barauna, I learned that an “American” was coming to see some of the early prototypes made with Lina. I was told he was working on a publication about Brazilian design, and I helped supply our images. Even though my role there was furniture designer, I coincidentally took care of the company’s archives.

I knew of the book Brazil Modern before I knew of R & Company or it's co-counder Zesty Meyers (whom I later learned was the “American”). No other institution in Brazil or abroad, before or since, has undertaken the mission of producing a comprehensive overview of Brazilian design in English and with global distribution, placing the country’s twentieth-century furniture on the same level as the stars of the international canon. The world was hungry for it.

Years later, I came to work for R & Company and became their director of archives and publications. When Brazil Modern sold out, we knew we had to reprint it, so we carefully revised the text and images to keep up with the scholarship and expertise developments in the past eight years since the book first came out.

And there you have it! With a green spine to pair nicely with the 2015 print.