ANNETTE ARMCHAIR & OTTOMAN

Jorge Zalszupin

YEAR: 1959/2014
ARMCHAIR DIMENSIONS W x D x H (cms): 75.5 x 75.5 x 68.5cm
OTTOMAN DIMENSIONS W x D x H (cms): 57 x 62.5 x 38cm
FINISH: Leather or Fabric
TIMBER: Cedar, Freijo, Imbuia, Sucupira
WARRANTY: 1 Year
LEAD TIME: Approx. 16-18 weeks (1 in stock now)

Handmade to order. Re-edited by ETEL. Embedded with a seal certifying its authenticity and part of the ETEL collection.

The Annette armchair and foot stool were created by Polish designer Jorge Zalszupin in the 1960s. More than fifty years after the first sketches were drawn, his family rediscovered these pieces and showed them to Etel Carmona.

Under the care of the ETEL Collection, the pieces went through a painstaking process of restauration and reedition. The armchair and foot stool – which had been until then unnamed – were baptized Annette, after the designer’s wife and partner for half a century.

JORGE ZALSZUPIN

1922 -2020

He studied during the war and, when he graduated, in 1945, he felt so disillusioned with the devastation he saw in his hometown that he decided he would leave to look for other lands. After a spell in France, he came to Brazil, where he encountered the right conditions to develop his unique, poetical, sensual and modern brand of architecture.

 In the 1960s and 1970s, his work could be seen in pretty much every public building in Brasília. At the factory, a first-world structure mobilized designers, architects, engineers, craftsmen and a wide range of professionals who worked together through all stages, from the research of materials to the final product.

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