While visiting the ETEL Atelier Etel Carmona and Carlos Vergara explain why ‘making’ is more important than ‘art’.
Lissa Carmona, ETEL CEO, discusses the inaugural exhibition at Casa Zalszupin Museum in São Paulo, Brazil.
Considered one of the most important Brazilian designers of the twentieth century, Zalszupin's early works are widely considered to be the benchmark for what we now call Brazilian Modernism.
The former Northbridge home of ex Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has been completely transformed by Nina Maya Interiors. Including Oscar Niemeyer’s Rio Chaise from the ETEL collection.
Design: Nina Maya Interiors. Stylist: Joseph Gardener. Video: The Local Project
In the 1920s a car seat help change the world of design.
Discover how Mart Stam was inspired by a folding car emergency seat to create a new concept in seating, using everyday gas pipes. It sparked an idea in Marcel Breuer who went on, with other famous designers including Mies van der Rohe, to revolutionise how we think about seating.
This video from Tecta’s Cantilever Chair Museum explains the inspiration behind the invention of the cantilever chair.
Marcel Breuer’s Adler bike inspired one of his most revolutionary chair designs.
A humble bicycle helped Marcel Breuer change the world of design. Inspired by an earlier version of the cantilever chair made from gas pipes, Breuer perfected the design using bent tubular steel. And the rest is history.
This video from Tecta’s Cantilever Chair Museum explains the inspiration behind the invention of the cantilever chair.
Great Big Story visits TECTA's Christian Drescher at the world's only Cantilever Chair Museum in Lauenförde, Germany, where TECTA continue to show how Bauhaus ideas are still relevant today and how their team help preserve Bauhaus ideas using the most sustainable manufacturing techniques.
Etel Carmona, founder of one of Brazil’s most well known design groups, explains how sustainability is her guiding philosophy.
Complete documentary “Life is a breath” - the life and work of Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect. Emglish subtitles. Director: Fabiano Maciel 1.29.18
Since 2010, Heine has captured the soul of Brazil. With a keen sense for shapes and textures, he also exemplifies Oscar Niemeyer’s words: “The whole universe is made of curves.”
Join Professor Richard J. Williams in this HENI Talk to uncover the story of this modernist ‘utopia’.
1950s, 1960s Brasilia Brazil, Construction, Modern Architecture. By thekinolibrary.
A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-andwhite mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. By KnoLorber.
The French Communist Party´s Headquarters. A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade: the headquarters of the French Communist Party built between 1965 and 1980 by Oscar Niemeyer.
Blind surfer from Brazil, Derek Rabelo , meets with Makua Rothman and friensd to surf pipeline. By Bruno Lemos.