“The Noble Line — Wanscher + Tenreiro Furniture Masterworks” at R & Company, New York
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R & Company, in collaboration with designer and Danish furniture expert Vance Trimble, is showing a groundbreaking exhibition, “The Noble Line — Wanscher + Tenreiro Furniture Masterworks,” at the upper level gallery of the 64 White Street location i“The Noble Line — Wanscher + Tenreiro Furniture Masterworks” at R & Company, New York
R & Company, in collaboration with designer and Danish furniture expert Vance Trimble, is showing a groundbreaking exhibition, “The Noble Line — Wanscher + Tenreiro Furniture Masterworks,” at the upper level gallery of the 64 White Street location in New York.The exhibition explores the unexpected chemistry between two pioneering designers from Europe and South America: Brazilian Joaquim Tenreiro and Dane Ole Wanscher. The exhibition runs through May 11.These design giants, born in the first decade of the 20th century, are being shown together for the first time.“In their respective markets, each was able to synthesize traditional furniture idioms into a new type that was in sync with the emerging rational and space-saving architecture of the mid-twentieth century,” states the gallery in a press note.Tenreiro came from a long line of Portuguese furniture makers and Wanscher from a family of art and architecture academics. Both the designers have created works of the highest level of craftsmanship, sharing a love of wood — particularly Brazilian rosewood — that played an important role in the creation of so many of their iconic pieces.“Wanscher created some of the most refined pieces of the Danish modern design movement. Over the course of a highly successful career, Wanscher was acclaimed for his sophisticated furniture designs of slender dimensions, impeccable lines, and elegant curves,” says the gallery.“He combined fully and equally the talents of a master craftsman, designer and sculptor with those of a historian. His sensitivity to the luster and living delicacy of wood enabled him to bring organic life and rich sense of the past to the indelibly modern sparseness of the International Style,” stated Roberta Smith in her The New York Times review of the 2003 exhibition “Danish Modern Master Furniture,” which was organized by Vance Trimble at Dickinson Roundell to celebrate the 100th year of Wanscher’s birth.Joaquim Tenreiro achieved great success in Brazil and is renowned as one of the best woodcarvers through his sensual designs, impeccable craftsmanship, and his sensitivity to detail. Tenreiro’s designs possess an exquisite formalism that references the past while pushing techniques forward.“His subtlety with curves and his furniture’s slim silhouettes, rendered in Brazilian hardwoods, have prompted many to consider Tenreiro the foremost pioneer of modern Brazilian design,” states Aric Chen in R & Company’s 2016 publication “Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth Century Design.”The exhibition is on view through May 11, 2019, at R & Company, 64 White Street, NY 10013, USA.For more information, visit: http://www.r-and-company.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more