Brazil Art, architecture and travel

Local midcentury masters mingle in the São Paulo apartment of a modern mall mogul

By Cinthia Rodrigues • Last updated 11 October 22

Studio Arthur Casas designs a contemporary wine cave in São Paulo for Mistral

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 11 October 22

Campana Brothers look back on 35 years of revolutionary design

On view at modernist Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, ‘Campana Brothers – 35 Revolutions’ is a retrospective of the Brazilian designers’ impactful oeuvre

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 11 October 22

Casa Mirante: Brazilian firm FGMF designs a stylishly functional family home

By Sara Sturges • Last updated 11 October 22

Remembering legendary Brazilian modernist Jorge Zalszupin (1922-2020)

Retracing the ‘succession of miracles’ from Jorge Zalszupin, an icon of Brazilian design who has passed away aged 98

By Scott Mitchem • Last updated 10 October 22

The Campana brothers put a humble Brazilian brick centre stage at Aesop’s latest store

By Ali Morris • Last updated 10 October 22

Arthur Casas' marble-clad condo floats above Ipanema

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 10 October 22

Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Inês Lobo remodel a Lisbon family home

By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated 10 October 22

Galeria Leme’s new home by Metro Arquitetos, Sao Paulo

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 7 October 22

Second life: Etel gives Lina Bo Bardi's furniture a new lease on life

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 7 October 22

Rio's Emiliano hotel, and its swish staff uniforms, evoke Copacabana's glory days

By Daven Wu • Last updated 7 October 22

Brasilia in pictures: 50 great buildings, 50 years

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 7 October 22

Serge Cajfinger swaps Paris for a Bahia beach house by Marcio Kogan

Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designs a dream house out of concrete blocks and a eucalyptus-stick pergola for Paule Ka founder Serge Cajfinger

By Amy Serafin • Last updated 7 October 22

Prada moves to a modernist Brazilian beat at its new Miami boutique

By Ali Morris • Last updated 7 October 22

At home with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão

we talk to artists about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Tracked down at the foot of a volcano in Costa Rica, Adriana Varejão discusses her Oscar Niemeyer-designed house, the eroticism of pulsating meat, and her solo show ‘Talavera’, on now at Gagosian, New York

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 7 October 22

Modernism and nature meet in this contextual Brazilian home

Gabriel Garbin’s architecture studio utilises site-specific design and gentle exposure to nature for this modernist-inspired but very Brazilian home in Porto Feliz, São Paulo

By Martha Elliott • Last updated 6 October 22

São Paulo villa by Arthur Casas is the perfect urban retreat

A contemporary house in São Paulo is a modernist retreat set in the leafy suburbs, courtesy of architect Arthur Casas

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

Casa Floresta is a radical transformation of a traditional Brazilian house

Estúdio Zargos upends convention with this modernist extension to an existing house in Belo Horizonte

By Jonathan Bell • Last updated 6 October 22

Fernanda Marques designs Brazilian house centred on its relationship with nature

Brazilian architect Fernanda Marques reveals the expansive Casa Jabuticaba in her home country's city of São José dos Campos

By Josh Fenton • Last updated 6 October 22

Sergio Rodrigues creates a shop-in-shop at New York's Espasso

By Scott Mitchem • Last updated 5 October 22

Tropical Shed in Manaus brings together work, fun and nature

Brazilian architect Laurent Troost has created Tropical Shed, an industrial-inspired, flexible commercial space in Manaus, a city in the Amazonas region

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 5 October 22

Hardwood hero: a father of Brazilian modernist design is remembered in NY

By Carly Ayres • Last updated 3 October 22

The Nomaa Hotel is one more reason to book a ticket to Curitiba, Brazil

By Daven Wu • Last updated 30 September 22

Interviews with Brazil’s leading architects

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 29 September 22