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Oscar Niemeyer

Travel / 6 Feb 2017

Oscar Niemeyer’s 1972 Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro finds a new lease of life

Closed for over a decade, Oscar Niemeyer’s 1972 Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro has reopened as the 400-room Gran Meliá Nacional. The restoration of the imposing tubular building in the city’s São Conrado quarter has preserved key elements of...

Fashion / 12 Aug 2016

Great curves: La Perla’s Pedro Lourenço bends it like Niemeyer to create shapely bodywear

Oscar Niemeyer’s sinuous lines hit the fashion headlines in May when Nicolas Ghesquière presented Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2017 collection within the architect’s saucer-shaped Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro. But Brazilian designer Pedro Lourenço already had Niemeyer in...

Watches & Jewellery / 22 Jun 2016

Creative instincts: Assouline uncovers the rich history of H Stern

A leaf through Assouline’s celebration of H Stern makes you realise that it has been a long time coming. We all know the latter as the world’s most recognised Brazilian jewellery name, established by a canny German, Hans Stern, in...

Design / 15 Apr 2016

Piece-by-piece: Nilufar’s beautifully eclectic warehouse at Milan Design Week

’Last year it was all about the space, but this week it is much more about pieces,’ says the Milanese design doyen Nina Yashar. The inimitable art dealer opened her sprawling 1,500 sq m design ’warehouse’, Nilufar Depot...

Design / 12 Apr 2016

Timber traditions: Latin America’s SP-Arte opens a design section

SP-Arte, Latin America’s largest art fair, opened a new design section for its 12th edition that took place between 6–10 April. The founder and director of the fair, Fernanda Feitosa, who is a design furniture collector herself, said that she...

Art / 25 Nov 2015

Surreal perspectives of architecture align in a duet of London exhibitions

Italian photographer Luisa Lambri has built her reputation shooting modernist architecture, particularly houses. And the very best, at that. She has photographed homes designed by Lautner, Neutra, Barragan, Le Corbusier, Niemeyer, Breuer and on. But rather than catching sweeping forms...

Design / 13 Nov 2015

Modern icons: R & Company impresses with its exhibition of Brazilian design

Coming on the heels of its ‘Lina Bo Bardi + Roberto Burle Marx’ exhibition earlier this year, New York design gallery R & Company has opened an impressive new show, ‘Brazil Modern’ that includes those two earlier subjects — Bo...

Watches & Jewellery / 18 Dec 2014

Brazilian jeweller H Stern celebrates seven gilt decades with a travelling gold show

H Stern turns 70 next year and to celebrate, the Brazilian jeweller has chosen to host a glittering gold exhibition at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) in its native Rio de Janeiro. Ouru - Portugese for ’gold’ -...

Design / 13 May 2014

Espasso celebrates long-lost furniture designs by Brazilian greats Oscar Niemeyer and Jorge Zalszupin

New York design gallery Espasso has long flown the flag for Brazilian furniture and design, a subject equally close to our own hearts. Its latest undertaking opening tomorrow, ’Compasso’, sees the gallery host the reissue of an exciting selection of...

Architecture / 26 Apr 2013

A tribute to Oscar Niemeyer at the United Nations, New York

The wonderful Oscar Niemeyer is at the centre of another tribute, this time for his work on the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Organised by the Mission of Brazil to the UN and our personal bastion of Brazilian...

Architecture / 11 Feb 2013

Wallpaper’s 28-page tribute to modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer

The great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer died last December, a few days short of his 105th birthday. Niemeyer went his own sweet way with modernism, adding sensual curves to the strict lines, and in Brasilia, he imagined the perfect city...

Architecture / 6 Dec 2012

Oscar Niemeyer (1907 - 2012)

A sad farewell to iconic Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who passed away in Rio de Janeiro yesterday just a few days before his 105th birthday, leaving a rich and unique architectural legacy in his home country and around the world...

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