A Brazilian architect with an eighty-year career, known for his buildings with light, seemingly floating forms and smooth lines. In his practice, the author of more than 600 structures around the world avoided right angles, striving for the beauty of organic contours. The furniture created by Niemeyer is an integral part of his architectural designs and expresses his uncompromising spirit of innovation and progress. Over the years of his professional career, Oscar Niemeyer contributed to the design of the UN headquarters in New York, where he was invited by the famous architect Le Corbusier, shaped the appearance of the new capital of Brazil together with urban planner Lucio Costa, and built the headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris while fleeing political persecution. His furniture designs are in the collections of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Design Museum in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE) in São Paulo.