Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was a Brazilian architect with a career spanning eight decades, known for his buildings with light, floating forms and flowing lines. The author of more than 600 buildings around the world, he avoided right angles and sought the naturalness of organic contours. Niemeyr's furniture is an integral part of his architectural designs and expresses an uncompromising spirit of innovation and progress. Over the years, Oscar Niemeyer was involved in the design of the UN headquarters in New York, where he was invited by the famous architect Le Corbusier; he designed the new capital of Brazil with the urbanist Lucio Costa; and he built the headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris while hiding from 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 Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London and the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE) in São Paulo.

«Curves are the essence of my work, because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.»