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Monumental 'Diamond Beak' Entry Doors
Salvaged from a diplomatic building in Brazil, these architectural salvage doors belong to the golden era of Brazilian modernism — the decades when Niemeyer's concrete curves and a new generation of designers were redefining what South American architecture and interiors could be, working in dialogue with, rather than imitation of European modernism. Carved from solid Brazilian rainforest mahogany, the doors' repeating diamond-faceted panels catch light in shifting planes across their full four-metre span, a scale built for institutional grandeur rather than domestic restraint. The quality of the joinery and the sheer physical presence of the piece speak to a period when doors of this kind were commissioned as architectural statements in their own right — less an entrance than a threshold designed to be noticed.
Dimensions: 400cm x 400cm (inclusive of surrounds) · Solid Brazilian rainforest mahogany, Brazil, 1950s
Monumental 'Diamond Beak' Entry Doors
Salvaged from a diplomatic building in Brazil, these architectural salvage doors belong to the golden era of Brazilian modernism — the decades when Niemeyer's concrete curves and a new generation of designers were redefining what South American architecture and interiors could be, working in dialogue with, rather than imitation of European modernism. Carved from solid Brazilian rainforest mahogany, the doors' repeating diamond-faceted panels catch light in shifting planes across their full four-metre span, a scale built for institutional grandeur rather than domestic restraint. The quality of the joinery and the sheer physical presence of the piece speak to a period when doors of this kind were commissioned as architectural statements in their own right — less an entrance than a threshold designed to be noticed.
Dimensions: 400cm x 400cm (inclusive of surrounds) · Solid Brazilian rainforest mahogany, Brazil, 1950s
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