We’re back from Scotland! It was an amazing trip and I saw lots of cool landscape, animals and architecture. As I was suffering overnight from some initial jetlag I came upon the art of Petah Coyne (more on that soon). In doing some research I ended up looking closer at the products and pieces of brothers, Fernando and Humberto Campana from Brazil. They, it turns out, are very well known, I wasn’t in the loop – again.
I linked to their site above but I will note that it’s sort of hard to navigate. It’s beautifully done but it’s a pretty graphics heavy. These brothers seem to have very unique and yet linked stories. Humberto is a trained lawyer where as Fernando is a trained architect and they now work together on an International scale.
Many of their items are functional, while being very unique. The above chair is made of leather formed around sprayed foam on a chair frame. We have these sprayed foam balls in NH, we sprayed them on top of huge beach volleyballs – given how easy that was I wonder how difficult it was to form these chairs or if it was sprayed and then the foam had to be carved away in order to make the final chair shape.
Love these lights. I believe they’re woven – they look almost like a natural colored wicker with glass lights set within their natural form. They look to me like deep sea coral with little critters coming out of it.
More lights – and a sense of scale with the brothers included – how crazy! This to me looks like those fossilized pieces of stone you can buy that are big chunks of rock with small, irregular portions of fossil within them. The lights in this case being the exceptional fossil parts. There’s a great interview with the brothers in a 2008 BOMB Magazine, which has even more photos and information on their inspiration in particular. My favorite part is the explanation of the term “giambarra,” or unlikely mend for any problem that needs solving. It sounds just about how I live my life these days!
Tags: brazil, design, furniture, interior decorating, international, sculpture