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Paulistano Chair by Pritzker 2006 Winner for Architecture Paulo Mendes...

Designer and architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha is an international reference in Brazilian contemporary architecture. After more than 50 years of work, his modernistic and humanistic conception of architecture continues. Beginning his brilliant career at the end of the Fifties, Paulo Mendes da Rocha became renowned for creating sincere and daring works.



After designing the Museum of Sculpture of São Paulo, Mendes da Rocha started to reveal a complexity in his work, previously unknown to his peers, and an ability to create imaginative and unexpected space solutions. After graduating in architecture in 1954, at the University of Mackenzie in São Paulo, Paulo Mendes da Rocha set up his own architectural practice in 1955.



His first major project came a year later with the Gymnasium of the Paulistano Athletico Club (1957-1961), followed by the Goiàs Jockey Club's8217;s Pavilion (1963) and the Clube da Orla (1963). However, Paulo Mendes da Rocha achieved international recognition when he built the Brazilian pavilion for the Universal Exhibition in Osaka in Japan in 1970 alongside Flavio Motta, Julio Katinsky and Ruy Ohtake - a remarkable architectural project renowned for its quality, technological audacity, simplicity and great elegance.



Paulo Mendes da Rocha has a genuine and sincere interest in mankind and sees his role and duties as an architect to create the most adequate and the viable habitat possible. In that sense, he is a modernist for whom nothing distracts from his vision for a better future



In 1971, Paulo Mendes da Rocha's8217;s design for the now famous Centre George Pompidou in Paris was one of the finalists, and in 2000, he received the Mies Van der Rohe prize for the renovation of the Pinacoteca Museum of Arts in São Paulo.



The Paulistano Chair

Designed in 1957, the Paulistano armchair was, for many years, part of the living rooms of the Athletic Club of São Paulo. The constructivist concept of the structure, made from a single manipulated steel bar, and its cover, made of leather or cotton, give the armchair an esthetical lightness and an incomparable comfort. Previously produced in limited runs, (only 350 pieces in the world), the purity and timeless elegance of its lines make the Paulistano armchair a design classic.



Now produced for the first time for the general public, the Paulistano armchair is available from BODIE and FOU in five colours and two frames:

>Black: stainless steel frame (BF95), black iron frame (BF96)

>Whiskey: stainless steel frame (BF97), black iron frame (BF98)

>Chocolate brown: stainless steel frame (BF99), black iron frame (BF100)

>Orange: stainless steel frame (BF101), black iron frame (BF102)

>White: stainless steel frame (BF103), black iron frame (BF104)

Price : £ 775.00

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