Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Designed by Gabriela Campos and the team behind Estúdio Mais Alma, Sertão Side Table merges Brazilian art and culture for an inspired piece of functional and playful design.
Sertão Side Table is a tribute of the work Abaporu (1928), by Tarsila do Amaral, who played a key role in the emergence of Brazil’s modernism movement, with her unmistakable signature, and its vivid colours and rounded shapes.
Abaporu is speculated to be the most valued Brazilian work in the world.
The painting is considered the symbol of everything that modernism wanted to say in Brazil.
For its inspired design, Sertão Side Table has recently been awarded a 2022 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Sinuous and embracing, the Sertão side table features the central elements of Tarsila’s painting.
The intention was to recreate the movement with a playful soul.
Sertão Side Table is a unique piece, both organic and fluid, while at the same time a statement piece.
It is an inspired design that brings clean and fluid lines.
Regarding the colors in the composition, the concept was to bring the colors of Tarsila’s work, which refer to Brazilianness, with vivid colors such as green, orange, and blue.
With this work, Estúdio Mais Alma makes a move towards the authentic and the unique, guided by the appreciation and plurality of the art world and nature.
Created by the architect Gabriela Campos in 2012, Estúdio Mais Alma is an architecture and design office based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her work has a contemporary yet welcoming approach, with a comfortable and timeless aesthetic, combining warm materials with clean lines with soft palettes and fine details.
Project: Sertão Side Table
Designer: Estúdio Mais Alma
Lead Designer: Gabriela Campos
Manufacturer: Estúdio Mais Alma
