Tag: Design Pernambucano

  • Sourcing design furniture from Brazil: authorship, technique and the limits of reproducibility

    Not every buyer sourcing from Brazil is building a volume program. Curated buyers need a different reading, and most sourcing advice was written for the volume case. An exhibition in Recife placed industrially produced pieces and hand-woven, technique-anchored pieces on identical plinths. Curatorially correct, and commercially misleading. Pernambuco is not an alternative to the southern…