BRASIL is the series of tables in iridescent galvanized steel, a tribute to the Brazilian spirit, its architecture and its landscape.
The contrast is perhaps one of the most evident characteristics in Brazilian society and aesthetics, present in the enormous difference between social classes, in the heterogeneity of the population, in the distant levels of education and in the political struggle. Brazilian architecture also thrives on contrasts, in constant oscillation between radical brutalism and a search for absolute lightness. Finally, the landscape is characterized by two opposites always in balance with each other: an extremely florid and luxuriant nature, and often overpopulated urban spaces, made of concrete and hard corners.
All these contrasts want to be summarized in the image of the BRASIL table, which in its own way lives on a disharmony between the sinuosity of the top and the rational hardness of the structure that supports it; between the thin lightness and the mechanical brutalism of the profiles and joints.
The shape of the top reproduces exactly the windows that Lina Bo Bardi designed for the SESC Pompeia in São Paulo, and is meant to be a tribute to Brazilian architecture, to its organic lines that come to life directly from the tropical landscape. The large three-millimeter shaped steel top rests on a cross structure entirely designed with L-shaped steel profiles bolted together. The top is positioned with its center of gravity in line with the center of the cross-shaped structure, and the two parts fit together through four flat inserts that fit into as many slots in the slab.
Each element of the BRASIL table is polished and iridescent yellow zinc plated (tropicalized in italian). The intention is to create an ironic play with the tropical word so widespread in Brazilian popular culture, as well as to protect the elements from corrosion and give a shiny, iridescent and highly attractive finish.