Carlo Hauner (1927–1996) arrived in Brazil in 1948 and encountered the Brazilian modernist context of the mid-20th century, in a climate filled with optimism driven by the economic and social progress linked to the end of World War II. Of Italian origin, he settled in the cosmopolitan city of São Paulo and immediately founded the company “Móveis Artesanal” in 1950 with the aim of producing modern furniture. The new techniques and materials brought by modernization, and the new modern architecture created within the spirit of innovation of modernist ideology, led to the creation of new furniture to integrate this new atmosphere.
Hauner, who had studied technical and artistic design...
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