Vintage Portuguese Constructivist Armchair, 1930s

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This vintage Constructivist armchair was designed and produced in Portugal, during 1930's. with clean, geometric and streamline shape, it is … Read more This vintage Constructivist armchair was designed and produced in Portugal, during 1930's. with clean, geometric and streamline shape, it is made of solid pine, cherry wood and walnut and was fully restored.
“Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century. It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and initially it acted as a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolution's goals.
Constructivists proposed to replace art's traditional concern with composition with a focus on construction. Objects were to be created not in order to express beauty, or the artist's outlook, or to represent the world, but to carry out a fundamental analysis of the materials and forms of art, one which might lead to the design of functional objects. For many Constructivists, this entailed an ethic of "truth to materials," the belief that materials should be employed only in accordance with their capacities, and in such a way that demonstrated the uses to which they could be put. See less