Alexandre Rapoport - Armchair, 1960s design, rosewood and leather.
 Rare and comfortable armchair in beautiful solid rosewood, seat and back upholstered in light-colored eco-leather.

 Dimensions: W76 x D82 x H84cm

 Alexandre Rapoport (Rio de Janeiro, 1929) is a Brazilian painter, architect, draftsman, and engraver.
 A self-taught artist, he began painting at the Faculty of Architecture before the end of the 1950s.
 He had contact with Cândido Portinari, whose influences permeate his work to this day. He traveled throughout Latin America, where he is very famous. He was also a professor of "Decorative Composition" at the university where he graduated. Also in the 1950s, he received an "Honorable Mention" at the National Salon of Fine Arts.
 From 1956 until approximately 1972, he also dedicated himself to industrial design, exhibiting in Brazil and abroad.
 In addition to Brazil, his works are in numerous private collections and public institutions in Rome, Vienna, Zurich, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Buenos Aires, Antwerp, Washington, and Jerusalem.
 He is considered a surrealist, and his work is very famous and widely sold.
 For a brief period in the 1960s, he also did furniture design.