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Hugo França: The Story of the Tree
R & COMPANY

Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 43 color / 20 bw. | 2/1/2009 | Not available
$60.00



Hugo França: The Story of the TreeHugo França: The Story of the Tree

Published by R & Company.
Text by Evelise Grunow.

Reviewing this volume for American Craft magazine, Beverly Sanders wrote, "During a time when the scarcity of natural resources and the reuse of materials are ever-more-pertinent concerns in the worlds of art and design, the work of the Brazilian designer-maker Hugo França reminds us that magnificent sculptural and utilitarian objects can be fashioned from cast-offs." Trained as an industrial engineer, França repurposes hardwood from fallen Pequi trees in Bahia, Brazil, and fashions them into stunning monumental furniture and sculptural works that call to mind George Nakashima, Constantin Brancusi, Isamu Noguchi and Henry Moore in equal parts. This stunning clothbound volume presents 20 finished tables, benches and objects alongside documentary photographs of França and his work team as they locate, cut and transport the wood to his studio. Published to accompany França's 2008 exhibition at R 20th Century Gallery in New York, this volume also contains a short essay by Brazilian scholar Evelise Grunow.

PUBLISHER
R & Company

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 43 color / 20 bw.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 110   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780970460820 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $79.00 GBP £53.00

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STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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