In 2022, Claudia celebrates her partnership with ETEL with a gorgeous exhibition. In "Elective Affinities" the designer combined her furniture pieces with works of art that speak to each other in great harmony.
Claudia
Moreira Salles
1955
Brazil
Every tiny detail in each of the designer’s pieces is the result of lots of work during their conception – the method she learned while surrounded by rulers and compasses at the Industrial Design College (ESDI) in 1978, in Rio de Janeiro.
Her love of wood started early, during her first internship at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked creating furniture for a school library. “That was when I got to know wood and its handicraft better. I fell in love, got deeply involved and never stopped drawing,” says the designer.
Right after she graduated, Claudia left for São Paulo, where she met designer Fulvio Nanni. For several years she designed for Nanni Moveleira – one of the first furniture companies that promoted independent designers in the 1980s. It was Fulvio who introduced her to Etel Carmona in the late 1980s.
The Duetto bench was the first piece commissioned to Claudia Moreira Salles by a client, and the first of the designer’s creations to be manufactured by ETEL, in 1991. This partnership – consistent, authentic and permeated with great rapport – has lasted for more than 25 years.
Without getting lost in the dunes of minimalism, I find the maxim of the master Le Corbusier: "Ici on ne brode pas des coussins", a crude and chauvinistic reading of "less is more".
CLAUDIA MOREIRA SALLES
Claudia Moreira Salles
Caxangá Cheeseboard
Claudia Moreira Salles
Cms 2005 Sideboard
Claudia Moreira Salles
Afinidades Dining Table
Studio MK27
Arthur Casas
Lia Siqueira