Hong Kong’s colonial history and mixing of nationalities made it the perfect backdrop for Modernismo Brasileiro, an exhibition of mid-century Brazilian furniture staged at the Factory in San Po Kong in association with Ivan Pun + Partners, its curator, Ulysses de Santi, said at the opening party. “Much of the history of Brazilian modernist design, as it is known outside of Brazil, has been written recently by scholars increasingly interested in the dynamism of one of the last frontiers of industrial design,” Ulysses told the gathering. The majority of the furniture in the exhibition, representing the work of a wide range of renowned designers, including Joaquim Tenreiro, Jorge Zalszupin, Geraldo de Barros, Ernesto Hauner, Sergio Rodrigues, Percival Lafer and Oscar Niemeyer, had been sold by the end of the evening,…
