Jorge Zalszupin unique sideboard L’Atelier Brazil 1962

Jorge Zalszupin

Poland 1922 – Brazil 2020
Architect, designer

Spectacular and unique sideboard designed by Jorge Zalszupin and manufactured by L’Atelier, Brazil 1962. This is a unique sideboard designed specially for a customers holiday home in Biarritz, France 1962. This sideboard is comparable to the modular system designed by Zalszupin in 1959. The difference is that this sideboard has much more elegant round legs on the corners and is partly covered with leather. This was also seen at the modular system some times at the doors. The sideboard is in fully original condition and the leather has a nice patina from age and usage. This comes from an interior with several pieces by Zalszupin which were imported from Brazil in the early 1960s. All the features this sideboard shows were also used by Zalszupin in other designs, the leather handles in his desks, the legs with the Jockey chairs and the patchwork was a trade mark for many of Zalszupins designs. This was an initiative for the rationalization and use of left-over scraps of wood available at the factory, allowing, at the same time a combination of their different colorings. Highly rare sideboard in stunning original condition.

Provenance; private home in Biarritz, France 1962.