The Campana Brothers, consisting of Humberto Campana (born 1953) and Fernando Campana (1961–2022), are Brazilian furniture designers.
They stated that Lina Bo Bardi and Oscar Niemeyer were some of the big names who had a concrete influence on them.
In 1984 they co-founded Estudio Campana, which became recognised for its furniture design and intriguing pieces – such as the Vermelha (1993) and Favela (1998) chairs and product lines based on innovative new materials, like the OSB-based Celia Line produced from 2002-2004 or the Banquete line that contains chairs created with stuffed animals (around 2007). In 1998, Estudio Campana debuted their first international show with the German lighting designer Ingo Maurer, "Project 66", which was curated by Paola Antonelli at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In later years, the studio expanded its repertoire to the areas of architecture, landscaping, scenography, fashion, among others.
In fashion, Estudio Campana signed a collection for Brazilian jewelers H. Stern (2001). For the last fifteen years they have collaborated with Melissa to create footwear and accessories.
The Café Campana in the Musée d'Orsay was designed by the Campana Brothers. The Design Museum in Den Bosch, the Netherlands contains a space designed by Estudio Campana (2010) inspired by the Grand Canyon.
Artistic partnerships include the creation of the costumes for “Virtually There” ballet hosted by Performa Visionaries at Mana Contemporary in New Jersey (2006), sets and costumes for the Marseille National Ballet ‘Metamorphose’ show (2007) and the scenography of the ‘Peter and the Wolf’ musical, presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2008).
The Campana brothers have been the recipients of many important awards, including Order of the Arts and Letters, Paris (2013); Ordem do Mérito Cultural, Brazil (2012); Design Miami, Designer of the Year (2008); George Nelson Design Interior Awards, Interios Magazine USA (1999).
Fernando Campana died on 16 November 2022, at the age of 61.
Solo exhibitions Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, 2 November 2014 – 2 February 2015.
Permanent collections The Art Institute, Chicago, USA Association Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese, Milan, Italy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, USA The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA Design Museum, Gent, Belgium The Design Museum, London, UK Don Edelman Foundation, Switzerland Edson Queiroz Foundation, Fortaleza, Brazil High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Manchester City Galleries, Manchester, UK The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Musée de Design et D'Arts Appliqués Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland Musée d’Orsay, Paris France Museu do Design e da Moda, Francisco Capelo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China National Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAC), Paris, France National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, USA Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA Stedelijk Museum, s-Hertogenbosch, Holland The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Bibliography
Tropical Modern: The Designs of Fernando and Humberto Campana, Mel Byars, ed., et al., New York: Acanthus Press, 1998 | Campana Brothers: Complete Works (So Far), Darrin Alfred, Deyan Sudjic, Li Edelkoort, et al., Rizzoli and Albion Gallery, 2010 | Irmãos Campana, Stephan Hamel, Emanuela N. Mino, Max Perlingeiro, Multiarte; Edição: 1st edition, 2018 |
References
External links
Official site Campana Brothers interview (in Portuguese) Campana Brothers profile (in Portuguese) Campana Brothers furniture designs