Tenreiro, Joaquim

(1906 - 1992)

Joaquim Tenreiro (1906–1992) was Portuguese-born Brazilian designer. In the late 1920s, he emigrated to Rio de Janeiro, where he started working for the Laubisch Hirth furniture company. In the early 1940s he adopted the Modernist style and in 1943 he established his own firm, Langenbach & Tenreiro, which became Tenreiro Móveis e Decorações in 1953. One of his clients was architect Oscar Niemeyer, for whose houses he designed a number of pieces. In the late 1960s, he retired from his furniture business and concentrated on painting and sculpture.