Tenreiro, Joaquim

Joaquim Tenreiro (1906–1992) was Portuguese-born Brazilian designer. In the late 1920s, he emigrated to Rio de Janeiro, where het 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 Ltda. 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.