ART & DESIGN

Art Forum

In São Paulo, a private residence competes with the city’s hottest galleries. Arthur lubow discovers Casa Cubo.


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Photographer: Adrian Gaut
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Antony Gormley’s lead-and-fiberglass sculptures hang from the ceiling above midcentury furniture in the living room; the darker chairs are by Lina Bo Bardi and the lighter ones by José Zanine Caldas; the floor lamp is by J. Rispal.

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A sliding door serves as a transition between the living room’s polished-cement floor and the back lawn.

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Gormley’s work is in the background; Marina Abramovic’s Double Edge ladder, 1995, and Mona Hatoum’s Traffic suitcases, 2002, share space with an Isay Weinfeld desk;

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Weinfeld on the floating steel staircase by the front entrance, next to Tony Cragg’s sculpture Secretions, 2001;

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Tracey Emin’s quilt Message of Ascension, 2001, is displayed next to Monika Sosnowska’s sculpture Untitled, 2007.

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The living room, with the carpet Weinfeld specially designed, is anchored by vintage Gio Ponti coffee tables; the Tank chair at far right is by Alvar Aalto; the sculpture at far right is Jimmie Durham’s 2009 Papillon.

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Photographer: Adrian Gaut

Weinfeld’s Brazilian ironwood spiral floating staircase.