As in Europe, the development of design in Brazil was closely related to modern architecture and the city planning.

The introduction of rational principles into the Brazilian architecture, and finally into the design, is mainly due to the Swiss architect Le Corbusier who travelled, consequently after the invitation of the Brazilian government, to Rio de Janeiro in the Thirties. His collaboration with Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and other young architects launched a revolution in the Brazilian architecture, which was finally concretized by the erecting in 1960 of the new capital of the country: Brasilia. To put an end to the monotony of orthogonal structure, Niemeyer introduced curvilinear forms into his buildings and has, consequently, insufflated a sensual and sculptural relation with environment. This approach proved to be one of the first to give a new perspective against the formal constraints imposed on architecture by the alleged international model.

This change had been sensed, one decade earlier, by two European immigrants who left their spams on the Brazilian cultural scene: Lasar Segall and Gregori Warchavchik. The first, artist related to the German expressionist trend, engaged on the local modernism vague and became one of its principal painters; the second, architect, built his house in São-Paulo according to the most advanced criteria's of European architecture. These pioneers passionate themselves by refined and functional interiors, quickly designed furniture, luminaries and accessories for their personal use and for a certain number of clients. The Brazilian contemporary design is born.

During years, Brazilian architects and artists created new objects to satisfy the needs for a changing society. Folklore, constructivist and functionalist concepts were combined to give rise to sophisticated and innovative furniture. The respect of the tradition naturally joined creative freedom to break with orthodoxy but without losing the imagination and the poetry of the form.

The designers presented by Objekto are the heirs, and today actors, of this evolution.