Celia Line
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The Celia Line (also styled Célia) is a furniture collection designed by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, collectively known as the Campana brothers. Developed in the early 2000s and produced in Brazil by Habitart, the collection is notable for its use of oriented strand board (OSB) incorporating coloured melaminic paper.[1]
The collection was named after Célia Campana, the mother of Fernando and Humberto Campana.
History
The Celia Line was developed after Brazilian furniture company Habitart invited the Campana brothers to create a collection using OSB, an engineered wood panel made from wood strands bonded and compressed together.[1]
Prototype Celia chairs are documented from 2002. Sotheby's has described a set of six prototypes from that year as being made from OSB Campana Masisa and produced by Habitart in Brazil.[2]
The Celia chair was subsequently documented in 2003 as being made from wood and melamine board and manufactured by Habitart, Brazil.[3]
The line included different types of furniture, including chairs, tables and storage furniture.[1]
Materials and production
The defining material of the Celia Line is oriented strand board (OSB). In conventional OSB, strands or flakes of wood are bonded with resin and compressed into structural panels.
The Campana brothers altered the appearance of the material by incorporating discarded coloured melaminic paper during production. According to an account published by Sight Unseen, Habitart had invited the designers to create furniture using OSB. During a visit to the factory, they noticed quantities of discarded melaminic paper and introduced the material into the OSB manufacturing process.[1]
The result was a composite panel in which irregular coloured fragments appeared among the compressed wood strands. The coloured inclusions became a visible design feature of the furniture rather than being concealed beneath a veneer or surface finish.
A Celia dining suite produced by Habitart has also been documented as consisting of a dining table and six chairs made from oriented strand board with blue melamine accents.[4]
Design
The furniture uses the visual properties of OSB as part of its appearance. Rather than covering the engineered wood material, the Celia pieces expose the compressed wood strands and the coloured inclusions throughout their surfaces.
Because the coloured material was incorporated during manufacture of the panels, its distribution is irregular. Individual pieces can therefore show different patterns and concentrations of colour.
Examples of the collection include the Celia chair, dining tables and sideboards. A sideboard from the collection was later described by Sight Unseen as part of the discontinued Celia Line produced for Habitart.[1]
HOLAnDA 2003 exhibition
The Celia Line was exhibited in Amsterdam in 2003 as part of hOLAnDA 2003, an exhibition of Latin American design organized by the Latin American Design Foundation (LADF).[5]
The exhibition took place in Amsterdam in October 2003 and presented work by designers from Latin America, including the Campana brothers.[6]
Contemporary records of the event and the archived website of the Latin American Design Foundation identify the Campana brothers and the Celia work in connection with the exhibition.[5]
Later documentation
The Celia chair has appeared in exhibitions and publications examining the Campana brothers' work. A text associated with the exhibition Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London listed the Celia chair as a 2003 design made from wood and melamine board and manufactured by Habitart in Brazil.[3]
Examples of the line have also appeared on the secondary design market. In 2023, Sotheby's offered six Celia prototype chairs dating from 2002 and identified their material as OSB Campana Masisa.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "The Campana Brothers, Furniture Designers". Sight Unseen. 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Humberto et Fernando Campana: Six chaises Celia, prototypes". Sotheby's. 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Zest for Life". Design Indaba. 2005. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Campana Brothers' Celia Dining Suite with Blue Accents". Carter's Price Guide to Antiques and Collectables. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "The Latin American Design Foundation". Latin American Design Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 February 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ Godoy, Emiliano. "News". Godoylab. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
Further reading
- Campana, Humberto; Campana, Fernando. Campana Brothers: Complete Works (So Far). New York, 2010.
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