The Sergio Rodrigues Institute (Rio de Janeiro, since 2012) is a non-profit organization aimed at preserving the collection of the master and making his entire body of work available to the general public, as well as promoting and encouraging knowledge and dialogue about Brazilian architecture and design in contemporary times. In this 2025 edition of […]
Mar 2024
Exhibition at MoMA: Crafting Modernity: Design na América Latina, 1940–1980
Organized by Ana Elena Mallet, guest curator, and Amanda Forment, Assistant Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibition presents the sometimes conflicting visions of modernity proposed by designers of domestic environments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela between 1940 and 1980. […]
Jul 2017
Exhibition at Casa e Forma
Several documents, pictures, drawings and sketches from the Sergio Rodrigues Institute are being presented in the exhibition that the Casa e Forma store is presenting in its Petrópolis showroom.
May 2017
Exhibition in New York
The Espasso gallery in New York celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Mole armchair and presents an exhibition with versions of the piece and several images and sketches from Instituto Sergio Rodrigues. The exhibition runs until June 16.
Jan 2017
No, it’s not easy
It was 1957 and the photographer Otto Stupakoff, then installed in Rio de Janeiro, ordered a comfortable sofa from his friend and architect Sergio Rodrigues, where he could “laze” in his studio on Rua Sambaíba, in Leblon. History is known, but it deserves to be remembered because it also made History: from “Sofazão do Otto”, […]
Nov 2014
Sergio Rodrigues in Ipanema
The Arquivo Contemporâneo store participates in the 2014 Rio Design Week – from November 5 to 8 – with a great tribute to Sergio Rodrigues (1927-2014) in Ipanema. Created by Fernando Mendes, the new display window reproduces the famous studio of Petrópolis where the master worked for ten years. Highlights are his first and latest […]
Sep 2014
Dpot pays tribute to the master
The São Paulo Dpot store pays tribute to Sergio Rodrigues with a retrospective of his creations. Curated by Baba Vacaro, the exhibition features a timeline of the major events in the master’s life, some of his most significant pieces, and even fragments of furniture, his clippings and his fittings, all illustrating the designer’s constructive thinking. […]
