Hugo França: The Story of the Tree Apparel and designers’ studios

and designers’ studios

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli

Piero Gilardi

Dan Dailey

and the gallery’s passion for so-called “difficult” design

Hugo França: The Story of the Tree Apparel and designers’ studiosBrazilian artist Hugo Franas work is a potent reminder that magnificent objects can be fashioned from cast offs. This catalog was published by R & Company when Franas work was exhibited at the gallery in 2008. For the past 30 years, Hugo Frana has been creating monumental furniture and sculptural pieces from the remnants of the gigantic hardwood tree called Pequi, which he harvests from the fields and forests of south Bahia in Brazil. This publication