20.12.2005
Pedro Useche

Ethel Leon

Pedro Useche graduated architect at the Central University of Caracas, Venezuela. In Brazil since 1984, began to design and produce, in a small workshop, furniture with different finishes and many welding jobs, as the Chair Woman, his first creation publicly recognized. With the need to store the components later he became an expert on projects made for large production. Furniture like the Flexus Line and the chair 20R reduces to a minimum the materials, exploring their resistance. The 20R has laths with only 3mm thickness and supports the weight of a person and get movement, adapting to the body with comfort. PacMan has its structure made of MDF, material widely used for revetments.

Awards (the first, in 1998, at the Museu da Casa Brasileira Award with magazine rack Eixo 7) and exhibitions are succeeding and the own store at Morumbi - whose architectural design is signed by Useche - seems small to accommodate more than two hundred items, including bookshelves, chairs, tables, trimmers and small objects such as chandeliers and trays. One of his projects, the chair Costela, was sold exclusively for jewelers network H. Stern. As reducing components and costs, the designer was discovered by large companies. The line of chairs and benches TAK was commercialized by retail network Tok & Stok.

Source: Design Brasileiro - quem fez, quem faz - Publishing house Senac