Apartment 61 is an experimental gallery apartment designed by MNMA Studio in reverence to mid-century Brazilian furniture manufacturers Forma and L’Atelier. The 100 sqm São Paulo residence is one of the city’s first modernist houses, built by artist Victor Brecheret around 1939 and later renovated by architect Rino Levi. The site is now operated as a ‘gallery house’ curated by the couple André Visockis and Vivian Lobato, displaying a refined collection of furniture and catering to avid collectors from all over the world.

Design and decor elements within Apartment 61 traverse the modernist movement that have shaped São Paulo’s architecture throughout the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. MNMA didn’t aim for historical recreation, rather paying homage to the Forma and L’Atelier factories that opened in the 1950s through the study of furniture, photos, files, and testimonies.