A recurring motif in the work of Linde Freya Tangelder is her sensible reflection on the architectural peculiarities that surround us. An attentiveness which in this case brought her to Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian-Brazilian architect who at the beginning of last century responded to the prevailing Brutalism with refreshingly organic forms and somehow managed to connect heaviness with lightness. More specifically, Linde Freya Tangelder focused on the SESC building in Pompeia near Sao Paulo, a context where she was struck by the unique interplay between the rigid concrete structure and the flowing, nearly fluid lines of its windows.

Drawing from that particular harmony between the frivolous and the strict, a series of side tables was formulated. Designs both honouring Bo Bardi's audacity and evoking new associations, which the designer refers to as 'brutal but delicate' and are expressed through the confrontation between the monumental and bold manifestation of the objects themselves and the manual and subtle finishing of their surfaces. Windows of Bo Bardi exists in three versions - tulip wood, lacquered wood and composite - and is also available in a larger version serving as a coffee table.

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