Ronald Sasson is a Brazilian designer and artist born in Curitiba in 1967 and based in Gramado, in southern Brazil. His work draws on the Brazilian modernist tradition and pursues timelessness in both form and material, across limited editions and industrial design. He has received 36 international design awards, including five iF and nine Good Design awards.
For Riva 1920 he designed the Palio Lounge Chair, a sculptural monolith carved from a single block of solid cedar. Its curvilinear seat flows into the backrest, the result of a study of how near-kinetic circular forms act on raw volumes of wood.
