Founded by Lina Bo and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi in 1950, the Brazilian magazine Habitat (“The magazine of the arts in Brazil”) manifested a vision for a modern culture in which all disciplines – from art to design, from dance to fashion, from photography to crafts – could convene to shape a new human environment centred on a sense of “dignity, morality of life and, therefore, spirituality and culture”.

Habitat‘s disruptively new aesthetic model was based on the association of features on modern architecture and arts with thoughts on Brazilian culture and its pre-modern, folkloric products. One example of such an ethnographic take is the following series of etchings depicting stylized faces on stones, created by indigenous populations from Brazil, (referred to as “Indian” in the original article. )

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