"Brazil is everywhere," Casas says of the country's influence on his work. "It's very common in Brazil that you don't take things away, like small piece of marble, when cracked. They put everything together." The mosaic surface of his Tiles coffee table is an example of that approach to materials. Photo 2 of 5 in Mapping the Pan-American Influences of Architect Arthur Casas by Heather Corcoran

Mapping the Pan-American Influences of Architect Arthur Casas

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"Brazil is everywhere," Casas says of the country's influence on his work. "It's very common in Brazil that you don't take things away, like small piece of marble, when cracked. They put everything together." The mosaic surface of his Tiles coffee table is an example of that approach to materials.