Brand Spotlight - Episode XXXII: BD Barcelona Design

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Since its origins in the 1970’s, BD has always been an atypical company. Its founders and still current owners, who come from an architectural background rather than the business field, have oriented BD’s production from the very start by cultivating beauty, in some cases above their function. Accompanied with artisanal processes instead of mass production, the new products always have more proximity to art than industrial design. Characterised by superior quality, short-series productions (and on occasion limited editions), and unique pieces due to crafted manufacturing. In the 80’s, BD pleasantly surprised by editing Gaudí’s furniture for his famous buildings and in the early 90’s, BD again astounded by introducing an exclusive first collection of furniture and lamps designed by Dalí. Recently the Collections and Designers with an accentuated artistic profile like Jaime Hayon and Doshi Levien, continue to point the way where design and art meet together.

The Showtime - Collection

The armchair and sofa are all made from rotomoulded polyethylene carrying Jaime Hayon’s unmistakable hallmark. A classic in BD’s catalogue and available in many different colors.

The Showtime Chair gives honour to the very name of this collection. Two distinct leg structures, optional armrests with a wide variety of finishes - wooden or lacquered in diverse colours and upholstered in different materials and leathers by BD, which avails all possible combinations and contrasts.

Dalilips

Bd Barcelona Design has the exclusive world marketing rights for Savador Dalì's furniture creations. This famous sofa in the shape of a mouth which the artist created together with Oscar Tusquets in 1972 for the Mae West room at the Dalí Museum in Figueres. More than thirty years had to pass before it became possible to put this sensual design into industrial production. Thanks to polyethylene rotational moulding technology using a special process which gives the piece a slightly delicate feel, it has been possible to reproduce the realism and expressive force which Dalí dreamt of for this large-scale mouth which you can sit on or sink into.

BD Love Lamp

This lamp is made from rotation-moulded polyethylene with an LED bulb. BD Barcelona Design continues with its labour of improving the quality of urban spaces by developing new designs and new concepts. Perfect for transit areas because cities too have evolved, and the dividing line between the space of public squares, airport terminals and shopping malls is ever more blurred.

Tout va Bien

Rarely does a graphic designer (two, in this case) go into the field of furniture design. We have to go far back in time to find them, to the times of the high and low reliefs. This is exactly what Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz have done, a couple of extraordinary Parisian graphic artists who sign their works as Antoine+Manuel. The sideboard they have designed for this new collection brought out by BD Barcelona Design is a surprising mixture of applied arts, hieroglyphic language, contemporary graphics, fantasy and optimism. It is produced with the quality of yesterday but using today’s technologies.

Monkey

Few pieces have achieved bestseller success and simultaneous publishing as this singular side table by Jaime Hayon. It is functional, has quality and a touch of humour, which is always welcome in the times we are living in. Made from architectonic concrete in grey or black. Grey finish is apt for indoor and outdoor.

Grasso

“Grasso is not fat. Grasso is more than fat. It’s overflowing.” This is how Stephen Burks sums up his new collection for BD. An armchair that pursues a visual “ultra-comfort”, and invites you to sit on it. The leather upholstery oozes over the bare iron structure to contrast with the most luxurious touch of the skin. Available in various structure and upholstery colors.

Gardenias

Jaime Hayon designed the Gardenia Vases in terracotta as a complement to his outdoor armchair selection. They are unique, having emerging forms and Hayon’s unmistakable hallmark of design.

Shiva

One of our favourite designs. It has been in production since 1973, and has converted into BD’s sign of identity all over the world. Sottsass designed the vase when travelling to Barcelona to meet up with a beautiful Catalan woman with whom he had fallen in love.

Happy Susto

Little decorative items have been part of BD’s catalogue since Ettore Sottsass drafted the Shiva vase back in 1973. Little architectural pieces is what the master called them, which have naturally paralleled larger furniture items, but not less important due to their size.

Projects

Pony Tale, Melbourne (Australia)

Shark Campus, Uilenstede (Amstelveen)

Stand Cadillac, IAA - Frankfurt

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BD Barcelona Grasso Stool

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BD Barcelona Grasso A

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BD Barcelona Happy Susto

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BD Barcelona Dalilips

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BD Barcelona Monkey

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BD Barcelona Gardenias 1

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BD Barcelona Gardenias 4

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BD Barcelona Showtime Sofa

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BD Barcelona Shiva

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