BD Barcelona
BD Barcelona Design (originally BD Ediciones de Diseño) is a Spanish furniture and design brand, founded in 1972 in Barcelona. The founding legend is part of design history: a group of young architects — members of Studio PER: Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici and Lluís Clotet, joined by interior designer Mireia Riera — decided one night at the Club Boccaccio (the "B" stood not for Barcelona but for Boccaccio, a gathering place for Barcelona's left-wing intellectuals in the waning Franco era) to start a design brand. The trigger: no Spanish manufacturer was willing to produce their designs. So they produced them themselves — with waterbeds, cardboard mock-ups and "hermaphrodite cushions" as their first output. In 2022, for the 50th anniversary, a new collective ownership took a majority stake: Omar Sosa, Nacho Alegre, Marco Velardi (Apartamento), Pablo Bofill, Hernán Cortés (Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura) and Igor Urdampilleta (Arquitectura-G). Oscar Tusquets remains actively involved. Awards: Premio Nacional de Diseño, Spain 1989; European Community Design Prize 1990.
BD Barcelona's unique position rests on the combination of contemporary design icons and authorised re-editions of furniture designed by Antoni Gaudí for his own buildings (Calvet chair, Calvet table — exclusive worldwide), as well as limited editions after designs by Salvador Dalí (Dalilips loveseat, 1972; further pieces). Additional historical designers: Ettore Sottsass (Shiva vase, 1973), Javier Mariscal, Ross Lovegrove, Alfredo Häberli, Alessandro Mendini, Konstantin Grcic. Contemporary: Jaime Hayon (Gardenias, Monkey, Low Lounger, Tria and others; long-standing key partnership), Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Max Lamb, Philippe Malouin, Sam Chermayeff. BD Art Editions: limited art editions (including Dalí, Gaudí). Products: sofas, chairs, tables, lighting, accessories, street furniture, outdoor.
For architects and interior designers who seek design history alongside avant-garde expression, BD Barcelona is the only Spanish brand with international weight in design publishing — uniquely positioned between art production, historic masterworks and contemporary design discourse.
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BD Barcelona
BD Barcelona Design (originally BD Ediciones de Diseño) is a Spanish furniture and design brand, founded in 1972 in Barcelona. The founding legend is part of design history: a group of young architects — members of Studio PER: Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici and Lluís Clotet, joined by interior designer Mireia Riera — decided one night at the Club Boccaccio (the "B" stood not for Barcelona but for Boccaccio, a gathering place for Barcelona's left-wing intellectuals in the waning Franco era) to start a design brand. The trigger: no Spanish manufacturer was willing to produce their designs. So they produced them themselves — with waterbeds, cardboard mock-ups and "hermaphrodite cushions" as their first output. In 2022, for the 50th anniversary, a new collective ownership took a majority stake: Omar Sosa, Nacho Alegre, Marco Velardi (Apartamento), Pablo Bofill, Hernán Cortés (Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura) and Igor Urdampilleta (Arquitectura-G). Oscar Tusquets remains actively involved. Awards: Premio Nacional de Diseño, Spain 1989; European Community Design Prize 1990.
BD Barcelona's unique position rests on the combination of contemporary design icons and authorised re-editions of furniture designed by Antoni Gaudí for his own buildings (Calvet chair, Calvet table — exclusive worldwide), as well as limited editions after designs by Salvador Dalí (Dalilips loveseat, 1972; further pieces). Additional historical designers: Ettore Sottsass (Shiva vase, 1973), Javier Mariscal, Ross Lovegrove, Alfredo Häberli, Alessandro Mendini, Konstantin Grcic. Contemporary: Jaime Hayon (Gardenias, Monkey, Low Lounger, Tria and others; long-standing key partnership), Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Max Lamb, Philippe Malouin, Sam Chermayeff. BD Art Editions: limited art editions (including Dalí, Gaudí). Products: sofas, chairs, tables, lighting, accessories, street furniture, outdoor.
For architects and interior designers who seek design history alongside avant-garde expression, BD Barcelona is the only Spanish brand with international weight in design publishing — uniquely positioned between art production, historic masterworks and contemporary design discourse.