B.d Ediciones de Diseño, a Spanish furniture and furniture manufacturer it is now trading as b.d barcelona design.
Beginnings
Oscar Tusquets, Lluis Clotet, Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, and Xavier Carulla, among others, founded B.d Ediciones de Disefio in 1972. Many of Tusquets’ furniture and product designs, as well as those of others at the time, were deemed too risky by other Spanish manufacturers.
The initials’ B.d’ stood for Boccaccio Disefio, a reference to Oriol Regas, the firm’s chief banker and entertainment tycoon, whose numerous businesses were known as ‘Boccaccio.’
B.D. Ediciones de Disefio started as a retail sales showroom for Studio-PER members’ furniture and reproductions of Alvar Aalto, Eileen Gray, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s pieces. To promote contemporary architecture in Barcelona, lectures and exhibits were held in the retail space and a public library was created for this purpose. The firm is located in Casa Thomas, designed by Lluis Domenech I Montaner in 1898.
Works
Among the company offerings, the 1980 Duplex stool by Javier Mariscal (with Pepe Cortés), the 1983 Arana lamp by Cortés and Mariscal, and the 1988 Coqueta chair by Pete Sans.
Sources
Byars, M., & Riley, T. (2004). The design encyclopedia. Laurence King Publishing.
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