BD Barcelona - Art Edition
Design meets art
BD Barcelona is one of the world's unique brands in the field of artistic interior design. In contrast to mass production, BD Barcelona focuses on handcrafted artifacts, limited editions, design classics and furniture works of art. The Art Edition of BD Barcelona includes handcrafted art objects - exclusive, unique and of timeless elegance and value. As an official partner of BD Barcelona , TAGWERC offers the original designs from the Art Edition of BD Barcelona both online and offline.
Barcelona as a base
In the early 1970s, architecture students Pep Bonet, Christian Cirici, LLuís Clotet, Mireia Riera and Óscar Tusquets Blanca meet in the trendy Boccacio nightclub in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona. The five Spaniards are united by their background and profession. Together, they want to produce furniture designs by outstanding designers and artists using craftsmanship - away from the mainstream. The name is quickly found and is based on that of the nightclub: "Boccacio Design". This was later changed to "BD Ediciones de Diseño". Today, the company trades under the name "BD Barcelona Design".
Salvador Dalí's sofa
BD Barcelona 's relationship with the art world is deeply rooted in the Spanish company's beginnings, starting in 1972 with one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Salvador Dalí. Between 1972 and 1974, the Spanish master worked with Óscar Tusquets to develop the "Saliva sofa", the legendary art sofa inspired by the lips of the American film actress Mae West - actually Mary Jane West. The first prototype was created in 1973 and although the sofa was conceived as a limited series from the outset, it was not (yet) produced as such. It would not become available as the "Dalilips" sofa until thirty years later. And other pieces of furniture by the Spanish grand master Dalí, designed for the French furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, were only added to the exclusive repertoire of BD Barcelona in the 1990s, including the "Leda Low Table" and "Leda Chair".
Sottsass Shiva
In the early days, however, the furniture manufacturer initially devoted itself to the development of several designs by another up-and-coming designer, Ettore Sottsass. The "Mettsass table" was created in the same year the company was founded, followed a year later by the "Shiva Vase", which is still one of BD Barcelona's most memorable artefacts today - probably due to its phallus-like shape.
Modernist furniture
Two years later, in 1975, it is the furniture of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí that calls for the holistic development work of BD Barcelona . Furniture designed by Antoni Gaudi for his houses Casa Batlló and Casa Calvet is manufactured using exactly the same elaborate production processes that were used to produce the first pieces at the time. In addition to the chairs named after the houses "Batlló Chair" and "Calvet Chair" named after the houses, the "Calvet Mirror" and the "Calvet Wall Wardrobe", it is above all stylistic elements such as door handles, door handles and peepholes, so-called "spies", that allow Gaudí's unique "Modernisme" design style, a Spanish variation of Art Nouveau, to be experienced within one's own four walls.
Painting with figure
The launch of Salvador Dalí's furniture and lighting collection in 1991 undoubtedly marks a unique milestone in the history of design, which is linked to BD Barcelona and was made possible by the Catalan company. For the very first time, objects from pictures designed by Dalí were given a form and even a function for use as furnishings. A unique approach for objects of fine art such as sculptures or paintings. Never before has furniture made from paintings been given a shape and even a function. Achievements such as the lamb "Xai", the "Invisible Personage Chair", the "Portlligat sunbed", the lights "Cajones Lamp", "Muletas Lamp" and "Bracelli Lamp" and the sofa "Vis-à-vis de Gala" are certainly due to the friendly relationship between Salvador Dalí and Óscar Tusquets and the talent of Robert Descharnes and Joaquim Camps.
Art Edition from BD Barcelona
The objects from BD Barcelona, which are offered at TAGWERC Design STORE and belong to the "BD Barcelona Art Edition", are closer to art than to product design. The BD Barcelona objects offered by TAGWERC are made by hand in limited small editions only after they have been ordered and exclusively for the customer. They are unique furnishing objects, far removed from machine-produced and stocked mass-produced goods. Over the years, the great artists of yesterday have been joined at BD Barcelona by today's well-known greats such as Fernando and Humberto Campana, Stephen Burks, Jaime Hayon, Doshi Levien and Ross Lovegrove.
To this day, BD Barcelona has remained true to its home city of Barcelona and the ambitious manufacturing maxims have been maintained. BD Barcelona at TAGWERC: "Design meets art".
