Le Palace s'associe à Bd Barcelona Design pour célébrer le surréalisme.
For Art Basel Paris and the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto, Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris is joining Bd Barcelona Design for a ‘Surrealist Exhibition’, combining art and design, staged by the vibrant and flamboyant French interior designer Vincent Darré.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary exhibition of Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou this autumn, the exhibition features historic furniture by Salvador Dali, Antonio Gaudi and Oscar Tusquets.
BD Barcelona Design
Iconic Spanish brand BD Barcelona Design was founded in 1972 in a nightclub. The founders of BD – Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici and Lluís Clotet, members of Studio PER – were part of the culture on the dance floor.
As the regime made it difficult to import design objects from abroad, the founders of BD took it upon themselves to manufacture such pieces themselves, in a typically Catalan spirit. Many of the early products were highly utilitarian and showed a respect for design history – BD reproduced the chairs and tables of Art Nouveau architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, as well as Juan Gris’s first Cubist carpet design and Antoni Gaudí’s first series of furniture for Casa Calvet.
The company’s list of contemporary designers was equally impressive, including Salvador Dalí – Tusquets Blanca mined his friend’s sketchbooks for the most viable furniture projects, including the Dalilips sofa, a cherry-red pout you can sit on, the Leda armchair, which hugs you with its arm and hand, and a skin chair, which gives the impression that someone has been sitting in it for too long (Dalí called this effect invisible ‘characters’). Dalí’s anthropomorphic designs are the most extreme examples of BD Barcelona’s body-inspired pieces.
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí was one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century. The power and originality of his work remains as immediate and powerful today.
BD has organised the exclusive worldwide production and marketing of Dalí’s creations. They retain their functionality and remain expressive and faithful to his creations. Craftsmanship and high quality materials underline Dalí’s attention to detail and the depth of his creative spirit.
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) is one of Spain’s most internationally renowned architects, and his unorthodox approach is still considered revolutionary today.
He was closely involved in all the decorative elements of his projects, including furniture. BD understood the appreciation of modern designers for Gaudí’s furniture and was the first company to rescue these historic objects, creating a series of handcrafted reproductions using the same materials, solid lacquered oak, including a wealth of details used in the making of the originals.
Oscar Tusquets
Oscar Tusquets describes himself as an architect by training, a designer by adaptation, a painter by vocation and a writer by desire. Born in Barcelona in 1941, Oscar Tusquets graduated as an architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona in 1965 and was a member of the Studi Per, along with Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, Lluís Clotet and Mireia Riera. In 1972 they co-founded BD, and Tusquets began designing furniture and other objects that won the Spanish National Design Prize.
Several of his works are in the collections of prestigious museums such as the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has also been awarded the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts), the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) and the Creu de Sant Jordi (Cross of Sant Jordi). Since the 1990s, he has published books on a wide range of design-related subjects.
Informations:
From Thursday 10 October to Monday 4 November 2024
Lobby and public areas of Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris
Email: paris@raffles.com
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 99 88 00
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