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DESIGN SINCE 1972
Pioneers
of Spanish Design
BD has been around for over half a century. It was
founded in a nightclub in 1972 by a bunch of young
architects and designers from Barcelona. They
broke into the design world with a new vision: to
produce and market their designs, and the designs
of their friends with complete creative freedom
and design criteria. Beginning with the designs of
Ettore Sottsass and Álvaro Siza, BD provoked a
curiosity about design. These early pieces helped
bring international recognition to the country’s
design scene, and many of them still exist today.
50 years later, we are an international design
company run by a new collective ownership — all
architects, publishers and designers— along with
one of the founders, Oscar Tusquets. This group
fosters the same nonconformist spirit BD has had
since its beginnings. Expressing the diversity of the
world and its values. We are now focus on bringing
BD’ history into the future by expanding our design
dialogue to delve into diverse realms of creativity.
In design and in everything we do.
