From left to right, Cristian Cirici,
Lluís Clotet, Oscar Tusquets and
Pep Bonet, BD founders. Portrait
taken by Colita in front of the
facade of the COAC in Barcelona.
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DESIGN SINCE 1972
Pioneers
of Spanish Design
We are an international design company run by a
collective ownership —Apartamento Magazine,
Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Luna Paiva, Hernán
Cortés and Igor Urdampilleta— 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. Our independence as a company
fuels our intentions and supports this purpose. We
are now expanding our design dialogue to delve
into diverse realms of creativity, in design and in
everything we do.
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 contemporaries like Ettore Sottsass,
Rennie Mackintosh 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.
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