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DESIGN SINCE 1972
Pioneers
of Spanish Design
We are an international design company run by a
collective ownership —Apartamento Magazine
(Nacho Alegre, Omar Sosa, Marco Velardi),
Taller Bofill (Pablo Bofill, Ricardo Bofill, Luna
Paiva, Hernán Cortés) and Igor Urdampilleta
from Arquitectura-G— 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.
