BD Barcelona has unveiled a reissued collection of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí’s furniture pieces. Each design is an exact replica of Gaudí’s work, reproduced using traditional methods, highlighting the craftsmanship and beauty of the furniture's solid varnished oak.
Discover Antoni Gaudí furniture by BD Barcelona
Gaudí’s original designs were intended for two of his most notable projects in Barcelona: Casa Calvet, which was constructed between 1898 and 1899, and Casa Batlló, which was completed in 1906 (and recently opened a new art space).
Casa Calvet was Gaudí’s first residential project, and received a Best Building award from Barcelona City Council in 1900. Two years later, Gaudí designed the oak furniture for the ground-floor offices.
Unesco World Heritage Site Casa Batlló, on the city’s Passeig de Gràcia, was Gaudí's renovation of an urban house into one of the city’s most notable buildings, and he also designed a set of furniture for its dining room.
Both buildings acted as a canvas for the architect to create furniture that was dynamic, elegant and functional, while echoing the interior architecture.
The pieces sit between the baroque and the surreal, and comprise a range of seats and benches, a coat hanger and a mirror. They are an embodiment of Gaudí’s architecture: full of movement, with oak surfaces and chair legs twisting and entangling to evoke the shape of a tree and its branches. Each piece is unusual, rooting itself in the architect’s connection to nature.
Each reissue in the BD Barcelona ‘Gaudí’ collection comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the director of the Sagrada Família, Gaudí’s most famous work. The original furniture designs, meanwhile, are currently preserved at the Gaudí Museum in Park Güell.