Gabriel Teixidó

Gabriel Teixidó assisted the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos of Barcelona. After some years working on plastic arts, Teixidó started the decade of the 70s working freelance in industrial design. Teixidó is renown for changing his ideas into commercial lasting successes, a talent that he usually confers to his artistic training and to his ability to detect problems that have never been solved and to find infallible solutions: “I am interested in making useful designs, in making people feel comfortable with them, to make them helpful.” Teixidó works on his own, and makes austere designs, far away from formal exhibitionism. His work has been acknowledged with two SIDI awards, for the Bolero chair and the Columba lamp, with a Nuevo Estilo award in 1995 for the Amplia bookshelf, and with two Delta de Plata awards for the Canaletas winerack in 1992 and the HI-FI lamp in 1997. One of the most important area Teixidó has worked on is office equipment. He seeks to create pieces of furniture that will bring a certain domestic warmth, but without great technical complications that would make them more expensive. In this field, he has worked for many different companies. “I think that what turns out to be erroneous are gratuitous forms. I have realized that what really works in the world of furniture is the usual things. I have never been obsessed with being on a design encyclopaedia, and I think that I am already late to be on one of them”. Well, Gabriel, now you are on it.