Carles Riart

Name: Carles Riart
SKU: CARLI

Esperança Rabat

Carles Riart (1944) is one of the leading Catalan designers of the second half of the 20th century. An atypical creator, Riart has sought to be a design craftsman, with singular furnishings that he conceived away from market trends and fashions: are interpretation of the traditional. In this way, he has broken with the austerity of the functionalism that dominated his early career and revived the taste for furnishings based on sensuality and imagination, furnishings that can stir one's emotions.

Code: CARLI

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Publisher Santa & Cole

2001. Bilingual (English / Spanish)

28.6 x 24 cm | 11.154" x 9.36"

160 pages, 140 Ilustrations, Paperback

ISBN 978-84-8301-478-5

Esperança Rabat is an art historian and visual artist. She has worked as an art and design critic and written articles, publications and books. She has also curated a number of exhibitions and taught art and design classes at Eina and ESDI. She is the co-creator, together with Marta Barangé, of a tray producedby the Italian firm Alessi in 1992. She was a member of the ADI FAD board between 1987 and 1990 and of the FAD’s Steering Committee between 1990 and 1997.

Esperança Rabat, graduated from Barcelona's Universitat Autònoma with a degree in Art History. She also studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the EINA Design School. She has worked as art and design critic for such newspapers as "El Món", "La Vanguardia" and El Mundo, among other general and specialised publications. She is the author of several editions of "Anuari del Disseny a Catalunya", published by Fundació BCD, and a book "Plural Design", (ADP, Ediciones del Serbal). She has curated several exhibitions, including "Regenerar, suggerir. Carles Riart. Mobles i dibuixos", 1969-1995, (Barcelona, 1995). She has taught art and design at DIAC, EINA and ESDI.

Together with Marta Barangé, she won the international competition "Contenitori di Memoria" with a tray produced in 1992 by the Italian firm Alessi. She was a member of the ADI FAD Board of Directors from 1987 to 1990 and the FAD Executive Committee from 1990 to 1997.

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Publisher Santa & Cole

2001. Bilingual (English / Spanish)

28.6 x 24 cm | 11.154" x 9.36"

160 pages, 140 Ilustrations, Paperback

ISBN 978-84-8301-478-5

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