BD
GAULINETTA
Designed by Oscar Tusquets in 1987 and inspired by Antonio Gaudí and Carlo Mollino, the Gaulino chair paired a contoured wooden frame with slender, tapering legs and smooth leather. The Gaulinetta is its evolution, reduced armrests for a sleeker frame that tucks easily under a table, suited to smaller dining spaces. As Tusquets explained, « In homage to Enzo Mari, who called his chair Tonietta, a derivative of Thonet, I’ve called this chair Gaulinetta, after the Gaulino. » The wood used in this piece is FSC certified.
About the brand
BD is a furniture design company from Barcelona, comprised of architects, publishers, and designers unbound by conventional market rules. Since 1972, it has been fostering progress and generating awareness about the potential of design, expressing the diversity of the world and its values. (designer) Oscar Tusquets describes himself as an architect by training, a designer by adaptation, a painter by vocation, and a writer through the desire to make friends. Born in Barcelona in 1941, Oscar Tusquets graduated as an architect in 1965 from Barcelona’s Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura and was a member of Studi Per, together with Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, Lluís Clotet, and Mireia Riera. In 1972, they founded BD together, and Tusquets set about designing furniture and other objects, which would be recognised by the Spanish National Design Award.
