Exhibition Details

For those unfamiliar with lagranja design, it is a noted multidisciplinary studio that invents, refines, and produces objects and furniture for each of its interior design projects. Over the studio’s 20 years, from Barcelona, they have designed and dressed spaces all over the world. A hybrid architectural studio and atelier, with the workshop as the permanent nerve centre for experimentation, their trademark is observation, fun, innovation, and play. With these concepts in mind, lagranja designed three new collections to celebrate its 20th anniversary: three types of seating that are a response to the challenge verbalized by il·lacions gallery founder Xavier Franquesa of introducing them to ‘collectable design’. The ‘Dice’ chairs are pure poetry, they represent the play and freedom of creation. A collection made up of two unique chairs constructed from a tubular metal structure with a covering of 3,527 die, each measuring 16x16mm. The unit price is €6,000. At a time when packaging is omnipresent and is inordinately prominent, the ‘Jarvis’ stools convert it into furniture. Produced by hand using recycled paper pulp, this is a limited collection of 50 pieces in 3 colours. The raw material, once processed with water and glue, forms a highly resistant unit thanks to its geometry which includes a reinforcing central rib. The unit price is €250. The ‘Chaise Longue’ evokes the future and the use of new technologies. Born from the wish to reuse the disposable scaffolding that supports items produced using 3D printing, the ‘Chaise Longue’ is pure support without parts. Large in scale, its printing is a mixture of PLA pellets and cellulose, a singular finish for this museum-worthy piece. The unit price is €9,000. Back & Forth will also include models of other seating pieces created over the years: some iconic, such as the ‘Belloch’ chair and the collections Basic and Bold, and others that were never produced serially. A journey through prototypes that reveals the working process, the successes and the dead ends.