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Tensioned canvas and hand-worked wood pay quiet tribute to the mestres d’aixa—coastal boatbuilders who shaped vessels from timber, by hand. Barceloneta carries the breeze of a Mediterranean evening and the spirit of two young designers, Correa and Milá. It’s a rationalist gandula—a chair for unwinding without fuss. In Catalan, a gandul is someone who leans into idleness, who lets time pass without remorse. In that gentle surrender lies the duo’s modern reinterpretation of popular traditions—the humble fishing chairs and the street-side gatherings of neighbors in old coastal towns, who brought their seats outside in the evening to catch the breeze and talk with anyone passing by. This chair celebrates that kind of everyday ease—human, social, and designed for good use.
This chair was born from a real commission. Architect José Antonio Coderch asked his young apprentices, Correa and Milá, to design furniture for the Casa de la Marina, a social housing project in the working-class Barceloneta district of Barcelona. They named it after the neighborhood, not just because that’s where the building stood, but as a playful nod to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair, crafted in steel and leather and always well beyond what a fisherman could afford. Senators and fishermen—or fishermen seated like senators.
As Coderch once put it, “we need architects (…) with a rope tied to their foot, so they can’t drift too far from the land where they have roots, or from the people they know best—always grounded in a firm base of dedication, goodwill, and honesty.” As his disciples, we can say that this became the guiding principle behind the design of the Barceloneta chair.
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Product adaptations
We offer the possibility of adapting our products to the requirements of your contract project, modifying them to your needs. All customisations shall be studied upon request respecting the minimum quantity required. Contact us for customisations inqueries.
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