Mariano Ferrer

Trained at the EINA design school in Barcelona, Mariano Ferrer began his career in the 1970s designing for the publisher Gris, alongside Carles Riart and Bigas Luna. Shortly after, he worked for several companies before cofounding Mobles 114 in 1973 with Josep Maria Massana and Josep Maria Tremoleda. The project—part showroom, part interior design studio, part furniture publisher—soon became a benchmark in contemporary Catalan design.

In 1981, Ferrer established his own studio and began working independently. Since then, he has built a body of work that is both honest and rigorous, where function and form are always closely aligned.

His pieces stand out for their economy of means and clarity of use, such as the Penjador Espiral (1970), the Farsiteu lectern (1990), the Lo magazine rack (1998), or the Gira lamp (1978), designed in collaboration with his Mobles 114 partners, Massana and Tremoleda.