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Antoni de Moragas

Santiago Roqueta

Biographies

Santiago Roqueta

Santiago Roqueta, PhD in Architecture, professor of Drawing and director of the ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture), was an industrial designer, interior designer and artist. Roqueta played a crucial role in establishing the concept of good design in Barcelona. He created the furniture editing company Snark Design, which became part of Santa & Cole at the end of the 1980s. He also designed unique clubCarles Riarts and restaurants with the aim of revitalising Barcelona. In addition, Roqueta was the driving force behind the book publishing project between Santa & Cole and ETSAB to disseminate the work of the pioneering masters of Spanish design.

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| 1991
Design Biographies

From the design perspective, this monographic study seeks to evoke and defend the enormous contribution made by Antoni de Moragas (1913-1985) to the modernisation of Catalonia from the years following the Spanish Civil War to the explosive 1980s. His position as a founding member of Grupo R, creator of the ADIFAD (Industrial Designers Association), President of the FAD (Promotion of Decorative Arts) and vice-secretary of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC) all go to show the undeniable importance of Moragas in the development of Catalan architecture, urban planning and design.
In the early years of his career, Antoni de Moragas felt that everything was yet to be invented. True to his militant pragmatism and a believer in a type of self-sufficient design, he created the most common elements, starting with those which he needed for his own home. Despite their rationalistic appearance, the objects created by Moragas reach beyond the strictly functional towards an intentional ethical or aesthetic surprise.

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ISBN: 84-7368-119-3
Santiago Roqueta – 1991
Spanish/ English
Hardcover, 28.6 cm x 24 cm / 11.26″ x 9.45″
160 pp
103 b/w ilustrations

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