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Campana Brothers: Aquário

For BD Barcelona, the Brazilian duo created a sideboard made of ash wood and green glass doors. Glass shelves inside the buffet avoid cutting the light. #MDW2016

“We have been in touch with BD Barcelona Design’s art director Ramón Úbeda for a couple of years now. We discussed ideas that have matured and resulted into the buffet we crafted. We were inspired by the idea of an Aquarium to create this piece,” explains Fernando Campana.

Humberto continues: “We love to create hybrids using two different materials; a warm one and a cold one. It has become part of our design language. I wanted to play with the idea of opposite weights too; the lightness of the glass and the massiveness of the wood. The immaterialness of the first one and the physicalness of the second one”.

And Fernando adds: “The sideboard is made out of ash wood and green glass doors. There are glass shelves inside the buffet in order to avoid cutting the light and the transparency of the material. Two different color versions will be available.”

BD Barcelona Design is the Spanish editor of furniture with the most international prestige. Founded in 1972, its catalogue features designs from the most important contemporary creators including Alfredo Häberli, Jaime Hayon, Konstantin Grcic, Ross Lovegrove and Doshi Levien, as well historic names such as Gaudí and artists of the calibre of Salvador Dalí. During its long existence, BD has been recognised by the Spanish Premio Nacional de Diseño (1989), the European Community Design Prize (1990) and the Red Dot Design Award ‘Best of the best’ in 2011.