Óscar Tusquets

ÓSCAR TUSQUETS I BLANCA (Barcelona, 1941) for Casas.
Dining table "Alada", 1988.
Glass top.
Aluminum foot.
Shows signs of use and wear.
Measurements: 71 x 285 x 132 cm.

Dining table with a daring postmodern aesthetic, designed by Oscar Tusquets and manufactured by Casas in 1985. Tusquets set himself the challenge of designing a table whose legs would not get in the way when people sat around it. Initially it was to complement the Varius chair, which he presented the previous year. The glass top is acid-etched with linear patterns. Its combos sides can accommodate up to ten chairs. The ensemble boasts an organic-inspired aesthetic (suggesting a "winged" creature), but at the same time its structure is reduced to geometric elements.

Óscar Tusquets is an architect, painter and designer, trained at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona and the ETSAB. In 1964 he founded Studio PER with Lluís Clotet, with whom he collaborated regularly until 1984. During this period he participated in the enlargement of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona (1980) and in the remodeling of the Palau de la Música Catalana (1982). In 1987 he teamed up with the architect Carlos Díaz, with whom he carried out projects in various countries, including Japan and Germany. He has been awarded the Delta de Oro del FAD prize on several occasions, and in 1987 he received the Sant Jordi Cross.