Gabriel Teixidó

GABRIEL TEIXIDÓ (Barcelona, 1947) for Carpyen.
Floor lamp, ca. 1980.
Black lacquered steel
Halogen lighting and light regulating foot switch.
Measurements: 180 x 45 x 30 cm.

Floor lamp designed by Gabriel Teixidó, in collaboration with the Valencian designer Carlos Serra, for Carpyen. With a minimalist, light and bold design, this lamp is an exercise in balance and creativity. With an inverted Y shape, the stem rests on a ball that acts as a stop on the floor, and ends with a rectangular conical lampshade. A real game of shapes and weights that is completed by a double structure with a circular bar ending on the ground.

Gabriel Teixidó trained at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos in Barcelona and later established himself as a freelance in 1970. Throughout his career he has collaborated with companies such as Andreu World, Kendo Mobiliario, Enea, Oken, Joker, Grassoler, Santa&Cole, Disform, Grupo T, Interi, Aridi, Biok, Point, Levesta and Permasa. He has been awarded two SIDI prizes for the Bolero chair in 1986 (Gasisa) and the Columba lamp in 1987 (Carpyen Iluminación), Delta de Plata prizes from ADI-FAD in 1997 for the HI-FI lamp (Carpyen Iluminación) and more recently in 1997 the Truck table from the company Aridi and the Apta chair from Andreu World were also selected as finalists in the ADI-FAD prizes. He defines himself as a designer who is "quite" industrial, and is not influenced by fashions. The designer himself says "what interests me is that my designs are useful, that people feel comfortable with them, that they are a help".