Gabriel Teixidó

GABRIEL TEIXIDÓ (Barcelona, 1947) for Fase.
Arpón" table lamp, 1973.
Lacquered steel.
White plastic base.
Measurements: 66 x 80 x 20 cm.

Table lamp designed by Gabriel Teixidó, for Fase. With a minimalist aesthetic, energetic and bold, this lamp in chromed steel is innovative and daring in its design, dominated by an elongated lampshade whose slanted top remembers a harpoon. Small upper hollows provide a subsidiary filter of light. The result is a real play of shapes between the slender cylindrical stem, the square base in white and the original shade.

Gabriel Teixidó trained at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos in Barcelona and then set up 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 or 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".