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Industrial design genius Konstantin Grcic has leant his hand to bd Barcelona and now offers Table B, the first piece to drop from the ‘Extrusions Collection’, a family of furniture synthesizing industrial aesthetics and manual processing. Drawing obvious visual inspiration from bd Barcelona’s Hypóstila shelving unit, a signature piece from the Spanish manufacturers 1970’s catalogue, Table B seems to transcend...

Martí Guixé: infamously the anti-designer, well-known for liking to shake up the order of things: "he likes to turn things round" - in his latest commission by BD he continues to do so.

Black is most definitely back!  You asked for it and you got it, the perennial favourite: CU-C-ME from HIVE is now available for the first time in black! We got so excited we wanted to showcase some of the other sleek black editions now also offered from our suppliers: bd Ediciones, VONDOM, EMU and Artifort.

One of the coolest websites around: COOL HUNTING recently featured an article on the "Spanish Seating Renaissance". We were chuffed (but not surprised) to note that accounting for over half the examples of good Spanish seating design are KE-ZU products...  Sitting pretty indeed!

JASON IS NOW A "DOT-COM" IN HIS OWN RIGHT!  CHECK OUT THE BLOG AND STYLE GALLERY OVER AT:  MR JASON GRANT.COM

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost... ..and so the rhyme goes, a ramshackle chain of events that ultimately see a battle lost and a kingdom conquered. Ok.... ok, so humour us for a moment: dismissing the tenuous shoe analogy and the context being that of a horse shoe, we can all concede (rather clumsily) that...

Design association RED in collaboration with ICEX, the Spanish Embassy's Economic and Commercial Office in New York and Surface Magazine, is running an exhibition lounge in the Grand Hotel Tribeca, New York City, comprising entirely Spanish products The event, which opened on the 13 May, coinciding with the ICFF fair, exhibits 16 Spanish companies:  including Bd Barcelona,  LZF Lamps...

The Milan 2010 Triennali heralded the arrival of the new:  Swarovski Elements at Work program.  An initiative that celebrates leading industrial designers by teaming them with acclaimed manufacturers and suppliers to produce product lines that incorporate Swarovski Elements in exciting, previously unused ways. The results are astounding. We are most excited about the collaboration between Neri & Hu, bd...

2010 looks also to be another big year  for one of our favourite Spanish designers: Jaime Hayón.  The self professed “designer artist” has been recognised "Designer of the Year of Scènes d’Intérieur", which this year is celebrating its twentieth anniversary within the Maison&Objet fair in Paris. Hayón worked for eight years at La Fabrica, the research centre founded by Oliverio...

When we thought on a phrase that defines what is BD, we came upon many different, but ultimately the one we chose was "BD is not a style". We can explain why, but it would be too obvious for anyone who knows us well. 07.Bd Newsletter