Barba Corsini

Barba Corsini (1916-2008) was a leading functionalist architect who won international praise for his architecture and his design for La Pedrera building in Barcelona. Corsini was strongly inspired by German architect, Mies van der Rohe and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He also had a great affinity to Finnish architecture, which he believed to be the finest in Europe on account of the powerful simplicity of the designs. ‘Powerful simplicity’ is perhaps an apt description of Corsini’s personal design style, as represented by the Pedrera series. 

Many architects and furniture designers of the Bauhaus era were intent on providing well-designed homes and impeccably manufactured furnishings for the “common man”. In 1955, Barba Corsini, a leading functionalist architect, realised his contemporary vision through his renovation of the loft space and the furnishings he custom designed for “La Pedrera” building designed by the master of Spanish modernism Antoni Gaudí.

The Pedrera lamps - originally designed for the apartments in La Pedrera - are both modern and classic. Some of the lamps were designed by Barba Corsini himself, others in association with his protegé, Joaquim Ruiz Millet. One lamp, the ABC Table Lamp, was designed by Ruiz Millet as a tribute to Corsini.