Interviews

Joan Gaspar, who was born in Barcelona in 1966, studied at Barcelona’s Artes y Oficios college. His entire career so far has been linked to the creation of new ranges of products for interior design companies.   

Jaime Tresserra Clapés, the only designer of the Tresserra Collection, was born in Barcelona in 1943 to a family of artists who instilled in him a very unusual sensibility still recognisable in his work today. After studying law, he became interested in various artistic disciplines taught at the Barcelona collage, Escuela Massana, then went immediately afterwards into the world of advertising. He finally took up architecture and interior design and started to create his first exclusive pieces of furniture for his clients.In 1987, this Catalan designer set up his own company, J Tresserra Design, which would later be renamed Tresserra Collection, and began to exhibit his work at international fairs where it was very well received. In 1994, he opened his own showroom in Barcelona and in 2005 his shop in Paris, situated opposite the Louvre.

Ramón Úbeda (born in Jaén, southern Spain in 1962) is –as Oscar Tusquets would say – an architect by training, journalist by profession and designer by vocation. He started out working in design in 1984 and now designs on all these fronts. As a graphic and furniture designer, he has won various prizes, among them several Laus awards from ADGFAD (the Spanish association of graphic designers and art directors) and a Delta prize from ADIFAD (the Association of Industrial Design Promotion of Decorative Arts). His designs have been exhibited in cities such as London, Milan, Lisbon, Athens, Helsinki, Moscow, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, Buenos Aires as well as in such prestigious insitutions as MOMA in New York, Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou and the Beijing World Art Museum in China.