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Milan 2013: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón presents aluminium and terracotta outdoor furniture designed for BD Barcelona Design in this movie. The collection went on show at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier today.

Jaime Hayon‘s Gardenias collection is part of an ongoing collaboration with Catalan furniture brand BD Barcelona Design. “The story with BD Barcelona starts back in 2004,” says Hayón in the movie. “At that time I’d never really designed a chair, I was doing more art work. When we met for the first time we wanted to create something that had to be fun.”

The new collection, entitled Gardenias, includes cast aluminium seating in muted colours and terracotta vessels with small hoods.

Armchairs and benches in the collection have slatted backs, with some extending over to form canopies. Hayón explains: “For some reason in the history of making chairs for terraces or outdoor spaces we’ve lost the glamour, we’ve lost the passion for delicacy.”

The chairs have padded seats and backs, with aluminium tubes that loop around to form armrests and flick out to create feet. “We have worked with aluminium in the way you would work with wood,” adds Hayón.

Shelving units in a similar style consist of three semi-circular platforms that sit under a half dome.

Other items in the range include handmade terracotta flower pots in a selection of smooth sculptural shapes and a white watering can with two golden handles and a golden spout.

Hayón previosuly created 40 hand-painted vases for the brand’s 40th birthday and has previously exhibited tubular furniture for Sé.

More furniture collections on show in Milan include Rem Koolhaas’ rotating, sliding and motorised pieces for Knoll and items with golden noses for handles by Studio Job.

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News: Spanish design brand BD Barcelona Design has commissioned designer Jaime Hayon to hand-paint 40 unique vases in celebration of its 40th birthday.

“We wanted to produce a piece to celebrate our 40th anniversary and we thought Jaime was one of the best designers to do a special collection,” BD Barcelona Design founder Jordi Arnau told Dezeen. “He proposed to do a hand-painted vase using a piece from the Showtime collection, hand-painted with 40 different designs.”

Jaime Hayon decorated each of the white porcelain vases with black enamel, incorporating a number from one to 40 into each design, Arnau explained. “He went in October to the factory in northern Italy to paint them. This is the only product we don’t produce in Spain.”

“Jaime is an artist who works between art and design, and this has more and more demand in the world,” continued Arnau. “BD is well known for its historic collaborations with artists like Salvador Dali so this made sense for us.”

BD Barcelona Design was the first design brand in Spain and was established at a time when Spain was isolated from the rest of the world under the Franco dictatorship. The company began producing and importing classic pieces by designers including Antoni Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh as well as collaborating with figures including Salvador Dali.

In recent years the brand has collaborated with designers including Konstantin Grcic, Doshi Levien and NHDRO. See all our stories about products from BD Barcelona Design.

Hayon created his first project for BD Barcelona Design – a mail box – in 2003 while working as head of the research department at Benetton’s creative research centre Fabrica in Italy. A year later he returned to Barcelona and set up his own studio, designing the Showtime vases for BD Barcelona Design alongside projects for clients including Camper, Lladró and Bisazza. See all our stories about design by Jaime Hayon.

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