CORSINI & MILLET
Barba Corsini (1916-2008) was a leading functionalist architect who won international praise for his architecture and his design for La Pedrera in Barcelona. He 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 Collection.
REVIVAL
During the restoration of La Pedrera in 1991, Ruiz Millet discovered the beauty of the great floor lamp PD2 and rescued it from being thrown away. He started to collaborate with Corsini in order to relaunch the original designs designed for La Pedrera.
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
While Grossman is the architect behind more than 15 homes spanning the globe from California to Sweden, she is most noted for her industrial designs where the Gräshoppa Floor Lamp and Cobra Table Lamp belongs to the most famous works. Grossman's work often appeared in Arts & Architecture magazine and was exhibited at museums such as Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the National Museum in Stockholm throughout the 1940s and ’50s - her Cobra Lamp was even recognized with a Good Design Award in 1950.