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Antoni Roselló was an industrial designer from Barcelona. Throughout his career, he collaborated with various architecture studios exploring the concept of public space and the city scale. He undertook a number of projects related with architecture, microarchitecture and urban sculpture, establishing a link between symbolism and use.
Born in Barcelona in 1948, Antoni Roselló was first and foremost an industrial designer and sculptor. During his time as a student, Roselló explored different options, first in the Barcelona School of Quantity Surveyors (1963) and then at the Fine Arts School in the same city (1967). This was when he worked in the architect Manuel Baldrich’s studio, Ricardo Bofill’s Taller de Arquitectura, and, between 1971 and 1973, in the Miró-Rodergas-Rousseau-Tineo studio. At the same time, in the 1970s he drew, painted and sculpted relentlessly, beginning to explore the themes that would later become recurrent in his work, within the context of his architecture.
After the mid-80s, he developed an interest in industrial design, with considerable success and a number of recognitions. He initially worked with the Spanish Organisation for the Blind (ONCE) and the Barcelona Trade Fair venue. Since then, he has developed innumerable designs. He is also recognised for his stage designs for a number of different theatre productions.
Many of Antoni Roselló’s works have received different design awards. He won several ADI-FAD Silver Delta Awards for different projects, such as the Children’s Olympic Games in 1992, the Mobile Bar Unit (UMB) in 1993 and the All Purpose Mobile Unit (UPM) in 2003, among others. In 2004, he and Rafael de Cáceres were awarded the City of Barcelona award for the Barcelona Metropolitan Tram stations project.
Roselló is the creator of a number of different products from the Urbidermis catalogue, both in the area of urban furniture and lighting: the outdoor urban bollard Skyline (2014), designed to mark a pathway with a raised light window; the Gunnar urban floodlight and the outdoor wall lamp, both designed in 2020 and inspired by the architectural tenets and Nordic design of Gunnar Asplund; the Maya litter bin (2002) and the Mondrian tree grate (2002), whose perforated grill establishes a geometric order that accompanies and ensures continuity with the pavement. These are all works that share a uniqueness and a capacity to bring greater expression and vibrancy to outdoor spaces.
