FRANCESC RIFE, COMMERCIAL SPACES & MORE

His career as an interior and industrial designer begins during the period of his academic training through various collaborations with architecture and design studios. He also assumes personal projects. In 1994 he founded his own studio in Barcelona, Spain and currently leads a team of professionals trained in various fields of design. His projects, national and international, range from interior to industrial design in the commercial and private sectors. The studio also has considerable experience in graphic design projects, photography and art direction. Its design philosophy is based on the spatial and geometric proportion. Throughout his career Rifé has received many prizes in the field of design. Also, he has been nominated for the National Design Awards and the Delta Awards for Industrial Design. His work has been widely reported in the press and specialized publications and books nationally and internationally. Also several books that collect his most outstanding works have been published. Currently he combines teaching with an active role in workshops, meetings, and conferences throughout the Spanish territory and internationally. This new book is the third one of a series which previous titles were successfully sold around the world.

Au fil des ans, le travail de Francesc Rifé a été qualifié de sobre et minimaliste. Cependant, leréduire à une simple question de forme reviendrait à s'en tenir à la surface. Derrière chaqueespace se cache une série de décisions qui ne sont pas toujours perceptibles au premier coupd'oeil, mais qui déterminent sa cohérence. Ce texte ne vise pas à présenter des projets. Il vise à s'attarder sur les principes qui les sous-tendent. "Interior Foundations" naît de l'idée que le design d'intérieur n'est pas une discipline décorative, mais structurelle. C'est le lieu oùse définissent les proportions, la relation entre les pleins et les vides, la pénétration de la lumière, le poids des matériaux et le dialogue avecle contexte