{"id":218073,"date":"2018-06-05T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibia.com\/qa-by-vibia-interview-with-antoni-arola\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:06:28","slug":"qa-by-vibia-interview-with-antoni-arola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vibia.com\/us\/qa-by-vibia-interview-with-antoni-arola\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A by Vibia, Interview with Antoni Arola"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antoni Arola <\/a>studied industrial design at Barcelona\u2019s Escola Superior de Disseny Eina. In 1994 he founded Estudi Arola<\/a>, its projects cover diverse fields: lighting, furniture, packaging, interior design and exhibition design. Together with Vibia he has produced the Flamingo<\/a><\/strong> lighting collection, awarded Best of Year Award and Wallpaper Design Award in 2016, as well as the outdoor lighting collection Bamboo, in collaboration with designer Enric Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n

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–A memory from your childhood related to your current profession as a designer.<\/em><\/p>\n

I remember being very young, during an arts and crafts lesson, making a kind of head from wires and transparent coloured paper which I ended up by putting a light bulb inside and it became a lamp.<\/p>\n

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-3 unmissable destinations for design professionals and architects.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kyoto, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta), Bofill\u2019s Taller de Arquitectura in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

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-A place in Barcelona that you never tire of visiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have a few favourite places \u2026 The Bogatell beach in winter, The Mir\u00f3 Foundation, before the refurbishment was carried out.<\/p>\n

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-The moment you most enjoy when working on a new design commission.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the first light appears\u2026.<\/p>\n

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-A person or persons you admire.<\/em><\/p>\n

My friends.<\/p>\n

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-An anecdote from a project that you\u2019ve worked on.<\/em><\/p>\n

I remember I was working on a project for El Bulli, with Ferran Adri\u00e0, the most creative client that I\u2019ve ever had or ever will have (something that really impressed me), I remember a phrase said in a moment of frustration: \u201cWhat\u2019s the problem? Are we minimalists or have we just run out of ideas?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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-A film or a book that should be seen or read.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently I read, on my wife\u2019s recommendation, a literary jewel: Biography of Silence by Pablo d’Ors, and a film \u2026 right now Billy Elliot comes to mind \u2026 it always makes me cry.<\/p>\n

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-A piece of advice that you would give to a student of industrial design.<\/em><\/p>\n

To work enthusiastically and forget about their own egos.<\/p>\n

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-Is there any type of object or Project that you haven\u2019t designed to date that you would like to become your next challenge?<\/em><\/p>\n

My next challenge is not a type of object it\u2019s simply to do better, much better than the last project; it\u2019s about doing something that will last longer than a simple trend.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Related posts:<\/span><\/p>\n

Flamingo Wallpaper* Award 2017\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Flamingo wins Best of Year- Thank you Interior Design!<\/a><\/p>\n

Flamingo is recognized with the Design Plus award, powered by Light+ Building\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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