Author: claudia

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,” said BD Barcelona Design founder Jordi Arnau. “He proposed to do a hand-painted vase using a piece from the Showtime collection, hand-painted with 40 different designs.”

Jaime Hayon painted each of the white porcelain vases with black enamel, incorporating a number from one to 40 into each design.

These pieces were inspired on Mexican wrestling masks and the richness of colour and textures. For the Pop Up exhibition, curated by Li Edelkoort for the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, Hayon made two large scale masked faces (approx 50 cms) that look at each other.  The fabric was designed by Hayon together with the Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg.