The Blue coffee and Nº5 In the book ¨Interiores Vintage de estilo Industrial¨

Maria Eugenia Silva, Freelance editor of Loft Publications, is the author of the book ¨Interiores Vintage de estilo industrial¨ distributed by Booq publishing. A real manual for the vintage and industrial spaces lovers.

An interesting journey through the iconic designs of the first half of the XX century, emblematic vintage pieces of unknown authors and some interior spaces that exemplify the spirit of those decorative trends,¨ Interiores vintage de estilo industrial¨ now converted in a referent of space designs like Höst, Pizza east, Gran fierro and Nº5 and The blue coffee, both projected and decorated by Francisco Segarra furniture

The rigorous process of documentation on the web, took Maria Eugenia to discover the nature of Francisco Segarra contract solutions. A firm dedicated to transmit a passion. The interior decoration of singular spaces, the commitment of recuperated objects on the flea market and the devotion for the vintage and industrial aesthetics.

For Francisco Segarra firm, the collaboration is a great consideration even more when the project pursues to convert in a source of inspiration and a guide at the time to enter in the industrial vintage universe across the more influential names and some carefully selected projects of FS vintage interior design.

¨Interiores Vintage de Estilo Industrial¨

Since the industrial style emerged in the big capitals of the United States to the mid XX century, thanks to the process of reform of old spaces abandoned by immigrants, students or artist in a clandestine form, all this interesting work is talked about here.

Since the incorporation of the vintage term to industrial spaces, a new tendency denominated industrial vintage or industrial chic, that pretends to bring warmth to the spaces by means of time and nostalgia, with the incorporation of pieces and objects from the past that have a special interest in art or a great aesthetic value.

Vintage Industrial Illumination

Illumination plays a fundamental role in the creation of warm atmospheres in the space designs with industrial and vintage inspiration, this is addressed through numerous designs of rescued pieces from old factories, luminaires bell type, articulated wall lamps, illumination bulbs for cinema productions and theatres.

The first pieces were made in series, genuine models like the mythical Jieldé, rightfully belonging to the era of the reproduction technique that hides mystery and history.

Vintage, Industrial seats.

This deserves a chapter apart due to its transformation in the last century in all types of seats. Since the Modern Movement with its mechanical aesthetics, austerely without ornaments to the designs and productions that took over wood like the prime material.

Iconic  industrial designs, products from brilliant minds and nonconformist, like the Thonet chairs designed by Michael Thonet, carpenter that revolutionize the furniture industry when he started the manufacture process of a new system of curved wood.

Is an obligation to name Tolix firm, its numerous re-editions and invaluable original pieces, treasures of the flea markets , they are considered cult objects by the experts in interior designs that bet it all in classics objects of the FS industrial design.

We don’t know if Xavier Pauchard will ever imagine that his designs of robust, resistant chairs, stackable and easily transportable, will go from functional chair in factories and offices to an essential to have in the Parisians cafes, museum pieces and objects of desire. It is indisputable that his French design of the 20`s turn him in an emblem of the thriving decorative industrial trends.

Industrial Design Furniture and Accessories

In molten iron, metallic mesh or savaged wood, the designed pieces for storage likeshelves, side boards, carts …. where the exterior design primes according to the content, it is approached since the decontextualization and the change of scales, hoarding all the attention.

Furniture and accessories that rescued the primitive essence of the New york lofts from the beginning of the XX century, reinvented in the most contemporary FS industrial decoration.

Industrial Vintage Tables

Key element in the interior design with industrial vintage tendency, the auxiliary tables, the type of old school desks, they deserve a separate chapter , under the strength of molten iron and the texture and warmth of the untreated wood ¨Interiores Vintage de estilo Industrial¨ shows how to introduce this element into decoration of spaces.

Accessories

Essential elements to guarantee ¨Interiores Vintage de estilo Industrial¨. Objects from past eras without an apparent use that wakes up our collections instinct.

Old billboards, advertisement posters, radios, typewriters, luggage, oil lamps, old clocks rescued from old train stations, pulleys and endless objects that end up in the most relevant interior design projects.

Interiores Vintage de Estilo Industrial

Among the excellent interior design projects of the book ¨Interiores Vintage de estilo Industrial¨, Höst, Pizza east or Gran Fierro; We find Nº5 y The Blue Coffee designed and decorated by Francisco Segarra.

Two projects, two experiences, two moments differentiated.

The Blue coffee is an experimental project from a novel firm motivated by the convincement of a great entrepreneur, Francisco Segarra; firmly convinced to show the projects in pilot spaces, places to test, feel and touch in real client situations, beyond the coldness of computer graphics.

An exhaustive study about the demand of the moment in all leisure shops, national and international, took him all over the planet and provided him a lot of knowledge of the evolution of the trends of the market.

Expertise and knowledge applied in an industrial style interior design without stridency, urban and elegant, conceived with ingenuity, where the old closets hide kitchen zones and that battered bench used by carpenters is now used as a bar top.

Robust wooden beams, tenuous light, old luminaires and pieces with a great aesthetic value like the theatre armchairs, the original Chester or the Victorian chimney, culminates fundamental projects in theory described in the book ¨the strategy of the blue ocean¨

Nº5 comes in a moment when Francisco Segarra is on its way to consolidate the firm, surrounded by a great team of professionals, leading the vintage furniture market . they dare to work on deconstructed places that flirt with elegance and glamour.

The projects where a furniture designer gets implicated are limited because it should count with a total creativity freedom without feeling a personal implication.

Nº5 hamburgers restaurant project in Castellón city, allowed Francisco Segarra to be a prophet In his homeland. Show his knowledge in the city that watch him shape and in front of those who watched him redirect his professional trajectory. Getting implicated in this project allowed him to develop a global concept according to his ideals. To elevate a hamburger restaurant, further than a gourmet category, starting from the respect towards the product. To culminate a gastronomic experience under the refuge of an spectacular space.

More than an interior design project, Nº5 developed a whole new concept.

Both spaces had a great repercussion in the graphic media professionals. To collaborate with Maria Eugenia Silvia for Loft Publications, editorial specialized in architecture manuals, interior design and life style is the culmination of this work.

If  your passionate about the history and development of industrial furniture, have the soul of a collectivists or you dedicate to the creation and rehabilitation of interior spaces, ¨Interiores Vintage de Estilo Industrial ¨ deserves a space in your library.