Barcelona Design & Craft Tour
DESIGN & CRAFT IN BARCELONA
Led by experts and curators, Barcelona Design Tours can take you inside the studios, ateliers and showrooms of the city’s most creative designers, artisans and makers.
From industrial design to spectacular modern interiors, jewellery, ceramics and leather, craft and design have been part of Barcelona’s DNA for centuries. Yet never before have the two disciplines been so intertwined, with ‘crafted design’ and ‘luxury craft’ emerging as two important trends. On our private walking tours, we will show you the trends and processes, and introduce you to new ideas and inspirations that are uniquely MADE IN SPAIN.
MADE IN SPAIN
In Spain, craft and design are more intertwined than ever before. The ‘New Craft’ movement is particularly strong in Barcelona, resulting in luxurious and avant-garde jewellery, ceramics, textiles, leatherwork and other disciplines very much in demand by international collectors, lovers of the ‘handmade’ and prestige brands. The Old Town districts such as El Born and El Raval showcases this phenomenon, with owner-run ateliers and shops where you can often see the artisans at work using traditional crafting skills. This juxtaposition of new and old creates a rich creative scene that is unique to Barcelona.
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Shops & Showrooms
Let Barcelona Design Tours show the best of local creativity through the shops and showrooms of its most well-known designers. Learn about the ‘design boom’ of the early 1990s that radically changed the city and made Barcelona world-renowned in contemporary design. See what direction new designers are taking, and understand the who, where and how of the city’s unique style.
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Hospitality and Hotel Design
The tourist boom in Barcelona has resulted in an extraordinary number of hotels and restaurants that brim in originality and unique design concepts. From stunning lobbies and roof-top terraces to haute cuisine restaurants where the décor is as daring as the food, Barcelona Design Tours can show you how the city is catering to its millions of visitors in high style.
