BD Barcelona Design 3-4-5 Mailbox
3-4-5 MAILBOX
3-4-5 MAILBOX
Designed By Lluís Clotet And Oscar Tusquets Blanca
The letterbox 3-4-5 has been in BD’s catalogue for over 30 years and has become a classic in Spanish design.
Tusquets and Clotet designed the first letterboxes which were placed “in rowlock” that is vertically on one edge. This way they could offer more capacity than the traditional letterbox, visually occupying much lesser space.
INFORMATION
FINISHES
-Body of steel plate of 0’7mm. -Painted with with acrylic lacquer in black RAL 9005. -Front door in polished stainless steel plate of 0’7mmwith transparent perspex window. -Labels in white fine cardbox. -Lock with recoil spring. -2 keys for each element included. -One of the special characteristics which makes this mailbox different from other on the market is the locking. -This lock can be opened and closed without using a key, if it required. -Available in blocks of 3, 4, or 5 elements.
DIMENSIONS
- 3 Modules :
DESIGNER
LLUÍS CLOTET
Born in Barcelona in 1941. He graduated in architecture from the Barcelona School of Architecture in 1965. In this school he taught from 1977 to 1984. Drawing In the years 95/96 and 96/97 it has has been visiting professor at the Aula PFC and Projects I and II teacher in the years 97/98, 98/99 and 99/00.
In 1964, he founded the Studio PER with architects Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici and Oscar Tusquets. The latest work on several projects until 1983.
In 1984, the partners with Ignacio Paricio gathers to allow architectural production. He is a founding partner of the firm "for Bd Barcelona design" for which regularly designs furniture and objets.lluìs also market their products as "Zanotta", "Alessi", "Driade".
OSCAR TUSQUETS BLANCA
Born in Barcelona in 1941, Oscar Tusquets Blanca, with the first name written without an accent and accompanied by both his surnames, as he likes it, usually presents himself publicly as an architect by training, a designer by adaptation, a painter by vocation and a writer through the desire to make friends. In other words, the prototype of the complete artist that the specialisation of the modern world has steadily driven to extinction.
He graduated as an architect in 1965 from Barcelona’s Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura and was a member of Studi Per, together with Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, Lluís Clotet and Mireia Riera, with all of whom he set out in 1972 on the adventure of Bd where he began his work as a designer of furniture and objects, thanks to which he has won the Spanish National Design Award.
Seen a number of his pieces appear in the collections of such major museums as the MoMA in New York and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
His professional career as a whole has been honoured with the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes [Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts], the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres [Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters] and the Creu de Sant Jordi [Cross of Sant Jordi].
