Oscar Tusquets

Architect by training, designer by adaptation, painter by vocation and writer to make friends, Oscar Tusquets Blanca is the prototype of a complete artist that the specialisation of the modern world has gradually brought to extinction.

Born in Barcelona in 1941, he graduated as an architect at the Barcelona School of Architecture, while at the same time attending the Llotja Barcelona Arts and Crafts School.

He worked for three years at the studio run by Federico Correa and Alfonso Milá together with Lluís Clotet. This was where he became familiar with the preindustrial design of furniture and objects. It was also at this studio where he designed the Clotus fireplace, which is still in production. 

A member of the now defunct Studio PER, he first undertook architectural projects, including the Casa Fullà, Belvedere Georgina and the Pantelleria house, all three with Lluís Clotet. Other significant works of his include the extension and refurbishment of the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Toledo metro station in Naples. In 1975, he planned, together with his teacher and friend Salvador Dalí, the Mae West Room at the Theatre-Museum in Figueres. In accordance with the Dalí’s explicit request, he was named a Life Patron of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.