The holidays are the ideal time to rescue that book that we have wanted to start for a long time, cook that recipe that we never found time for or recover that podcast that we longed to listen to. From Comer La Vanguardia we bring you some episodes of the Stay to eat podcast so you can enjoy them calmly this summer.
In this chapter of the podcast Stay for a meal, the pioneer of industrial design in Spain, André Ricard, defends that simplicity is closer to aesthetic beauty than complexity and points out that designers should not try to solve their own problems or give free rein to to his ego, but to put himself in the shoes of others to find the best functionality and make life easier for the majority.
For Ricard, there are no everyday objects that do not deserve to be reviewed to try to make them work better, nor is there a person who is not capable of designing. “If they left us on a deserted island, the first thing we would do would be to design some object, not for decoration, but to feed or shelter us.”
The creator of objects as varied as the Copenhague ashtray, the Tattoo lamp, the Mini Moka coffee maker or the pioneering Compact white porcelain tableware, among many others as everyday as electric switches, lunch boxes, juicers or soap bottles, reflects on the success or otherwise of some designs that we come across every day in our own kitchens or in bars and restaurants, and about the pending issues that still remain for the design sector, which suffers from the fact that China has become the world's great factory and the immediacy that companies demand and that prevent us from thinking in order to create.
You can listen to this chapter of Stay to eat in La Vanguardia and on all podcast platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcast or Google Podcast.
