PN Is it possible to establish a relationship between jewels and furniture? And why specifically furniture? Wouldn't one think that along with your activity as a goldsmith you would make drawings or sculptures? Certainly it can't be by chance that from one project to another you always return to designing furniture. It seems to me to show a strict correspondence between the forms of furniture and the jewels of your different creative phases.

GB Perhaps there are certain points of contact, although there are essential differences given that working in a different creative genre subjects you to a different set of rules. You have to think not only in different dimensions, but also you have to rethink the entire mental scale. Just enlarging isn't enough because the object would lose something in intensity. But why should I make drawings or sculptures and not furniture? Furniture pieces are very interesting and share a close relationship with architecture.

PN When you design furniture, are you concerned with how it will be made?

GB If I design furniture as unique pieces, I build them together with a friend. Meanwhile for industrial productions, I work side by side with a technician. An industrial production responds to criteria of efficiency and reproducibility. Various problems often arise that are difficult to resolve...
























 
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