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The Egoa design was a collaborative Among Gasca’s other award winning
project between Jesús Gasca and designs is the Gas chair, made of
Josep Mora and won them the aluminum, and a transparent plastic
Innovate Design Melbourne prize. mesh or upholstery. This has become
Gasca's recent designs include the STUA’s most prestigious product,
Globus Chair, Milano Table, Sapporo feted with the IF Silver design award
Shelving System, Gas Chair, and the Hanover, the Good Design award,
Zero table. Each piece is a wonder Chicago, Red Dot’s Best of the Best
of aesthetic innovation with such for the highest design quality at
enduring form that they will still be Essen, the Bo Bedre timeless chair
admired many decades from now. award, Copenhagen and the Selección
Delta Adi-Fad award, Barcelona.
Take one of Jesús’ latest creations
– the ONDA stool. Not only is it STUA’s best selling product is the
beautifully simple, but innovative too. Globus chair who’s gentle curves and
The seat mirrors the curves of the teardrop shaped frame has become
human body, moulding itself like a Gasca’s trademark. It is also one of
glove to the contours of the sitter his most widely copied designs.
to provide lumbar support by Copy they say is the finest form of
hugging the person’s lower back. flattery. To Gasca, it is a sin.
The cleverness of this design is in Counterfeiting is of course widespread
the soft rubber seat 'skin' which is within the world of design. We have
slightly smaller than the shell. all been approached by salesmen in
The two are moulded simultaneously dark alleys offering fake Rolex
and incorporate two different watches or Louis Vuitton bags,
materials, densities, and colours. but tables and chairs?
It looks beautiful from any angle. 
“Copying is the disease of design,”
The Sapporo Shelving System, another said Gasca with contempt and he has
recent addition to the STUA range devoted several pages on the STUA
combines the elegant minimalism of web site to highlight the shoddy
Japanese design with technically workmanship of these cut-price
refined modernism to produce a copies. Happily there are enough
system of boxed shelves that meet a people in the world who prize a Gasca
multiplicity of needs in a gracious and original and are pleased to pay for it.
flexible format. You can start with The same people perhaps who prize
the one high unit, which sits on a their Oyster yachts.
steel base, then add identical units
up to 6 high. For more information and examples
of Jesús Gasca’s work visit
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