Designer
Mario Ruiz
Year
2010
Awards
Wallpaper* Design Award
2008
Red Dot Design Award
2010
Revista MD
2011
Flat
“I am inspired by the possibility of designing something that is appreciated and used. Essentiality is a way of being and understanding design. I feel comfortable with silent shapes, carefully considered objects, well built and manufactured with minimum parts to make them work.”
FLAT is a collection of outdoor furniture that we designed for GANDIABLASCO in 2008. It’s a well-balanced and flexible collection; an essentially formal concept with a light and airy structure in which fabric plays an important part.”
Products in the collection
Flat High chaise lounge
Mario Ruiz
Flat Chill bed 100
Mario Ruiz
Flat Chill bed 140
Mario Ruiz
Flat Round chill bed
Mario Ruiz
Flat Side table 35
Mario Ruiz
Flat Lounge chair
Mario Ruiz
Flat 2 Seat sofa
Mario Ruiz
Flat C Table
Mario Ruiz
Flat Sectional 1
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Flat Sectional 2
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Flat Sectional 3
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Flat Sectional 4
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Flat Sectional 6
Mario Ruiz
Flat Sectional pouf
Mario Ruiz
Flat Coffee table 42
Mario Ruiz
Flat Coffee table 90
Mario Ruiz
Flat Coffee table 120
Mario Ruiz
Flat Round coffee table Ø42
Mario Ruiz
Flat Round coffee table Ø90
Mario Ruiz
Flat Club armchair
Mario Ruiz
Flat Club armchair table 80
Mario Ruiz
Flat Dining armchair
Mario Ruiz
Flat Dining chair
Mario Ruiz
Flat Dining table 150
Mario Ruiz
Flat Dining table 210
Mario Ruiz
Flat Dining table 270
Mario Ruiz
Flat Shelving unit 90
Mario Ruiz
Flat Shelving unit 180
Mario Ruiz
Flat Bar table 70
Mario Ruiz
Flat Bar table 180
Mario Ruiz
Flat High stool
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Flat High stool with backrest
Mario Ruiz
Flat High stool with high backrest
Mario Ruiz
The collection
About Mario Ruiz
Born in 1965 in Alicante, Spain, designer Mario Ruiz graduated in Industrial Design from Barcelona’s prestigious Elisava Design School. He started his independent professional career in 1995 opening his own studio in Barcelona.
Siemens, Steelcase, Teknion Studio, Offecct, lapalma, Thomson, Arflex, Haworth, Grundig, Palau, GANDIABLASCO, Expormim, HBF, Metalarte, Joquer, B.lux... are among the many clients with whom Mario Ruiz has worked extensively. For some of these companies he not only undertakes projects directly related to their products in diferent fields (domestic and office furniture, lighting, textile design, product design) but also acts as creative director defining their product.
Mario Ruiz’s work has been shown in exhibitions throughout Europe and Japan and he has been acknowledged with more than 40 important awards. In 2016 he received the prestigious National Design Prize, given by the King of Spain, Felipe VI and the Ministry of Economy.
He is also the recipient of Delta de Plata prizes, awarded by Barcelona’s ADI-FAD (Association for Industrial Design). In Europe and the US, meanwhile, he has received plaudits from Red Dot, IF, Design Plus, and the Wallpaper Awards.
From 1992 until 2002, Mario Ruiz was Professor of Industrial Projects at the Eina and Elisava design schools in Barcelona. He has given numerous lectures in Tokyo, Singapore, New York, Dubai, London, and Chicago.