Designer
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
Year
2022
Premios
Archiproducts Design Awards. Furniture category
2022
NYCxDesign Awards. Honoree
2024
GBmodular
A single profile, endless possibilities
“Ibizan houses, which have always been our source of inspiration, are modular. Back in the day, the natives of Ibiza, when they formed a family, built modules and attached them to one another. That modularity that characterizes Ibizan houses has always had a pull on me.”
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBModular embraces the concepts of modularity and minimalism, giving them a whole new meaning. GBmodular is GANDIABLASCO’s constructive system that evokes classic metal construction sets, performing an exercise in synthesis to articulate a wide typology of furniture with the minimum number of industrial elements. Its uniqueness lies in the clipping technique between extruded recyclable aluminium profiles. This technique allows for the creation of aluminium panels in countless dimensions, using them to build structures through a mechanism composed of an aluminium node and stainless steel bolted pins.
Technically, GBModular represents the refinement of the construction system designed by José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales and his team over 20 years ago to create the first outdoor furniture collections that gave GANDIABLASCO its international identity.
Products in the collection
GBmodular Chaise lounge
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Side table
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Lounge chair
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular 3 Seat sofa
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Coffee table
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Mirror
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Shelving unit
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Sideboard
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Dining armchair
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Bench 140
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Bench 200
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Bench 290
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Dining table 150
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Dining table 210
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Dining table 300
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Cantilever dining table 240
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
GBmodular Cantilever dining table 300
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
The collection
About José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
José Antonio Gandía-Blasco Canales was born in Ontinyent, Valencia. After studying law at the Valencia University, he joined the family business Gandia Blasco, a blanket manufacturer.
After travelling throughout Spain as a business agent, he began to work on responsibilities in the company. With the help of Marisa Gallén and Sandra Figuerola, designers, Gandia Blasco reshaped the image of the company. The current logo was created, the silhouette of a graceful kitten, as well as the first reversible design carpet collection, which later received the IMPIVA Award 1990 for innovation.
The construction of his summer residence in Ibiza in 1996, and the need to furnish the house with outdoor pieces that complemented their surroundings, sparked José A.’s first venture into furniture design. This creative process gave rise to a cutting-edge outdoor line that remains the hallmark of the GANDIABLASCO brand to this day. The consolidation of this new product range contributed decisively to the company’s diversification strategy.
In 1999 he inherited the company, and started with the definitive structural change.
José A. managed to lead the activities of a solvent family business towards the international benchmark it is today. Experimenting and innovating with materials and shapes, he has been able to turn the ideas of a lover of the Mediterranean culture into a brand image and lifestyle which are well known on the five continents.
Besides being the company president, Jose A. is also its artistic director. He has designed a great majority of the furniture and textile collections that GANDIABLASCO now sells around the world: the ‘DNA’, ‘DNA Teak’, ‘Clip’, ‘Lipstick’ and ‘356’ outdoor collections, accessories such as the ‘Picnic Deckchair’ and ‘Clack! Chair’, as well as a line of lighting products. He has also designed a wide variety of pieces of furniture as part of his vast Outdoor Spaces collection: ‘Daybed’, ‘Sofa Pergola’, ‘Merendero’, ‘Tipi’, as well as their modules and enclosures. He has also designed rugs such as ‘Pack’, ‘Peineta’, ‘Hidra’, ‘Círculos’, ‘Champiñones’ and the ‘Piedras’ duvet, all of which are easily identifiable with the GANDIABLASCO lifestyle.