Miguel Fisac

MIGUEL FISAC SERNA (Madrid, 1913 - 2006).
Pair of stools, ca. 1960
Steel structure with brass finish.
Seat upholstered in synthetic shearling.
Unique piece.
In good condition, with age-related wear.
Measurements: 41 × 48 × 48 cm.

These stools, designed by Miguel Fisac in the 1960s, have a metal structure with clean lines and great elegance. Beneath the circular, padded seat, four square steel tubes extend downward and open smoothly in a continuous curve, shaping the legs and giving the whole a sense of lightness and dynamism. The brass finish adds a warm glow that underlines the sober and refined character of the piece.

The seat, upholstered in synthetic shearling, adds texture and comfort, contrasting with the structural clarity of the metal. The result is a balanced and expressive stool, representative of Fisac's experimental and refined approach to design. A unique piece that combines constructive solvency, material sensitivity and a fully current aesthetic.

Miguel Fisac Serna was a Spanish architect, urban planner and painter. He graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture in 1942 with the Superior Prize. Dissatisfied with the architecture of his time, he achieved a style of great personality, in which he incorporated original structural solutions with prestressed concrete and his characteristic bone-beams. From his beginnings, in which he rejected the rationalism of his masters, perceiving that in them the architectural plastic does not respond to technical demands and human need, he was influenced by the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the neo-empiricism of the architect Erik Gunnar Asplund and Nordic organicism, experienced in his 1949 trip to Sweden. With a social idea of architecture and of creating housing for people without resources, the first competition he entered was one for minimum housing organized by the Official College of Architects of Madrid. He won the competition with a project for low-cost housing with a minimum surface area, but it was not a success. However, Fisac continued to look for prefabricated solutions to solve the problem. On the other hand, in the 1950s he revolutionized the appearance of Spanish churches. In 1959 he began his most restless and personal period. The material he uses is prestressed concrete in the form of hollow pieces that look like bones and meet the conditions of great lightness and strength. At the end of the sixties he further refined his architecture, dispensed with his concern for the popular and focused his attention on the possibilities of new materials, especially prestressed concrete, an invention he patented, and post-tensioned concrete, testing original prefabrication systems. Concrete was his favorite material. The Miguel Fisac Foundation was created on November 22, 2006 when the Official College of Architects of Ciudad Real acquired the complete documentary archive of Fisac's work.