Curro Inza

CURRO INZA (Madrid, 1929- Menorca, 1976).
Armchair, c. 1965.
Beech wood and leather straps.
Later period straps.
Measurements: 72,5 x 64 x 55,5 cm.
Armchair made following the model of the piece designed in 1963 by Francisco de Inza Campos, for the office of the Fábrica de Embutidos Postigo in Segovia. The piece made by the same workshop presents the same design that Inza conceived as part of the furniture among which he also included; desks, shelves, chimney tops, railings and stair handrails. Thus demonstrating his global conception of architecture, where each element, from the space to the object, participates in the same formal and constructive coherence.
Francisco de Inza Campos developed a singular career as an architect, draftsman, painter, designer, editor and teacher. He was educated in Madrid and Barcelona, where he studied philosophy and architecture, acquiring a solid humanistic base that would mark all his work. From a young age he showed literary and artistic interests, writing poems and stories, and also excelling as a muralist in churches and civil buildings.
His professional career developed mainly between the late fifties and mid-seventies. Belonging to the generation of the so-called "Organic Decade", he defended a personal architecture, far from fashions and focused on the essence of things. He recovered popular traditions such as brick vaults and the use of natural wood, opting for humble materials and for an architecture in which construction and emotion were inseparable.
In addition to designing works that achieved national and international diffusion, he played a key role as editor-in-chief of the magazine Arquitectura del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid between 1960 and 1973, promoting architectural debate in Spain. He also designed furniture and taught, understanding architecture as a global discipline that integrates space, object and user.