BANQUETANGA /////////////////////////

AT THE SET

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2016/05/eco-brand-industrial-design.html

DESIGN BY LLOVERAS 
@ TABLE

BOXI //////////////////////////// INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/me-acuerdo.html

WOOD SERIES

UNSTABLE FURNITURE SERIES

BY LLOVERAS

URBAN PUNCH LOVE

A pop-humanoid scaled to seat height, Urban Punch Love converts street furniture into an extrovert actor. Its bulbous rubber body, sprung legs and comic physiognomy invite touch before thought, collapsing the distance between spectator and object. The work proposes interaction as the primary civic programme: a bench that looks back, a mascot that supports weight, an urban companion whose ergonomics are legible at a glance. In doing so, it reframes the plaza as a stage for proxemics and play rather than merely circulation (Lefebvre, 1991). Materially, the glossy red skin and coil feet shift the language of public equipment from municipal austerity to pop affect. These cues produce a low threshold of approachability, especially for children and non-expert users, while the anthropomorphic “U” body resolves into a clear affordance: sit, lean, hug, pose. Such clarity counters the ambiguity that often haunts contemporary placemaking, where objects aestheticise sociality but do little to host it. Here, function and figure coincide; the humour is not garnish but interface. Urbanistically, the piece inserts a micro-scale of care into the hard square. By multiplying recognisable, near-identical figures, the project imagines a neighbourhood populated by gentle sentinels—identical yet individuated by scratches, patina and local use. This seriality echoes the logics of product design while remaining a sculptural proposition: character without narrative, public intimacy without surveillance. It also recalibrates risk. Rubber and spring absorb impact and emotion, privileging choreography and conviviality over control, aligning with de Certeau’s insistence on everyday tactics that residents deploy to reclaim space. Crucially, Urban Punch Love understands that belonging is tactile before it is symbolic. By offering a soft, resilient body in the midst of stone and signage, it models a city that returns affection. The result is not a toy but an ethic: furniture that loves back, scripting small acts of attachment that aggregate into civic form.

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URBAN FURNITURE 

ANTO LLOVERAS @ TABLE 2006

COLADOR - DISEÑO INDUSTRIAL

carrito-estantería-baja-separador

piezas cortadas, dobladas y soldadas de chapa de acero perforada de cuadrados de 2x2cm de 2mm de espesor. 

patas de tubo de 5cm. todos los cantos matados. 

 esmaltado en horno.

alto 66cm - ancho 36cm - largo 160cm 

ANTO LLOVERAS @ table 2005