The Inter-American Development Bank
Enrique V. Iglesias
President
Nancy Birdsall
Executive Vice President
Georges Cahuzac
Executive Director for
Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Spain and Sweden
Germán Bejarano
Alternate Executive Director for
Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Spain and Sweden
Muni Figueres
External Relations Advisor
Elena M. Suárez
Coordinator, Special Programs
Ana María Coronel de Rodríguez
Director of the Cultural Center
The Inter-American Development Bank is an international financial institution created in 1959 to help accelerate the economic and social development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Bank is today the principal source of external public financing for most Latin American countries.
IDB Cultural Center
In 1992, as part of the celebration of the Quincentennial, the Bank created the Cultural Center at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., as a gallery for exhibitions and permanent forum from which to showcase outstanding expressions of the artistic and intellectual life of its member countries. Through the Center, the Bank contributes to the understanding of cultural expression as an integral element of economic and social development. In addition to exhibitions, other Center activities such as conferences, lectures, and concerts stimulate dialogue and greater knowledge of the culture of the Americas.
This exhibition is a tribute to the
City of Barcelona, the site of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting
of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Exhibition Committee
Félix Angel
Curator of the IDB Cultural Center
Juli Capella
Quim Larrea
Associate Curators
Barcelona
Josep Armengou
Coordinator in Barcelona
BID Barcelona Consortium
Valkiria Amaro Peizer
Catalogue Design
The catalog text is based on the book Nuevo diseño español,
by Juli Capella and Quim Larrea
(Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1991).
Photographs of the objects from the
Museu de les Arts Decoratives are courtesy of
Capella & Larrea, Architecture & Design, Barcelona.
Additional photography by Félix Angel.
The Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank would like to express its appreciation to the following persons and institutions who made this exhibition possible:
Marta Montmany i Madurell, Director of the Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Ajuntament de Barcelona; Dolors Llopart i Puigpelat, Director of the Museu D'Arts, Indústries i Tradicions Populars, Ajuntament de Barcelona; Teresa Martínez i de Dalmases, Director of the Museu, and Jordi Bonet i Armengol, Architect-in-Chief, Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia; Architect Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Director of the Cátedra Gaudí; Eduard Carbonell, Director of the Museu Nacional D'Art de Catalunya; Cristina Mendoza, Director of the Museu D'Art Modern de Catalunya. Juan Bautista Mur Soteras, Dean; Gerard García-Ventosa i López, Vocal; Ana Puig-Pey Claveria, Vocal Director, and David Ferrer Bastida, Chief of the Arxiu Històric, Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya; and Josep Miguel García, Delegat D'Arts Plàstics, Centre D'Art Santa Mònica, Generalitat de Catalunya, Direcció General de Promoció Cultural.
Special thanks to Joan María Pujals i Vallvè,
Cultural Counselor, Generalitat de Catalunya; Ferran Mascarell, Director,
Institut de Cultura de Barcelona; and Alvaro S. de Erice, Minister for Cultural
Affairs of the Embassy of Spain, Washington, D.C.