Antoni Gaudí. Two-seat sofa, around 1904-1906

Antoni Gaudí [2], one of the best international architects from the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century, was also a bold designer of furniture, metalwork, and some of the decorative pieces of his buildings.  For the chairs of the Casa Batlló [itinerari modernista], in the Passeig de Gràcia of Barcelona, the architect designed a type of chair, unseen of until that moment, that aimed to use rounded shapes that adjusted to the human morphology and did without unnecessary the upholstery and ornamentations of the time, to leave a nude shape, so to speak. 

Gaudí was the precursor of ergonomic designs and broke away from academic repertoires, bringing forward industrial design, as architects who were his contemporaries also did.

Two-seat sofa [3], Antoni Gaudí, circa 1904-1906