JOAN BUSQUETS I JANÉ (Barcelona, 1874 - 1949). Pair of modernist chairs, ca.1900. Wood, upholstered in fabric. Not original upholstery. In perfect condition. Measurements: 92 x 40 x 41 cm. Pair of modernist chairs designed by Joan Busquets. Together with the lightness of the design, which avoids sharp profiles but without giving up the synthetic stylization. A line of flowers is cut into the openwork of the backrest. The rear sabre legs combine with grooved front legs. Furniture designer and decorator, Juan Busquets is currently considered one of the most representative figures of Catalan modernism. He began his training in the family workshop, and then studied at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, where his teachers were Guitart and Lostaló. In the 1895-96 academic year he was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to travel around Spain, which he obtained thanks to a project for a Renaissance-style bookcase-cabinet. He exhibited furniture projects for the first time at the Barcelona Exhibition of 1896. The workshop of Joan Busquets was one of the most outstanding of modernist Catalonia and is currently, together with the production of Gaspar Homar, the most representative testimony of the furniture and decoration of Catalan modernism. He was president of the Fomento de las Artes Decorativas between 1918 and 1921, and supervised the manufacture of furniture for Gaudí's Casa Calvet. Works by Busquets can currently be found in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Güell Palace in Barcelona, the National Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Catalan Modernism in Barcelona, among others, as well as in several important private collections. In perfect condition.