Vinçon

How many times have we asked ourselves why the first 30 metres of Vinçon are the hottest, most entertaining and tempting commercial space in Barcelona?

Is it because we are fans of the cheap-but-looks-pretty-good (and good) decorative objects that are regularly displayed next to the staircase up the stairs, to the left of the lamp whose ignition mechanism is a child's pichulina with the lampshade on its head?

Why do they have a section on the website for the least sold items?

Or is it because we feel surrounded by all the good, sensible, timeless and useful things that industrial design has produced in the last fifty years?

Let's face it, there are other design shops in the city, many with more and better furniture, but anyone who thinks of Vinçon as a furniture shop has never visited the place, because if we have to talk about the commercial specificity of this mythical space, we could refer to its origins as a gift shop (Hugo Vinçon Gifts!?), as well as to its present as a natural destination of the must-have of design and tasteful unclassifiable gifts.

To finish: If you're reading this and you're from Barcelona, I want to believe that I'm not telling you anything you don't already know (if not, you'll be an unusual Barcelonian worthy of detailed study).