Jorge Pensi was born in Buenos Aires in 1946 and began his career as a designer in Argentina before emigrating to Spain in 1977, where he took Spanish citizenship. His Barcelona studio, founded in 1984 in the Gothic Quarter, moved in 2007 to a space facing the sea in the Olympic Village. The studio works in furniture and lighting design and in exhibitions and events, and Pensi has lectured alongside his practice. In 1997 he received Spain's National Design Prize. For Viccarbe he designed Shape, a side table that joins minimalist simplicity with geometric form. Made of satin-lacquered MDF and lacquered by hand in the colours of the Viccarbe collection, it is intended for living rooms, hotel bedrooms, offices and collaborative spaces. His Viccarbe work also includes the Toledo chair and the Regina lamp.
