Publisher's Synopsis
Trained as a painter, the Spanish designer Javier Mariscal worked as a strip cartoonist before moving on to interior design. A stool that he designed for a Valencia bar appeared in one of the early Memphis collections. Since then he has worked on a series of Barcelona clubs and restaurants, on graphics, product designs, textiles, clothes and furniture. Mariscal is responsible for the mascot for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.;This is his biography written by an Anglo-Spanish design journalist.