{"id":12802,"date":"2019-11-01T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/?post_type=designer&p=12802"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T03:02:35","slug":"andre-ricard","status":"publish","type":"designer","link":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9 Ricard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Andr\u00e9 Ricard<\/b> (born 1929 in <a title=\"Barcelona\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a>) is a <a title=\"Catalonia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catalonia\">Catalan<\/a> industrial designer. He designed the torch for the <a title=\"1992 Summer Olympics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_Summer_Olympics\">1992 Summer Olympics<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9_Ricard_Sala#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> In 1993 he won the <a title=\"Creu de Sant Jordi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creu_de_Sant_Jordi\">Creu de Sant Jordi<\/a>award.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial designer, lecturer and writer. Raymond Loewy made contact with Peter Muller-Munk, founder of ICSID (1956). Invited as observer at the 1959 ICSID Congress. He shared the set up of ADIFAD (1960), the Spanish designers&#8217; society he later on presided (1971-1973). Member of the ICSID Study Group (1961). ICSID Vice-President (1963-1971). Leader of ICSID Design for Disaster Relief (1976). He founded and presided ADP, the designer&#8217;s professional association (1978). Vice-President of the Barcelona Design Center (1990-1996). Member of the Faculty of the Art Center &#8211; Europe (1988-1996). Head of Product Design in EINA school (1993-1999). Designer of the Olympic torch of the Barcelona Games (1992) and of the Olympic Cauldrum at Lausanne&#8217;s Olympic Museum (1993). President of the NGO Design for the World (1999-2007). Trustee of EINA Foundation and of Loewe Foundation. Honor Member of the Saint George Academy (2000). Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts (2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38213,"template":"","class_list":["post-12802","designer","type-designer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Andr\u00e9 Ricard - AJAR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andr\u00e9 Ricard - AJAR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andr\u00e9 Ricard (born 1929 in Barcelona) is a Catalan industrial designer. He designed the torch for the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] In 1993 he won the Creu de Sant Jordiaward. Industrial designer, lecturer and writer. Raymond Loewy made contact with Peter Muller-Munk, founder of ICSID (1956). Invited as observer at the 1959 ICSID Congress. He shared [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AJAR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-23T03:02:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Andre\u0301-Ricard.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"690\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"940\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Andr\u00e9 Ricard - AJAR","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Andr\u00e9 Ricard - AJAR","og_description":"Andr\u00e9 Ricard (born 1929 in Barcelona) is a Catalan industrial designer. He designed the torch for the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] In 1993 he won the Creu de Sant Jordiaward. Industrial designer, lecturer and writer. Raymond Loewy made contact with Peter Muller-Munk, founder of ICSID (1956). Invited as observer at the 1959 ICSID Congress. He shared [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/","og_site_name":"AJAR","article_modified_time":"2023-05-23T03:02:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":690,"height":940,"url":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Andre\u0301-Ricard.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/","url":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/","name":"Andr\u00e9 Ricard - AJAR","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Andre\u0301-Ricard.png","datePublished":"2019-11-01T04:00:45+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-23T03:02:35+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Andre\u0301-Ricard.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Andre\u0301-Ricard.png","width":690,"height":940},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/designer\/andre-ricard\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Andr\u00e9 Ricard"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/","name":"AJAR","description":"Furniture | Lighting | Accessories","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/designer\/12802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/designer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/designer"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajar.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}