1979, the last attempt

In 1979, some of Disueño’s organisers were no longer members of ADI-FAD’s Governing Board, and in the end the display consisted of 12 pieces (with the selection for the Delta Awards totalling 34 pieces).

The members of the jury for this edition pointed out ‘the confusion displayed by the Disueño exhibition, where a possible initial criteria of selection based on critical, alternative or utopic positions has in fact become a heterogeneous collection of objects probably considered not to be “serious” enough to be included in the first selection, without denying that they have some aspects of real interest.’

Apart from the pieces by Riart (the chair Desnuda and the furniture piece Catalina), the productions could be classified into three sections: the re-editions, represented by BD (the ashtray Homenaje a Barraquer) and Módulo Muebles (the chair Balneari); the illuminated bodies of Cub, Albors and García Garay, and the objects worked like sculpture pieces by Mobles 114, Teresa Casanovas and Emili Armengol.

The press of the time printed some of the critiques of the last edition of Disueño, which were contributory factors to the exhibition being definitively suspended: the lack of interesting products following on from the initial stylistic direction – even though this was not strictly regulated – and the small number and conceptual confusion displayed by the few pieces of work exhibited.