Our Story

The history of RS Barcelona begins in 1975 in a small sheet metal workshop in Viladecans. Rafael Rodríguez Sevillano, a seasoned mold maker with a lot of expertise behind him, decides to set up his own business. Over time, his workshop becomes an industrial facility just a few kilometers from Barcelona and his two sons, Rafael and Sergio, join the business. There, among metal sheets, screws and machinery, they grow, toughen up, and learn to love the metal work.

The machines cut, fold and bend metal at a relentless pace and the work soon becomes monotonous. Working for others put food on the table but it doesn't satisfy the creative hunger. That which begins in the stomach and climbs up to the head. It is time for the brothers to put all the professional experience built up over the years into designing a unique product of its own. A piece that will be the beginning of it all. The transformation of a passion into a way of life.

With the inexperience of those who are just starting out in a totally unknown market but the enthusiasm and the desire to conquer the world, RS Barcelona goes with its RS2 football table to his first major design event. Milan. Design Week. Fuorisalone. Tortona Zone. Superstudio Più. In the nearby space, a couple of young designers show their first prototypes: fresh and non-conventional pieces of furniture. ""Hi, I'm Rafa."" ""Hi, We’re Eva and Cutu"". ""We’re Stone Designs"".

Seven days as neighbors is plenty of time for a lot of chats. To explain each other's past lives and dreams. ""What if we dream together?"". Stone Designs has dozens of designs bubbling away in their heads; RS Barcelona, the craftsmanship, the machinery and the ambition of getting fully into the design market. Back in Barcelona and Madrid they begin to work on what will become much more than a collaboration: a friendship with an epicenter in making shared dreams come true.

Just three years earlier, RS Barcelona had presented itself as the Brand that had reimagined the football table. In 2009 we reinvented ourselves with our new collection of furniture that turns a whole new dimension to our daily activity. Bending and welding metal is not the same as sewing linen or polishing birch wood. Each material has its own complexities. Plenty of expertise and know-how were required to ensure that the strap of the On the Road bench fitted naturally; the cushion of the Sake pouf would be fluffy without losing its shape; the Spongy sofa hugs with affection, and the folds of the Drops table evoked rain. Nonstop adaptation and learning.

This whole new universe is captured in our first catalog. 95 pages brimming with design, inspiration and solutions with which to decorate and furnish spaces for bold living. Now it’s time to make the world fall in love with the new proposals as we did with the RS2. Ready, steady, go!

A new star run out onto the RS Barcelona football table playing field. It is time for Ella’s debut, the first female football table player. Ella is an aspiration, a statement of intent, a sign of our commitment to equality. Because we’ve always believed in the power of sport and play as an instrument of cohesion, inclusion, and union between people. As a tool for transformation, and as a catalyst for change.

Ella was born under the hands of a craftsman who, with great dedication and affection, has carved it with the exact proportions as her male partner. The same skills and precise and powerful shots. The same desire to dribble, make through passes and score spectacular goals. On the playing field of our football tables, both the RS2 and the new RS3 with pop design and lighter look, there are no differences. Ella and her mate play on equal footing.

2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake. For us, it is the year of You and Me. A new game entered our universe of playfulness, where we’re in our element. For the design of the You and Me ping pong table, we turned to Antoni Pallejà Office. We had a gut feeling and our heart told us that it had to be him. We were completely bowled over with the initial sketches, and once we had the first prototypes we knew it was going to become another icon, just like the RS2.

The minimalism of its proposal, the simplicity of its shape, the finesse of its lines, and the subtleness of its discrete side drawer -its best-kept secret-. Sportiness and elegance intertwined into a sublime design in a table tennis table as never seen before. In its first year of existence, You and Me wins the Best of Year award from Interior Design magazine and becomes the best seller of our collection.

Many things have changed since our beginnings, not least ourselves! Our products began to venture beyond the home setting. Our intense living philosophy finds its way into offices and hotels, where new ways of working and sharing are beginning to arise, calling for more welcoming, more inclusive and more comfortable spaces. A trend that began with startups and is progressively spreading to large and small companies around the world.

We learned to operate in the contract sector, rising to the challenge of more ambitious projects, with new demands, timings and numbers. We are ready; our products not only fulfill the required standards of quality, but also generate a buzz and meet the created expectations. Our attendance in events such as HD Las Vegas confirms it and we readjust our compass and set course towards new territories unexplored by us until then: the contract and hospitality universe.

The time has come to add new designs to our collection of ping-pong tables. The You and Me has successfully reached a benchmark in the market and has become a true hit. Following in its footsteps and matching the RS3 Wood football table, we present the RS Folding and the RS Stationary. One single model in two different versions. Two different ways to express and enhance the functionality without giving up to the design.

The RS Stationary is a tough, all-terrain table tennis table designed to play plenty of matches outdoors. Its robust legs give it the stability and strength to live outside. In the Folding version, engineering serves functionality and restores design to its rightful place. It is fully foldable to maximize space where and when it is needed. Folded it remains discreetly tucked away and easily moves with its wheels, and once open it reveals all its charm and is an invitation to unrestricted play.

Great changes took shape. The workshop in Viladecans and the warehouse in Abrera seems to be shrinking. Or is it that we are growing and getting bigger? Finding the perfect place to locate our new facilities that offer us greater production and storage capacity will be no easy task. The quest for plots is beginning, because what we know for sure is that we want to build it from the ground up and that it will be a project with RS Barcelona DNA.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, the North American market is also becoming larger and more demanding. A few years ago we made the decision to open a warehouse and have ongoing stock in the country for meeting more effectively to our customers and their projects. Now, the time has come to take another step forward, and before the year ends, we establish RS Barcelona LLC, our company in the United States. Another significant milestone in our short but intense history.

Color has always been part of RS Barcelona's palette. From the sobriety of black to the purity of white, there is an infinite and inexhaustible chromatic universe that speaks of aesthetic codes, expresses an identity, and is a reflection of a way of interpreting what surrounds us. We love to play with color and with the RS4 Home x Hey Special Edition we bet on the most vibrant, daring and bold colors.

The fusion of the creative energy of Hey creative studio and our unconventional approach to universe of play creates an explosive proposal: the RS4 Home x Hey Special Edition football table reveals the power of color and how the game becomes art. The extraordinary color combination, the vitality of its imaginary and the energy of its optimism seduce MoMA Design Store, which grants it the MoMA Exclusive design seal for exclusive sale in its stores.

Once again, we venture to explore new play territory. This time, we dive into the universe of shuffleboard, a game little-known in Europe but very popular in the United States. The Track steers away from the classic stereotypes associated with this game, boldly reinterpreting it through its design of sleek lines and firm, imposing beauty, and the audacious choice of materials in which the toughness of steel is the undisputed protagonist anew.

To make the game show even more exciting, we design the perfect stand from which to cheer on the team. Crew is our proposal for furnishing offices and other common areas that require solutions that provide flexibility and functionality to the space. A two-tiered multipurpose seat, ideal for casual meetings or team presentations. Track and Crew reaffirm our commitment to bring the play and its power to enhance the energy of work environments.