A draughtsman, painter and poet, Alejandro de Riquer Inglada began his studies in Manresa and Languedoc, France. On returning to Barcelona, he completed his training with Tomás Padró and Antoni Caba, at La Lonja. He then travelled to Paris and London, and his contact in England with Japonisme, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Arts & Crafts movement was particularly important.

Influenced by figures such as William Morris, he embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal: artist, craftsman and poet united in the same man. He founded a furniture workshop, produced designs for the decorative arts and collaborated as a draughtsman and poet with the leading publications of Catalan Modernisme. He also introduced the art of ex-libris in Catalonia, a discip...