Roc’n’rob is a design group set up in Barcelona by brother and sister team Rocío and Roberto Gonzalez Peñalver. Rocio was born in Castellón in 1978. She obtained her Diploma of Industrial Design from the Faculty of Technology and Experimental Science, Castellón. In 2003 she moved to Barcelona where she worked for Santa&Cole in the technical department of lighting and urban elements between 2001 and 2004. Since 2004 she has worked with Metalarte in the development of illumination products. Roberto was born in Castellón in 1981. He graduated as an Architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture, Barcelona (UPC) in 2007. During his degree he collaborated in the BAAS architect Studio, 2003-2004, with architect Marc Viader in 2006 and with architect Sergi Serrat in 2007-2008. Since 2009 he has worked with the architect and design studio Indissoluble.com. In the Autumn of 2006 the team, together with the architect Lola Rodríguez Torre, presented at the Ideas competition ‘Transitions - Light on the move’ promoted by Philips with the design of a LED light installation. This collaboration together with the design of unedited ''Avinyó'' lamp make up the base for the formation of roc''n''rob. Between the ''Avinyó'' lamp and the Urn ''There is a light that never goes out'' in 2009, both Rocío and Roberto developed their design knowledge in a practical environment with diverse projects both personal and professional: from an illumination project in an architect’s and artist’s dwelling to a five star hotel, from the construction of a building of subsidised housing for the elderly to the installation of a temporary exhibition in a Cathedral.
