Metalarte Balancing the new and the traditional. Metalarte offers modern lighting from Barcelona, Spain. Since 1932, its founder, Antonio Riera felt a unique passion for bright, appropriate lighting. |  |  |
Metalarte. A light of hope.
Metalarte is a company that has defined its personality through the co-existence of the new and the traditional. Applying
Yin and Yang to production has resulted in the possibility of maintaining a catalogue that balances the future and the past, a
tradition that began in a workshop at Madrazo Street in Barcelona. Metalarte, S.A., Barcelona, Spain is a manufacturer of
traditional and avant-garde lighting whose origins date back to 1932. Metalarte, the world-renowned global company began within
the warmth of a simple metalworking shop where its founder, Antonio Riera felt a unique passion for bright, appropriate lighting
-- something most unusual in a country that used 125 volts until the beginning of the 1960s. Today Metalarte combines a
pride about its pioneer past and its new state-of-the-art factory and manufacturing abilities. Metalarte has chosen to work with
such established and esteemed professional designers as Eric Franch, the Devessa Brothers, Josep Aregall, Alberto Lievore,
Manuel Molina, Richard Ferrer and Manuel Molina. To further the concept that the future is today, in 2003 Metalarte
created its advanced laboratory, Metalab, that has commissioned such new designers as Jamie Hayón, Raymond Úbedy
and Otto Candalda, Hector Seranno, Jordi Llopis, Emil Padros and Ana Mir.   Enoc ArmengolBarcelona born Enoc Armengol, is a Spanish industrial designer and social engineer. After studying industrial ...
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