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.
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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.


Alberto Lievore

Alberto Lievore

Born into a family of Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948, from a ...
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Antoni Arola

Antoni Arola

After studying at the Escuela Superior de Diseño Eina (Eina Superior School of Design and ...
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Christophe Mathieu

Christophe Mathieu

Born in Hamburg in 1961, Christophe Mathieu graduated in Interior Design from the School of ...
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Enoc Armengol

Enoc Armengol

Barcelona born Enoc Armengol, is a Spanish industrial designer and social engineer. After studying industrial ...
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Hector Serrano

Hector Serrano

Hector Serrano was born in Valencia, Spain in 1974. After graduating from the ESDI CEU ...
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Itamar Burnstein

Itamar Burnstein

Itamar Burnstein was born in Haifa, Israel in 1974. He graduated from the Jerusalem Bezalel ...
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Jaime Hayon

Jaime Hayon

Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayón was born in Madrid in 1974. As a teenager, he submerged ...
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Jordi Llopis

Jordi Llopis

Born in Barcelona, Jordi Llopis holds a Master of Arts in Furniture and Product Design ...
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Jordi Veciana

Jordi Veciana

Jordi Veciana (Barcelona 1960) studied industrial design at Elisava (Barcelona School of Design and Engineering). ...
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Manel Molina

Manel Molina

Manel Molina joined forces with Alberto Lievore and Jeanette Altherr in 1991 to create the ...
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Mario Ruiz

Mario Ruiz

In their design office, they give extensive thought to the issue of achieving good design. ...
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Oscar Devesa

Oscar Devesa

Oscar Devesa, along with his brother Sergi, came together in 1987 to create the industrial ...
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