From Santa & Cole,

In this edition of Euroluce, we present some of the first products from the catalog alongside newly launched designs that, despite coming from different generations and contexts, coexist naturally and harmoniously in terms of lighting. Conceived as a canvas inspired by nature’s colors — like the sandy glow of yellow light or the deep blue of the night sea— the exhibition space invites visitors to “to look beyond the lamps and pay closer attention to the light.” (Gabriel Ordeig, 1985), before stepping closer to read the objects.
For forty years, we have built our catalog as a small, independent, and global editor, guided by the freedom to choose authors and works. The result of this enduring approach is a collection of well-designed objects that coexist effortlessly and transcend cultures, generations, and contexts.

Client
Santa & Cole

Credits
Art direction. Photography by Enric Badrinas

Art Assistants
Caetana de Castro and Carlota Bimbela

Cardboard egg cartons and chicken eggs in white, brown, light tan, and green-blue hues. Chicken eggs are a common food in our Mediterranean diet and have many properties. “They are easy to digest, a main ingredient in many sweet and savory dishes, and an essential component in others due to their binding properties.”

For the lamp campaign, which coincided with Easter, a “distinctive’ image was created due to the new product typology. It is not a floor lamp, nor a table lamp, a pendant, or a wall sconce. It is a lamp designed to solve the lighting problem in a bookshelf—specifically to light up the spines of books. Hence the name given by Santa & Cole: Bib Luz.
In 1998, German designer Ingo Maurer released a tribute version of this lamp, which he titled Oskar.

For the set design, the Hypostila bookshelf by BD Barcelona was selected, combined with a composition of various Bib Luz lamps and the kitchen elements necessary to cook and handle eggs. At the time, the lamp by Óscar Tusquets was published by BD.

Through the creativity of the campaign, the intention was to talk about light, simple and familiar elements, reading projected shadows, and discovering details through well-illuminated objects.

The composition was created using eggs and repurposed tray-style cardboard egg cartons, as they are basic and affordable items. We worked with Maison Carpinelli, who made it possible for us to have more than 800 eggs from three different chicken species, which were sold the next day at a special market price to avoid food waste. Eggs were also distributed among the company’s staff.

Photography by Enric Badrinas with Matias Vargas as director of photography.

Client
Santa & Cole

Credits
Art direction. Photography by Enric Badrinas

Production
Iria C. Martínez and Rocafort Producciones

Art Assistants
Núria Santamaria and Pau Castany

Agradecimiento
Stephane from Maison Carpinelli

Authentic signature spaces that reflect personality through furniture and the architectural value of the setting.

Natural light brings humanity into the space.
Color is ever-present.
Carefully composed photographs and expressive points of view.

Client
BD Barcelona

Credits
Art direction. Photography by Jara Varela

Special thanks to
Omar Sosa, Carolina Rojas and Marie Oehm

Refuges of light for Santa & Cole, created for a mindful ‘celebration’. Christmas campaign

Client
Santa & Cole

Credits
Art direction. Photography by Enric Badrinas

Item #03 is a publication created by and for those with whom we have an affinity, and wish to share our time—our clients, collaborators, friends and acquaintances. In this return edition, we would like to welcome the 2023-24 season through a selection of projects that showcase our approach to brand communication. In our work, there exists research, strategy, conceptualization, formal analysis, and design. We see ourselves as explorers of the world, and for us any image can be of interest, every object has value, and each detail holds significance. We find joy in learning from architecture, art, materiality, and observing nature, which always speaks to us of change, time, cycles, splendour and anticipation. The spaces and objects we choose embody history and imagination, transmitting concepts and values that define the products and brands we work with. This is how we create a distinctive voice and develop our own familiar and genuine language, with empathy, spontaneity, and high standards, always following our instincts and enjoying what we do. It is an endeavour that brings us the most important and essential reward: helping individuals and brands generate value and build authentic and lasting relationships with their customers.

Credits
Graphic design by Carlota Bimbela
Texts by Carolina Rojas

The ultimate hotel for the modern traveler. Where simplicity meets efficiency, and every detail is thoughtfully curated to make your stay unforgettable. Our spaces give access to the best locations where you can experience true comfort.

Credits:
Project in collaboration with Folch Studio for Bypillow Hoteles, from Barcelona
Ilustrations Lena Yokohama

A catalogue of light, with and for Nina Masó.

This catalogue-book created for Santa & Cole is made up of 392 pages devoted to light. In Giallo yellow paper, this new catalogue showcases the objects edited by Santa & Cole: lamps, furniture, and accessories that define the editor’s selection criteria. The catalogue-book is divided into three distinct parts: an introduction where we recount the history behind the company and its vision, an intermediate part dedicated to presenting news and products from Santa & Cole—from classics to the most contemporary—and a final part designed as a reference that includes drawings and more technical features of the lighting fixtures and furniture. It is a functional piece that, in addition to being a commercial tool, serves as the brand’s book. 

The editorial design of this catalogue was carried out in collaboration with Numa Merino Studio. 

Credits:
Edition by Santa & Cole
Creative and art direction Clara Quintana Studio.
Editorial design in collaboration with Numa Merino Studio
Impression Agpograf
Photography by Simone Marcolin

Special catalogue dedicated to its co-founder and editor Nina Masó. March 2023, Barcelona.

In our first conversation with the client, they described to us the new Antonio Citterio collection, inspired by the Eolian Islands, a beautiful and characteristic archipelago in Italy. The collection featured different variations of folding tables and chairs named after the different islands of the archipelago. At that time, a trip to the islands is due to understand the ‘architecture’ of the landscape, the rocky topography that makes up this archipelago and the textures that define it. We wanted to describe in images that place that would give name and inspiration to the designer.

We had the opportunity to talk about all the construction details of the product. At the product design level, how this collection differed from other appropriate ones were the qualities and characteristics that they wanted to highlight.

This is the starting point of the Eolian campaign, the place of inspiration that gave the collection its name. The brand and product discourse between exuberant landscape and industrial product was shown, describing through it its functions, qualities and uses.

A reading about Eolian Islands was also inspiration. “The first masters of the islands were the gods and monstrous creatures. Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds, named the archipelago after him and gave Ulysses a wineskin full of favorable winds.” This opened the narrative path for this campaign, projecting a set where the wind and the high volcanic rocks that make up the Aeolian Islands set gave us the two key elements for their abstract representation, combining large-format textiles and ‘the wind’.

Visually we wanted to represent the Eolian Islands as vertical walls that emerge over the sea with all their ‘firmness’ or monumentality, looking for that disproportionate proportion between land and boats similar to the proportion of space and its height with the Antonio Citterio collection.

The structure of the fabrics was visible since we wanted to show the naturalness and simplicity of the installation, in contrast to more elaborate plans and with a marked art direction and focused on the way of portraying the natural landscape.

The narrative of the neutral set allowed us to represent the exterior and interior. Living and Workplace.

From seeing large rocks represented as a contemplative outdoor landscape to adding the wind whom turned the rigid walls into movement, curtains from interior spaces, accompanying the chairs, armchairs, table and chaise longue from Kettal collection.
The contrast between the wild and memorable landscape was sought with the product set studied and designed ad hoc for kettal, where their product was placed on a very clean and clear ‘place or space’ to show the product in all its formality on a stage ‘ white’ to be the simplicity of the design itself that represents the Antonio Citterio collection.

Global brand campaign with a new vision of product storytelling.

Client
Kettal

Credits
Creative direction and art Clara Quintana Studio. Photography and video Ricard López. Producer Antón Briansó and Àlex Rayo.

Special thanks to Antonio Navarro and Marc Martin.

Casa Rovira, 1967. By José Antonio Coderch Sentmenat, located on the north coast of Barcelona, in the Maresme.

A house that flies over the sea with the unique and omnipresent vision of the horizon line.

Through its architecture and the different rooms and views of the sea, we define the photographs with the protagonist on each space, with all her objects and furniture for the Max Mara Weekend Summer 2023 campaign.

We counted by existing original furniture from the house combined with lamps from Santa & Cole, candles from Hermès, outdoor furniture from Lobster, rugs from CC Tapis, tableware from R+D.Lab, photographs from Openhouse, artisan baskets of different sizes, flowers from summer and books or other objects that defined the personality of the protagonist and that accompanied the looks designed by Max Mara for this summer collection. The predominance of the earth tones of the garments were combined with the spaces and the light of the house to convey the warm summer atmosphere.

“Outside, the façade is covered with lime plaster and the pavements are made up of ceramic tiles arranged in a herringbone pattern, the openings are filtered by means of white booklet blinds. All this gives it that look of a Mediterranean house that supports the living tradition that Coderch insistently defends.” from Catalan Architecture Cat.

Photo campaign and short video.

Client
Openhouse Studio

Credits
Art direction by Clara Quintana Studio. Creative direction and production by Mari Luz Vidal. Photos by Salva Lopez. Video by Martí Herrera. Model Ainoha Larretxi from Blow Models. Styling by Jaume Vidiella Hairdressing and makeup Jorge Zunica.

Clara Quintana Studio intervenes in the window of Il Giardinetto with an illuminated white napkin as a symbolic element of ‘a dish of light’ using the classic art of folding that came to an end during the 18th century.

The change from folded cloth to folded art occurred in the 16th century in Florence, Italy. The starchy linens were folded into large table centers known as triumphs. They represented real or mythical animals, natural elements such as trees and architectural forms that resembled castles or fountains. There was a meaning hidden within the folds. According to the guest, the napkin was folded in one way or another.

In this case we have put the finishing touches to the table with a warm spot of light and a folded white napkin referring to Ronde de la Jeunesse and Picasso’s dove with the will to fill Il Giardinetto with optimistic energy for this new year.

You can stop by and have lunch or dinner at Calle de la Granada del Penedès, 28. Between Tuset and Balmes. And in January more things, we will do a napkin folding happening with Joan Sallas.

Cliente
Il Giardinetto

Special Thanks
To thank Joan Sallas, artist expert in napkin folding.
To África Sabé, specialist in technical lighting.
And we also want to thank Marta Feduchi and Poldo Pomés for this invitation to create a showcase for this beloved restaurant.

Credits
Photography by Carlota Bimbela and own ones.