Santa & Cole, Ediciones de diseño S.A.

Born in 1956, Nina Masó already felt in her early ages a clear vocation for interior design. When she ended her studies, she collaborated with various studios, until she set up her own interior design studio.
In 1982, Nina Masó met designer Gabriel Ordeig Cole. They started a personal as well as a professional relationship, undertaking various lighting and interior design projects for pubs and night clubs in Barcelona, such as the Boliche, El Café del Sol, Cibeles, the Al Dente restaurant and the Sísísí pub. In 1983, Nina Masó opened the Paspoc store in Cardedeu, an interior design and gifts shop, that she closed down five years later in order to focus on Santa & Cole. The commercial venture of creating Santa & Cole was born after Nina Masó and Gabriel Ordeig carried out the interior design project for Javier Nieto's house (married to Nina's sister at the time). The three of them decided then to found Santa & Cole, a design editing company, a new concept in Spain at that time. The company applied edition management to the field of industrial design, and searched to create a kind of lighting that had nothing to do with the standards of that period.
For Santa & Cole's first catalogue, Nina Masó and Ordeig worked on the design of the Bella Durmiente lamp, a revolutionary design that colored fluorescence, for which they entrusted the painting of its shade to various contemporary artists. Nina Masó also took on other kinds of projects apart from Santa & Cole, among them we might stand out when she was commissioned in 1996 to do the interior design of the building that Barcelona's city hall chose in Sarajevo as the future headquarters of the Local Democracy Embassy. It was Barcelona's city hall cooperation office in Sarajevo, whose main aim was to contribute to rebuild the city after the Balkan war.
From 1985 to 2005, Nina Masó worked in Santa & Cole, focusing mainly in communication, image, editing and interior design. On February 2005, 20 years after Santa & Cole was set up, she coordinated the edition of the monograph entitled Gabriel Ordeig Cole, published by Santa Cole in its Contemporary Designers collection. She then left Santa & Cole in June, choosing to return to interior design, thus leaving behind the world of objects in order to submerge in space and light.

After two years away from the company she return in 2007 as the Indoor Catalogue Editor of Santa & Cole