This is a selection of our answers to the questions that we receive the most frequently on Santa & Cole. If you have another question, please do not hesitate to ask us by means of the Contact form.
What is Santa & Cole?
Santa & Cole is an editing company. Its function is to edit those selected objects where it can recognize itself and to implement the most adequate way for a designer\'s idea, or an antique design, to become a reality and make it possible to be offered in the market.
What year was Santa & Cole founded?
Santa & Cole was founded in 1985 when Javier Nieto Santa, Gabriel Ordeig and Nina Masó, together with a small group of friends and family members, started a small company to edit objects they liked.
What year did Santa & Cole receive the National Design Award?
Santa & Cole received the National Design Award in 1999, granted by the Ministry of Industry and the BCD, in recognition of a relevant career in design. The jury paid tribute to the work carried out in business innovation based on the permanent collaboration with designers", and emphasizing "excellent urban furniture and its publications".
What products does Santa & Cole edit?
Santa & Cole edits lighting items, interior/exterior furniture, urban elements, plant elements (large format trees) and several essay book collections as well as biographical monographs of outstanding designers.
Why does Santa & Cole edit books?
Santa & Cole believes it is necessary to diffuse the design culture, that is to say, a reflection on the material culture, to preserve the memory of designers and objects. For this purpose, it publishes collections of Design Classics and Contemporary Designers in Spanish and English about authors which work is a reference for new generations. In 2005, two new collections have been created: "Los Ojos Fértiles", essays about industrial design and about questions that analyze the evolution of people in their every day\'s life, and the "Management Policy Library", in collaboration with ESADE business school, that includes the most internationally recognized books referring to the theory and the history of management.
Why does Santa & Cole edit and does not manufacture?
Santa & Cole has chosen editing and not manufacturing to develop its business function. That is due to our interest in the intangible, where we find authentic value. This way we select the best suppliers for each component of its products and offer to the public small objects like the Básica Mínima light, or enormous structures like the traffic light support called Monza. "From the spoon to the city", as the spirit of the Bauhaus wanted, on any scale.
What is a design publisher?
A design publisher is a company that does not produce; it orders the manufacturing and assembling of the objects it offers to the public, to external producers. Its work is to select the products it believes in and manage the operations that can turn a drawing or a layout into a final product, and propose the best actions for its commercialization.