Cerámica Montgatina, a porcelain manufacturer founded in 1935 in Mongot (Barcelona), has collaborated with the designer Gemma Bernal to create its Ola crockery line – crockery in soft, organic shapes designed specially for the chef Ferrán Adriá. Montgatina has also produced what it calls its lunar plate, eclipse plate and Oh Luna! crockery – a design created by Taller Laia.

The Barcelona-based company Lekúe, a world leader in the design of silicon objects, recently unveiled the latest, most innovative pieces in its line of goods: a lemon squeezer which avoids splashing juice, a cooking grid (a kind of silicon basket for cooking food in boiling water) and a new kitchen utensil, called Decopen, which enables you to decorate sweet and savoury dishes with your favourite sauce.

Délica, a company based in northern Spain, transforms everyday home accessories into innovative, practical products. Its first success story was its first range, and other products have since followed, for example the Lorea fruit basket and Aurea collections designed for storing and drying crockery.

Meanwhile, Facesdesign presents Antoni Arola's Eggs bowls, Luki Huber’s perforated spoon, Julia Mariscal’s ‘Cuchara para Escribir’ (a spoon you dip into coffee, then scribble with using the coffee like ink) and Martín Azúa's witty but simple Phantom bread basket, made by combining two simple metal hoops with a napkin.

Lladró has recently launched Jaime Hayón’s chopstick-holder resembing a toy – in typical Hayón fashion – which is part of the designer’s Scenes collection for the Spanish firm. In another Lladró line, Equus, brainchild of designer Bodo Sperlein and part of his Re-cyclos Magical collection, the pieces’ classical horse’s heads and hoofs surreally double as handles.

Pordamsa combines creativity, innovation and tradition in its products made of white porcelain sourced from the area of Bisbal in northeast Spain.

Also worthy of note is Sargadelos, a highly original company which transforms rich Galician clays into innovative, decorated porcelain pieces, and makes ceramics ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde.

Other objects for the kitchen which somehow typify Spanish design are Rafael Marquina’s vinegar cruets, manufactured by the company Mobles114. Less well-known but equally witty are the Macalula ‘tablecloth’, a tiled ceramic piece made using offcuts of tablecloths, Pedro Ochando’s ladle (a wooden spoon incorporating a spaghetti measurer) and Tomás Alonso's Stamp cutlery.