The Santa & Cole Group has been up and running for 23 years, and in this time has become a global point of reference in the world of design.
The Santa & Cole brand encompasses various groups of products: indoor lighting and furniture, urban lighting and furniture, books and elements for urban reforestation projects. The Group has teams of professionals (interior designers, architects and gardeners) working in these different fields, all striving towards a single goal: the achievement of excellence in design.
Santa & Cole has been operating in California, Florida, France, Holland and Germany since 1988, but its most significant push in the international market came in 2004 when it opened its first subsidiary in Italy.
In 2007, Santa & Cole exported approximately 26% of its total sales, to over 30 different countries. In line with its international expansion plan, on the 4th July 2008, the company opened its first showroom in Frankfurt.
The Santa & Cole showroom in Germany is located right in the centre of the city, on the Schäfergasse, nestled between one of the most emblematic designer stores in the city (Leptien 3) and the Bärbel Grässlin gallery. It is an expansive luminous space covering an area of 250 m2 with views of a pretty internal courtyard, where Santa & Cole displays not only its interior decoration collections but also part of its urban furniture collection.
Since it was founded in Barcelona in 1985, Santa & Cole has held by the same philosophy: “We only produce objects we identify with. They are objects with warmth and light, comfortable and homely. We focus on putting together a catalogue of products and we entrust the design and production to other companies”
The firm has worked with a total of 88 designers from all over the world, some illustrious figures, other younger designers and even total unknowns. These collaborations include eminent international designers such as Vico Magistretti, Arne Jacobsen and Philllipe Starck, together with Spanish designers such as Miguel Milá and Antoni Arola.
The Santa & Cole catalogue includes a number of products that have won prestigious design awards, for example the ADI-FAD Gold Delta Award 1966 for the American Lighting Series, designed by Miguel Milá; the IDEA 2007 and the Red Dot Award 2008 for the Key bicycle stand designed by Lagranja.
Santa & Cole’s business ventures have also received the National Design Award (1999), the Prince Felipe Prize for Business Excellence (2006) and the Design Management Europe Award (2007).
