Reports on firms and brands

Inalco isn’t just another company specialising in ceramic paving and surfaces catering to the construction industry, architecture and interior design. It is, first and foremost, a great innovator.

The humble plastic chair owes a debt of gratitude to the Resol Group’s brand DD. Indeed, it has breathed new life into the genre, transforming it from frumpy poor relation into a fun, sexy, versatile, must-have everyone wants to perch on.

Few Spanish companies in the furniture sector have such a strong identity as Joquer. Indeed, the firm hasn’t lost the core values it had when it was founded in 1984 in Gavà, in the province of Barcelona.

Andreu World’s origins can be traced to 1955, the year when a small cabinet-making workshop was set up in Alaquàs, near the city of Valencia.

Even though they don’t grace our homes, we’ve all sat in them – in
cinemas, theatres, at exhibitions, during concerts or at a lecture, in a
football stadium, university or hotel. We’ve all definitely spent hours
sitting on an armchair by Figueras, a Barcelona-based firm which has been designing chairs for public spaces for the past 82 years.

JM Massana and JM Tremoleda are the founders, designers and directors of
this company which currently has a presence in 50 countries around the
world. It specialises in furniture and equipment for the office and
home.