Almerich turns 70 this year

The firm celebrates this with Party — one of its latest contemporary lighting collections.

When Antonio Almerich Vilaneuva founded lighting compamy Almerich in 1943, he couldn’t have known that, 70 years later, his family-run business would be world-renowned in the decorative lighting sector. To celebrate this, the firm has just launched two new lighting ranges — one classical, the other comtemporary. These include both its best-selling products and latest pieces, which were unveiled at the Hábitat Valencia design fair in February.

One of its latest collections in the contemporary style is Party, a pendant light designed by Ramón Arnau of Valencia-based design studio, Sleep Late Projects. The starting point — and inspiration — for this piece was the idea that all parties take place around a table — and require lighting. Party’s idiosyncratic design — its sequence of lightbulbs at apparently random angles — aims to convey a feeling of disorder resulting from chance. The light is made of metal and has two standard finishes: matt black combined with coloured lightbulbs or, for a more classic look, pink-toned copper.

The company’s contemporary lighting is all high quality and well-designed. It’s produced by an in-house team of industrial designers and engineers, although the firm also collaborates extensively with such talented designers and design studios as Mermelada Estudio — which created Almerich’s Maya and Raining Day collections — Christian Vivanco, who has dreamt up several lines, including Alux and TPK, Hugo Tejada, Alum Design Works, Sal i Oli, and Nacho Timón, among others.