Nina Masó & Gabriel Ordeig

Nina Masó & Gabriel Ordeig Cole are designers and co-founders of Santa & Cole. Nina Masó studied interior design and, in 1982, she met designer Gabriel Ordeig Cole. Together, they worked on various interior design and lighting projects before founding Santa & Cole. Masó believed in creating products that were beautiful, simple, and timeless, and was an ambassador of comforting and welcoming light. Through this philosophy, she designed luminaires that explore the expressive potential of colour.

Gabriel Ordeig Cole was born in London and moved to Barcelona with his family in 1960. After beginning studies in Philosophy, Cole decided to pursue an education at Cardiff Arts School, which he completed in 1978. In his early career, Gabriel Ordeig undertook many interior design and lighting projects. After founding Santa & Cole with Nina Masó and Javier Nieto Santa, he designed La Bella Durmiente in collaboration with Nina Masó. This was one of the first lamps in Santa & Cole’s catalogue and was an innovative and provocative exploration into reflected light and colouring the fluorescence.

"What remains impalpable, mysterious and intangible is not the electricity, but the light." - Gabriel Ordeig Cole