Gandiablasco 1941-2016, 75 years after

The search for quality, originality and determination to retain its free spirit are the common denominators between the three generations responsible for creating and evolving the GANDIABLASCO company.

What good is it to have reached a hundred countries, have showrooms scattered across the globe if when you look in the mirror you cannot see where you came from? GANDIABLASCO reinvented itself after a journey lasting four decades (from the early 40s to the late 80s) in the manufacture and export of high quality contemporary design blankets; at that time it was a risky venture.

True to its origins the company created several lines of home textiles, as well as designing carpets through the GAN brand. The emphasis was on finding a new and personal language through good design.

In the mid 90s quite unexpectedly the GANDIABLASCO company debuted in the field of outdoor furniture with Na Xemena, a small collection that surprised everyone. Nobody got it! But it was a matter of perseverance, and persevering.

These facts provided the catalyst for a new destiny: elements that proved to be a milestone within the habitat sector, rugs that broke the mould, furniture that erased the boundaries between inside and outside.

The GANDIABLASCO headquarters building reflects just this through its architecture. But above all else expresses the capacity to detect these values, recover and optimise them. It's not enough to look we have to see. And behave accordingly.

“A GANDIABLASCO Odyssey, Back to the islands”, is the new furniture catalogue that invites you on a journey through the various collections, a look into the background for each of the pieces until you come up with the most comfortable chaise-longue in the catalogue. In this way, exhausted after the long journey, we set ourselves down under a pine tree by the Mediterranean to feel the essence of the company against our skin.

75 years later the return trip back to Ca Na Xemena represents the aesthetic, conceptual and spiritual culture of GANDIABLASCO, leaving behind traces of its origins, the breeze from the sea of ancestral civilizations. A personal way of understanding what being Mediterranean means, communion with Nature, sensuality, light and a certain mysticism. Although the Na Xemena collection by GANDIABLASCO can also be read as a fable with a message:

“Follow your instinct, don’t ignore your intuition, believe in your dreams, they will guide you far better than any compass. You laugh? We can live without furniture and even without a roof. But not without dreams.” Matilde Oriola, writer and journalist

Source: GandiaBlasco

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