Based in Barcelona, Isern Serra founded his eponymous interior design studio in 2008, and today is one of the most versatile design firms on the Spanish scene. With delicacy and cultural sensitivity, he develops an architectural language that takes materiality and concept into account in each project. The result is contemporary, vibrant and essential forms with clear Mediterranean roots. The purity of lines contrasts with the richness of textures, resulting in a tactile, serene and timeless design. The raw with the elaborate, sophistication with nudity, the traditional with the digital, the sculptural with synthesis, the real with the dreamlike. It is a vernacular simplicity with a contemporary look.

All his environments incessantly invoke the sensitive and the human. They are singular places, structures and objects, capable of evoking unique atmospheres, and that mix reality with imagination. In them, the senses and the physical experience of space, textures and light place people at the center.

Functionality, durability and warmth are the main components of Serra's work. The combination of traditional and artisanal techniques with more experimental contemporary processes, neutral colors, unique and bespoke pieces or local features characterize the studio's projects, which include furniture, lighting, creative direction, spaces, exhibition installations and more. It is this multidisciplinary, immersive and global approach to design that is redefining the new interiors in our country. Text by Rocío Ley

“It is in our hands to make progress, modern building systems and prefabrication possible while preserving the human quality of the popular constructions of the past. One of the most important problems for a modern architect is to make progress compatible with the humanity radiated by the old constructions”. José A. Coderch de Sentmenat. Historia de unas castañuelas (COAM Magazine), 1987.