Crearte Collections
Crearte Collections is a Catalan upholstered furniture brand headquartered in Cornellà del Terri (Province of Girona, Catalonia). The company's history is unusual and traces back to the early 1970s: the owner of one of Banyoles's most important tanneries — a town traditionally associated with the leather industry — developed the ambitious project of producing upholstered design furniture using the company's own material. He brought together a group of craftspeople recruited from across the world and sent them to England to learn the craft of upholstered furniture-making. This business was forced to close in the late 1970s due to internal financial difficulties. Two of the young apprentices decided to continue independently what they had learned, founding CREARTE — the first company in the province of Girona specialised in high-quality English-style leather upholstered furniture. Girona and Banyoles thus became a reference point for this segment, also in other parts of Europe. In the following years Crearte exported to the Netherlands, Belgium, Egypt and Japan. Difficult market conditions set in from the late 1980s. In 2008 the company made a strategic pivot towards hospitality projects (4- and 5-star hotels at national and European level). In 2011 the brand was relaunched as Crearte Collections — incorporating historical successful models alongside new materials and designs.
Today Crearte Collections is a craft-oriented brand in which every piece is made entirely by hand. Range: sofas (including Chesterfield models), armchairs, modular sofas, beds, chaises longues, chairs, desk chairs, benches, poufs, seats, footrests, stools, headboards, coffee tables. Materials: leather (from selected tanneries), fabrics (linen, velvet, jacquard), wood, jute, rush, double piping, metals, marble. C.O.M. (customer's own material) possible. Full customisation. Showrooms: Cornellà del Terri; in the heart of Girona's old district, next to the Cathedral: PABORDIA — founded by Pere Llosas, today co-managed by his daughter Alicia Llosas.
For architects and hospitality designers, Crearte Collections is the most consistent Catalan address for handcrafted leather and fabric upholstered furniture — with a history that emerged from an English upholstery tradition and positions itself today as a fully customisable, sartorially oriented craft brand with over 50 years of expertise.
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Crearte Collections
Crearte Collections is a Catalan upholstered furniture brand headquartered in Cornellà del Terri (Province of Girona, Catalonia). The company's history is unusual and traces back to the early 1970s: the owner of one of Banyoles's most important tanneries — a town traditionally associated with the leather industry — developed the ambitious project of producing upholstered design furniture using the company's own material. He brought together a group of craftspeople recruited from across the world and sent them to England to learn the craft of upholstered furniture-making. This business was forced to close in the late 1970s due to internal financial difficulties. Two of the young apprentices decided to continue independently what they had learned, founding CREARTE — the first company in the province of Girona specialised in high-quality English-style leather upholstered furniture. Girona and Banyoles thus became a reference point for this segment, also in other parts of Europe. In the following years Crearte exported to the Netherlands, Belgium, Egypt and Japan. Difficult market conditions set in from the late 1980s. In 2008 the company made a strategic pivot towards hospitality projects (4- and 5-star hotels at national and European level). In 2011 the brand was relaunched as Crearte Collections — incorporating historical successful models alongside new materials and designs.
Today Crearte Collections is a craft-oriented brand in which every piece is made entirely by hand. Range: sofas (including Chesterfield models), armchairs, modular sofas, beds, chaises longues, chairs, desk chairs, benches, poufs, seats, footrests, stools, headboards, coffee tables. Materials: leather (from selected tanneries), fabrics (linen, velvet, jacquard), wood, jute, rush, double piping, metals, marble. C.O.M. (customer's own material) possible. Full customisation. Showrooms: Cornellà del Terri; in the heart of Girona's old district, next to the Cathedral: PABORDIA — founded by Pere Llosas, today co-managed by his daughter Alicia Llosas.
For architects and hospitality designers, Crearte Collections is the most consistent Catalan address for handcrafted leather and fabric upholstered furniture — with a history that emerged from an English upholstery tradition and positions itself today as a fully customisable, sartorially oriented craft brand with over 50 years of expertise.