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Gandia Blasco strengthens Los Angeles presence

23.06.2026 | 6:30
View into the new Gandia Blasco Group showroom at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Photo: Gandia Blasco Group

Gandia Blasco Group is getting serious in Los Angeles. The Spanish group has opened its own showroom at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. According to the company, it is the group’s first own showroom on the US West Coast. At first glance, that sounds like straightforward sales expansion. It is. But it also says quite a lot about where the market is moving: closer to architects, interior designers and project decision-makers.

The location is no accident. The Pacific Design Center is one of the relevant addresses for the design and interiors sector in Los Angeles. The new showroom is located in Suite G166 and presents the group’s three brands: GANDIABLASCO, GAN and DIABLA. So this is not only about the group’s established outdoor expertise, but also about rugs, textiles, seating and accessories for indoor and outdoor use.

For Gandia Blasco, the move is above all a signal to the project business. With the new location, the group is explicitly targeting designers, architects and specifiers. In the premium segment, this is often where decisions are made long before a product appears in a retail context: hotels, restaurants, roof terraces, private residences and high-end work environments.

On the US West Coast, outdoor has long since stopped being a seasonal category. Exterior areas are not treated as leftover space, but as fully fledged rooms: pool decks, terraces, lounges, rooftops and transitional zones between living, working and hospitality. Anyone who wants to be part of that conversation needs more than polished product images. They need presence, material samples, advice, fast coordination and an address where planners do not have to search for long.

Los Angeles is not entirely new territory for Gandia Blasco. In 2019, the brand was already present in West Hollywood through a presentation linked to the design gallery MASS Beverly. The new location at the Pacific Design Center now marks a permanent, own presence in one of the most important design clusters in the United States. That is the difference between: we are dropping by. And: we are staying.

The brand logic is also worth noting. GANDIABLASCO represents the group’s more architectural outdoor side, GAN extends the offer into textiles and rugs, while DIABLA adds colour, informality and a younger outdoor language. Together, this creates a broader proposition for project planners than a pure garden-furniture appearance. That should help in California, where indoor and outdoor spaces increasingly merge anyway.

The opening also underlines why physical showrooms still matter in the digital age. Especially in the contract business, it is not enough to present collections cleanly online. Materials have to be touched, proportions experienced in space and combinations tested directly. Brands that want to win specifications have to be part of planners’ everyday routines, not just their inboxes.

For the European design market, the opening is another example of premium suppliers treating the United States more deliberately as a growth market in its own right. Not through grand claims, but through local nodes where brand, product and project advice come together. Los Angeles is a very logical place for that.

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California gets closer

Gandia Blasco strengthens Los Angeles presence

23.06.2026 | 6:30
View into the new Gandia Blasco Group showroom at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Photo: Gandia Blasco Group

Gandia Blasco Group is getting serious in Los Angeles. The Spanish group has opened its own showroom at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. According to the company, it is the group’s first own showroom on the US West Coast. At first glance, that sounds like straightforward sales expansion. It is. But it also says quite a lot about where the market is moving: closer to architects, interior designers and project decision-makers.

The location is no accident. The Pacific Design Center is one of the relevant addresses for the design and interiors sector in Los Angeles. The new showroom is located in Suite G166 and presents the group’s three brands: GANDIABLASCO, GAN and DIABLA. So this is not only about the group’s established outdoor expertise, but also about rugs, textiles, seating and accessories for indoor and outdoor use.

For Gandia Blasco, the move is above all a signal to the project business. With the new location, the group is explicitly targeting designers, architects and specifiers. In the premium segment, this is often where decisions are made long before a product appears in a retail context: hotels, restaurants, roof terraces, private residences and high-end work environments.

On the US West Coast, outdoor has long since stopped being a seasonal category. Exterior areas are not treated as leftover space, but as fully fledged rooms: pool decks, terraces, lounges, rooftops and transitional zones between living, working and hospitality. Anyone who wants to be part of that conversation needs more than polished product images. They need presence, material samples, advice, fast coordination and an address where planners do not have to search for long.

Los Angeles is not entirely new territory for Gandia Blasco. In 2019, the brand was already present in West Hollywood through a presentation linked to the design gallery MASS Beverly. The new location at the Pacific Design Center now marks a permanent, own presence in one of the most important design clusters in the United States. That is the difference between: we are dropping by. And: we are staying.

The brand logic is also worth noting. GANDIABLASCO represents the group’s more architectural outdoor side, GAN extends the offer into textiles and rugs, while DIABLA adds colour, informality and a younger outdoor language. Together, this creates a broader proposition for project planners than a pure garden-furniture appearance. That should help in California, where indoor and outdoor spaces increasingly merge anyway.

The opening also underlines why physical showrooms still matter in the digital age. Especially in the contract business, it is not enough to present collections cleanly online. Materials have to be touched, proportions experienced in space and combinations tested directly. Brands that want to win specifications have to be part of planners’ everyday routines, not just their inboxes.

For the European design market, the opening is another example of premium suppliers treating the United States more deliberately as a growth market in its own right. Not through grand claims, but through local nodes where brand, product and project advice come together. Los Angeles is a very logical place for that.

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