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Maria Luisa Samaranch Collection

Collector
Published: 02.04.2025
Maria Luisa Samaranch Collection. Maria Luisa Samaranch

Collection Statement      View / hide description

November 1986 was a key month in the beginning of my contemporary jewellery collection. With a passion for art, jewellery and design, and having been a professional graphic designer since 1977, I decided to open a tiny space named Hipòtesi in Barcelona dedicated to contemporary jewellery. This venue later expanded to include contemporary ceramics, glass and textile art.

In those days, at the end of the 1980s, the jewellery industry was split into two distinct trends: One with a completely ...

About the Collector

Maria Luisa Samaranch is a Graphic designer, book publisher, and jewellery collector, Maria Luisa Samaranch founded Hipòtesi Gallery in Barcelona (1986–2011), which won the FAD 100 Years Medal in 2003. The gallery specialised in contemporary jewellery before expanding to textiles, glass, and ceramics. In 2005, she founded the publishing house Sd·edicions / Mudito & Co, which won the FAD Medal in 2007 and several Gourmand Book Awards. From 2020-2022, she served as the president of A-Fad, and she is now a board member and one of the presidents of FAD.

Publications      View / hide publications

Book:  12 joieres, 1965-1990. Art, disseny, experimentació. Sd Edicions:  Barcelona,  2021
Publisher:  SD Edicions. 2019
Book:  Ramon Puig Cuyàs, when jewellery becomes a metaphor. Sd. edicions:  Barcelona,  2019
Book:  Enric Majoral: Dibuixos / Joies. Majoral, EnricSd edicions:  Barcelona,  2006
Book:  Josep Civit. Joies. Canut, M. Ángels; Civit, Josep; Samaranch, Mª LuisaSd Edicions:  Barcelona,  2005
Book:  David Watkins encounters. Sd-edicions-Hipòtesi joies:  Barcelona,  2004