The Mossén Sorell-Corona committee has walked through a door no other falla had opened before. For 2027, the design of its two monuments will not come from a craftsman, a fine artist, an illustrator or a graphic studio, but from Emiliana Design Studio, a product design practice specialising above all in furniture and decoration. It is the first time this has happened in the history of the Fallas.

Founded in 1996 by Ana Mir and Emili Padrós, the studio works from Barcelona on products, furniture, lighting and the design of spaces and exhibitions. Its record includes three golds at the ADI-FAD Awards — the highest honour in Spanish industrial design — the most recent this very year, 2026, and the earlier ones in 2024 and 2020. It has also designed exhibitions for the CCCB and the Museu del Disseny.

Materials and processes, the meeting point

Where the committee sees the fit is in the method: Emiliana works from materials and production processes, and that has common ground with the language, the scale and the ephemeral nature of a falla monument. The workshop execution will once again fall to Manolo Martín, who will translate an idea the committee is still keeping under wraps into three-dimensional volume — one they say will surprise for its scale, its materials and its arrangement.

The commission covers both fallas. The children's monument will also be born from an Emiliana idea, in line with what Corona has argued for decades: that the children's falla should be a thematic rereading of the main one, approached through play and creativity.

A committee that collects new disciplines

This is not an isolated turn. In recent years the squares of this Carme neighbourhood committee have hosted proposals from street art, conceptual art and graphic design with international standing. With product design, Corona adds a discipline entirely new to the festival and argues for the falla as an open artistic medium, able to absorb viewpoints that had never reached the monument before.

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