We turn bold ideas into objects of light.
Parachilna is a Barcelona lighting house where tradition and experimentation have always gone hand in hand — every piece designed with intent, and made to last.
A platform for bold ideas — lighting as a medium to investigate emotion, material and form.
We collaborate with designers and artisans who challenge convention, blending the discipline of craft with the freedom to experiment. Our approach is exploratory: we treat light not as a product feature, but as a material worth interrogating — always chasing honest, and often unexpected, outcomes.
Every idea we take on is a risk of some kind. Supporting work that is technically demanding, or simply unproven, is never the easy path — but it is exactly what keeps what we do meaningful, and what has defined the house across three generations of making.
A legacy of light, three generations deep.
Nearly a century of lighting sits behind us — but the studio that carries it forward is young. A renewed team, unburdened by nostalgia, treats that inheritance as a starting point rather than a template: proof that the oldest ideas are best kept alive by the newest hands.
The Riera family
The story begins when the Riera family first steps into the world of lighting — the roots that everything since has grown from.
Alta Costura
Josep Aregall's Alta Costura launches under Metalarte — a collection whose materials and proportions still feel compelling today.
Parachilna is founded
A renewed spirit built on that inheritance, rooted in craftsmanship, innovation and design culture.
Back into production
We reissue pieces of design history like Alta Costura — preserving the construction that made them matter, then and now.
Assembled in-house, made in Spain.
Just outside Barcelona, in the industrial enclave of Colonia Güell — a place with deep architectural roots linked to Gaudí — we assemble all our products in-house, in a space full of history and quiet energy that flows into what we create.
Every piece is made in Spain with trusted local partners and materials. And because we believe in responsible production, all our lamps are fully repairable — built to last, and to be cared for over time.
“It was technically demanding — a moving textile structure powered by light — but we believed in the concept, and the team behind it.”
On developing Oïphorique with Atelier Oï. Backing ideas like this is always a challenge; it's also what keeps our work honest.
Built through collaboration.
Our catalogue brings together voices from different generations and backgrounds — and making them coexist coherently is part of what defines us.
Visit the atelier where the light is made.
Our Colonia Güell workshop is open by appointment. Come see the process — the sketches, the tests, and the pieces taking form.