Marset

There is a phrase that has guided Marset since its beginning, and it tells you almost everything about the house: think about the light, not the lamp. It is a small reversal, but a profound one. Where much of the design world begins with the object, Marset begins with the glow, and asks the form to follow.

A house built in Barcelona

Marset is a Barcelona-based, family-run lighting house founded in 1965. Its beginnings were in metal casting and foundry work, and that early fluency with material and making still runs through everything the house produces. Over the decades it evolved from foundry to lighting design and manufacture, though one thing has held constant across generations: it remains family-owned. There is a continuity to Marset that you tend to find only in houses run by people who care how their name is carried forward.

That founding philosophy, to think about the light and not the lamp, is genuinely theirs, and it remains central to how the brand understands its own work. The designers treat light as the subject rather than the by-product. The lamp is simply what makes the light possible.

Designers and the quality of light

Marset works with both in-house and external designers, with Joan Gaspar among the names most closely associated with the house. What unites the collection is not a signature shape but a sensibility: a design language built around warmth, diffusion and the quality of light rather than technical spectacle. A Marset piece rarely announces itself. It works quietly, shaping how a room feels once the sun has gone.

Manufacturing remains based in Spain, keeping design and making close together, the way it has been since the foundry years.

The arrival of Lauro

Which brings us to Lauro, the newest expression of that thinking, and the reason we have paused to look more closely at the house behind it. Lauro continues the Marset lineage in the most fluent way: light shaped for warmth and presence, an object as considered in its restraint as in its detail.

We are proud to hold Marset exclusively in New Zealand, and prouder still to introduce Lauro to the spaces and homes that will live with it. It is a range that rewards the kind of attention Marset has always designed for, felt first in the quality of the light, and only then in the quiet confidence of the form.

To see the Lauro range, or to talk through Marset for a project, our teams in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch would be glad to help.