
Nani Marquina has been distinguished with the Premi Nacional de Cultura 2008 in the Design Modality by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The Jury, presided by the Conseller de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació, Mr. Joan Manuel Tresserras, has granted the prize to the designer “for having turned the brand nanimarquina, created twenty years ago, into a social model of company devoted to the design and making up of textile products“.
The Jury has also considered that Nani Marquina “apart from investigating the raw materials and from cooperating with many creators, has transferred production to the North of India, to work with craftsmen who know ancient techniques and traditions, thus promoting economic emancipation through culture.”
The Premi Nacional de Cultura of Generalitat de Catalunya is annually granted to people or entities for the contributions or more relevant activities of their respective cultural environments, developed throughout the previous year. They were instituted in 1982, and they are continuative since the Generalitat sponsored them between 1932 and 1938.