Granda Liturgical Arts

Granda Liturgical Arts (Talleres de Arte Granda) is a Spanish workshop dedicated to sacred and liturgical art, founded in 1891 by the priest and artist Félix Granda y Buylla. Concerned by what he saw as the decline of liturgical art at the end of the nineteenth century, he gathered leading craftsmen and artists with the aim of restoring the splendour that had characterised the Church's artistic tradition for centuries. The enterprise was built on three pillars: high-quality artistic and artisanal creation, theological rigour and richness of message, and a constant search for Beauty. The workshop operates across a wide range of disciplines. Its services include interior design, metalwork (orfebrería), sculpture, textiles, painting, and conservation and restoration, as well as consultancy. It undertakes integral projects in which it designs and executes the full range of liturgical furniture and ornaments, and it also advises on interventions in works of art and cultural heritage. A dedicated online shop offers religious and liturgical articles. Granda's portfolio spans cathedrals, shrines, churches, chapels and institutional buildings. Documented works include the 1927 processional monstrance and expositor for Burgos Cathedral, the 1928 crown of the Virgin of Covadonga at the Sanctuary of Covadonga in Asturias, and a 1935 monument. More recent projects include the chapel of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, the St Michael Archangel Chapel at The Busch School, the Colegio Retamar chapel, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Misión San Juan de Capistrano, the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory, and St Joseph Church. In 1958 the Taller de ornamentos Los Rosales was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer to produce liturgical ornaments of appropriate dignity in design and materials. Los Rosales and Granda shared a vision and worked closely together, and the two initiatives merged in 2016. The company presents itself as carrying 125 years of tradition, and continues to work with clients on bespoke designs intended to reflect each client's needs.

Granda Liturgical Arts traces its origins to 1891, when Félix Granda y Buylla, a priest and artist, founded a workshop of sacred art. Concerned by the state of decline into which liturgical art had fallen from the end of the nineteenth century, he brought together leading artists and craftsmen of the day with a single objective: to restore to sacred art the splendour that had characterised the Church over the centuries. The company's stated pillars were the high-quality artistic and artisanal creation of its pieces, the rigour and richness of the theological message expressed in them, and a constant pursuit of Beauty. Granda chose the great artists and craftsmen with whom to begin his work, founding art workshops in which tradition and art were interwoven in the service of the beauty and dignity of the liturgy. Coordinated under his artistic direction, the handicrafts perfected in Europe over centuries found in the Talleres de Arte GRANDA one of their last refuges. Over the following decades the workshop produced major commissions for religious institutions. Among the historic works documented by the company are a processional monstrance and expositor made in 1927 for Burgos Cathedral in Spain, a crown for the Virgin of Covadonga made in 1928 for the Sanctuary of Covadonga in Asturias, and a monument created in 1935. In 1958 the Taller de ornamentos Los Rosales was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, with the intention of producing liturgical ornaments whose design and materials would give them the dignity required for celebration. From its foundation, Los Rosales and Granda shared a vision and worked closely together. The two initiatives finally merged in 2016, bringing the ornament workshop fully into the Granda organisation. In the modern era Granda has continued to serve a broad range of clients, describing itself as promoting the Faith through Art and quoting its founder's conviction that art, by its spirituality, is the most effective means of spreading ideas. Its contemporary project list includes the chapel of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, the St Michael Archangel Chapel at The Busch School, the Colegio Retamar chapel, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Misión San Juan de Capistrano, the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory and St Joseph Church. The company presents itself as having 125 years of tradition and continues to offer integral projects, bespoke design work, and conservation and restoration services.

• 2016

  Los Rosales and Granda merge into a single organisation.

• 1958

  Taller de ornamentos Los Rosales founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer.

• 1935

  A monument is created by the workshop.

• 1928

  Crown of the Virgin of Covadonga created for the Sanctuary of Covadonga, Asturias.

• 1927

  Processional monstrance and expositor created for Burgos Cathedral, Spain.

• 1891

  Félix Granda y Buylla founds the sacred-art workshop, gathering leading artists and craftsmen to renew liturgical art.

A long-established Spanish sacred-art workshop offering bespoke, theologically informed liturgical art and craftsmanship, from design through execution and restoration.

• Processional monstrance and expositor, Burgos Cathedral (1927)

• Crown of the Virgin of Covadonga, Sanctuary of Covadonga (1928)

• Liturgical vestments and ornaments (Los Rosales workshop)

• Sacred metalwork, sculpture, textiles and painting

• Conservation and restoration services

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