Maite Prats works from Banyoles, in the heart of inland Catalonia, with a practice she has built patiently — from this singular city that has undoubtedly shaped her understanding of space. Trained as an interior designer at the DIAC in Barcelona, she completed a Master’s in Ephemeral Architecture at Elisaba. She founded her studio in 2009 and has led it since as Creative Director, alongside architects Mariana Colmenero, Guillermo Corsunsky, and Aurora Gavaldà.

Each project begins with a careful reading of the place: its proportions, its light, its history. From that reading, Prats works through reduction — stripping away the superfluous to arrive at the essential — with the conviction that the most significant decisions are also the most restrained. Natural light is an element that structures, defines atmospheres, articulates the depth of materials, and gives measure to time. Materials, for their part, are chosen for their honesty and permanence, for their capacity to age with dignity and to establish a sincere relationship with whoever inhabits the space.

Prats pursues coherent ones: places where calm and clarity are conditions of habitability. That ethical orientation is recognisable throughout her work, from residential interventions to the commercial and hospitality projects that form part of her trajectory.

The studio holds a long series of recognitions at the Girona Interior Design Biennial, where it has received awards in successive editions from 1997 to 2024, as well as mentions at the Premios Coac de Girona and a finalist placement at the FAD Interiorismo Awards in 2018. In 2008, her work was included in the publication Minimalisme, la sobrietat en la Arquitectura — a title that could serve as an inadvertent synthesis of her own method.