Arcos returns to Casa Decor 2026 with “Umbral”, a space where matter and gesture become architecture

For the second year in a row, Arcos is participating in Casa Decor with an installation designed together with Lucas and Hernández-Gil architects that brings the brand’s philosophy —precision, technique, materiality— to the language of space and art.

Arcos returns to Casa Decor. And it does so with a project that goes beyond the product: Umbral, an installation designed together with the studio Lucas and Hernández-Gil architects, conceived as a space of beginning, of transit, of welcome.

Casa Decor is Spain’s leading interior design, decoration, and design event. Each year, the sector’s most prominent brands transform the spaces of a historic Madrid building into spaces that blend architecture, art, and brand concept. This year, Arcos occupies one of the first spaces on the tour—a strategic location to offer visitors their first experience.

And Arcos isn’t the only brand represented at this year’s event. Arcos tableware is also featured in the Savia space by SixtyPro, on the same ground floor, where a terracotta-toned kitchen seamlessly integrates design, materials, and functionality into a continuous visual flow. Two distinct ways of experiencing Casa Decor, but one shared conviction: that the kitchen is much more than just a place to cook.

Light, color, matter and cut: the four axes of the project

Threshold is built on four elements that are also values ​​of Arches.

Light, embodied in a large central lamp, doesn’t illuminate the space; it interprets it. Color acts as an emotional tool, defining atmospheres and guiding the visitor. Matter is expressed through two four-meter-high vertical totems, constructed from repurposed metal dies from the knife-making process—a decision that integrates sustainability, industrial history, and design into a single object. And the cut, understood as a foundational gesture, becomes a symbol of beginnings: the light that passes through, the architecture that opens up.

The space is completed with a series of niches that reinterpret classic still lifes: small scenes halfway between the traditional and the sophisticated, where the product of Arcos takes center stage within the architectural narrative.

“Cutting is sharing”: the motto made into space

Umbral connects directly with Arcos’s positioning. The cut is not just a function: it is the first gesture in the kitchen, the one that activates everything that comes after—preparing, cooking, sharing. In this space, that same idea is translated into architecture: a threshold that inaugurates the journey, that invites you to cross it.

“Design is not an add-on, it is a conviction, a way of thinking about the product from the very beginning.”

Roberto Arcos, CEO at Arcos

Design and sustainability as a commitment

In line with the #SustainableHomeDecor initiative, the project incorporates materials directly linked to Arcos’ production process. The metal dies that shape the vertical pieces are not decoration: they are industrial history transformed into architecture. A way of closing the loop between manufacturing and cultural expression.

Visit Umbral at Casa Decor 2026

Casa Decor 2026 is being held at number 11 Calle San Agustín, Madrid, in a late 19th-century building in the style of the urban mansions of the period. The exhibition is open from April 9 to May 24, 2026.

The Arcos x Lucas and Hernández-Gil space is on Ground Floor — 04.