English 17 Those products from international brands made under licence were iconic items, very well designed by top world-class designers, which began to circulate in Spain in the early 1960s as a sign of the new though still tentative and incipient modernization process. Examples of this were the Martínez-Medinas with Arflex and Tecno, but also Rafael García, who produced and marketed the Herman Miller and Knoll Associates brands in Spain. From the 1950s, the Martínez-Medina company worked intensively for the Spanish shipbuilding industry, especially for the Unión Naval de Levante (UNL) and Trasmediterránea companies. Through the good offices of the Italian architect and designer Gustavo Pulitzer, this work brought them into contact with Arflex, and hence with Italian design, which they began to produce and market in Spain. Marine interior design was also a space of connection with modern art: Joaquín Michavila and Anzo, among other artists of the Valencian avant-garde, painted the murals on UNL’s ships. INTERNATIONAL DESIGN GAINS A FOOTHOLD
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