Nina Masšo studied interior design and began her career designing stands at the Fira de Barcelona. She founded a studio with other colleagues and, in 1982, met the designer Gabriel Ordeig Cole (1954-1994). Together, they began a personal and professional relationship, carrying out various lighting and interior design projects for emblematic Barcelona bars and nightclubs such as El Boliche, El Café del Sol, Cibeles, the Al Dente restaurant, and the Sísí bar. In 1983, Nina Masšo opened The Paspoc shop in Cardedeu, where she sold her personal selection of interior design products and gifts.
In 1985, together with Javier Nieto Santa and Gabriel Ordeig Cole, she founded the design publishing house Santa & Cole. It was a novel concept in Spain at that time, which she applied to the field of industrial design. Their proposal promoted a warm light that had nothing to do with the standards of the time.
With Gabriel, she designed the Sleeping Beauty lamp, a revolutionary design that colored fluorescent light.
Nina was an ambassador of comfort and welcoming light, "a friendly light, because good light makes you better." "It's about people looking beautiful in the light." Her vocation led her to travel the world defending her lighting concept in a traveling presentation inspired by García Lorca's La Barraca, which she made her own.
As an interior designer, she also led projects such as the Embassy of Local Democracy in Sarajevo, promoted by the Barcelona City Council in 1996, the Telefónica Corporate University in La Roca (Barcelona) in 2007, and the Casa Bonay Hotel in Barcelona. Her last major project was the restoration of the building that houses the headquarters of Santa &. Cole, in Parc de Belloch (Barcelona).
Since 1985, Nina was editor and a key figure in shaping the soul of Santa & Cole. She built the company's image and staging. Her signature style was based on a sensitive and warm perspective towards the environment. Every product she edited is an ode to beauty, simplicity, and timelessness.