While still very young he went to live in Barcelona and joined the workshop of A. Rigalt, where he learned the technique of enamel on glass. He later worked in the workshop of F. Vidal before going to study at La Llotja, the Barcelona School of Fine Arts.

For personal reasons he had to go to Mexico, where he attended the National School of Fine Arts and the American Mr. Wenwoor workshop, where he worked on some enamelled stained glass windows. He returned to Barcelona in 1908 and went back to F. Vidal's workshop, where he dedicated himself to various artistic fields, such as furniture design, interior decorating and enamel applications for different objects. He was chairperson of Foment de les Arts Decoratives (Promotion of the Decorative Arts - FAD) from 1922 to 1949, and as such wrote various theoretical and popularising articles which made a name for him.