Son of the furniture maker Josep Ribas Fort, who had founded a company with J. Pons (Ebenisteria Pons i Ribas), he succeeded his father in 1897 and moved the workshop and shop. The new workshop became a meeting place for intellectuals and artists of the time and, although it continued in the same line of business as before, increased its output and adapted its forms to the Modernista aesthetic. At the beginning of the 20th century they had to find a new artistic director and hired Albert Simonis, a Dutchman who gave the workshop a new character, according a greater presence to floral Modernisme in the articles it produced.
He worked with A. Clapés on the decoration of a number of buildings.
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