The bag company M2Malletier’s office near Barcelona is more than just a workspace — it’s a postmodern masterpiece.

As Oscar Wilde proved,you can fashion loveliness even from a prison cell. But it’s undoubtedly more pleasant if, like Melissa Losada Bofill, you have an apartment and studio in a postmodern masterpiece crafted by your famed architect father-in-law from the gorgeous detritus of an abandoned cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona.

‘‘I think I am very much influenced by the environment here,’’ she says, as the afternoon sun bathes her all-white workspace in late autumn light. How could it be otherwise? Losada, 31, and her business partner, Marcela Velez, 29, make structured handbags with distinctive barlike hardware. Sold at Bergdorf Goodman and on Net-A-Porter, M2Malletier’s bags (‘‘malletier’’ is French for luggage maker) clearly are inspired by their place of origin: La Fabrica, the complex that Ricardo Bofill.