10, May 2015
Alcuzcuz: a lifestyle by Jaime Parladé
"What I have is a good eye; about good taste...I do not like to use that expression because good taste is something so relative and so difficult to define.""More than good taste what one must posses is a good eye to see things. In other words: The capacity to enter a place and see something that you are interested in and that you like. [ read more ... ]
26, April 2015
Crab and lobster plates
The story of a Majolica lobster and crab plate by Alvaro José of Caldas da Rainha ( 1880 ).We became obsessed with finding these decorative majolica plates after we saw them hanging on a wall in a restaurant in Lisbon in october 2014. We then missed the opportunity of buying them at the flea market that saturday even though we [ read more ... ]
12, April 2015
Politics, crafts, ecology, tradition and disruption at the Waterweavers show.
Thanks to the advice of my dear Colombian friend Cristina Grajales, whose decorative arts gallery in New York is home to some of the artists below, I spent my morning at the Waterweavers show in the Espacio Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid, my brain and senses exploding from beauty, intellect and refinement overload. I would tell you to [ read more ... ]