The arts of porcelain and jewellery are brought together in a unique collection by the Spanish porcelain company on view at the World Watch and Jewellery Show in Basel, from April 24th to May 2nd.For the forth year running, Lladró is taking part in Baselworld, the world’s most important watch and jewellery show, from April 24th through May 2nd, its latest achievements in the masterly skills of porcelain work.
Among them, it is highlighting The Enchanted Garden collection, a series of creations combining the arts of porcelain and jewellery in a completely artisan process. Flowers, one of Lladró’s signature elements, shine with greater strength than ever in this new collection that couples the delicacy of porcelain leaves and petals with precious stones and metals.
The Enchanted Garden collection represents a new achievement in the brand’s masterly skills of flowers creation. Entirely handcrafted by the Lladró artists, petals are elaborated one by one with a view to faithfully reproducing reality, resulting almost real flowers that will last forever. In addition, the large flowers in this collection are specially complex because the difficulty involved in elaborating the petals. The level of transparency of the porcelain in some parts of them requires a true virtuoso exercise of modelling that only the best artists are able to achieve.
The precious stones, also set by hand, are sapphires, rubelittes, amethysts, rutile quartz, diamonds, emeralds, fire opals and peridots. Each flower in The Enchanted Garden comes in two distinct finishes: one in which the pistils and stems are made in 18-karat gold, and another version in which these elements are 925 hallmarked silver, plated in 24-karat gold. Finally, every one is inside a glass urn, with a velvet cushion on which this delicate creation sits, protecting its eternal beauty in a loving wink at the Beauty and the Beast romantic story.
This collection of timeless Nature jewels will share room at the Lladró booth in Baselworld with sculptures in High Porcelain, the brand’s maximum artistic category. So those visiting the fair will have the possibility to know, among other pieces, Queen of the Nile, an icon in the collection and the largest piece ever made in a porcelain workshop, together with new introductions in this category.
The High Porcelain sculptures are highly complex pieces elaborated in limited editions, in which Lladró strives to take the artistic potential of porcelain to its limits. The use of meticulous decorative techniques such as the application by hand of precious metal lustre, is a constant in Lladró throughout the years and reaches its greatest expression in its High Porcelain sculptures.Like all Lladró works, the pieces on display at Baselworld 2013 have been handcrafted at The City of Porcelain, in Tavernes Blanques (Valencia, Spain). There, around 1,000 people work in the elaboration of pieces that the multinational exports to over 120 countries on the five continents.
After 60º years at the vanguard of porcelain, Lladró continues to create all its pieces following an entirely handmade artisan process that has garnered the brand its worldwide fame.