MAKOVIDRIO

makovidrio  Each piece starts as a drawing and ends up being a glass puzzle. We cut each fragment by hand, polish it, and line its edge with copper foil, one by one. Then comes the tin, which flows through all the joints and turns hundreds of loose pieces into a single work.

It is the technique that Louis Comfort Tiffany brought to its peak in New York over a century ago, and it still does not allow for haste. A lamp can take weeks.

We work with colored glass selected for its texture and how it receives light. That’s why the same piece changes depending on the time of day: dull in the morning, glowing at dusk. Everything is handmade in our workshop in Jerez.

About us (main text)

In almost every Andalusian grandmother's house, there was a blue plate from La Cartuja. Hung on the dining room wall, kept in the display case for special days, or simply in the sink every Sunday. One day it fell. It broke. And someone swept up the pieces.

We collect them.

Makovidrio is a small workshop in Jerez de la Frontera where two people work: Inma, who searches for, selects, and cuts each fragment of porcelain, and José Manuel. We do not manufacture in series. We couldn’t even if we wanted to, because each piece depends on what remains of a specific plate: a bird mid-flight, the edge of a garland, a piece of landscape that someone looked at for forty years while eating.

The porcelain from La Cartuja in Seville has been produced since 1841, when Charles Pickman set up his factory in the old Carthusian monastery. That blue is part of the memory of many families from the south. Our work consists of ensuring that memory does not end up in the trash, but in a pendant, a ring, or earrings that can be worn.

We call this sentimental archaeology. We rescue what others have given up for lost.

All the jewelry is mounted in 925 sterling silver. Each one is unique, and when it is sold, no other identical piece will exist again.