Conceived by Jaime Hayon, The Guest is an invitation to cutting-edge artists from around the world to create a distinctive personality for an original porcelain character. Lladró Atelier’s new collection, The Guest, was in the center of the spotlight in the Lladró booth at the Maison et Objet fair in Paris.
Conceived by Jaime Hayon for Lladró Atelier, The Guest is an ongoing project which invites cutting-edge artists from around the world to create a distinctive personality for an original porcelain character. With this
exciting and fascinating concept the Spanish brand is going for the most ground-breaking design.
The project is totally in tune with the founding mission of Lladró Atelier, a space set aside for the creativity of the brand’s in-house designers as well as external artists who bring new ideas to the world of porcelain. With this collaboration, The Guest becomes a kind of platform where artists from various different disciplines work alongside the world’s leading brand in the creation and commercialization of art porcelain, which puts all its potential at the service of creativity.
The outcome of this joint endeavor can be seen in the first pieces from the collection, on view at Maison et Objet. Three Guests each one in two sizes, the large in a limited edition of 250 units and the small in a numbered series. Six spectacular creations reflecting the personal universe of each collaborating artist: Jaime Hayon, the American artist Tim Biskup and the Japanese Studio Devilrobots.
Like all Lladró works, these Guests are handcrafted at the brand’s workshops in Valencia, following a completely artisan process. The thorough understanding of porcelain and technical expertise of the team at the workshop coupled with the work hand-in-hand with the invited artists has resulted in a series of pieces that are as elegant as they are ground-breaking, amusing and unique.
As always, at the fair in Paris, Lladró is also presenting a wide range of other new issues, featuring a spectrum of different themes, finishes and textures. With a long artistic tradition and high international profile, Lladró stays true to its ambition to remain contemporary and to keep exploring new stylistic paths in art porcelain without forgetting its roots.
