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Metrópolis, the newest product by Lladró Atelier, was unveiled recently at the Paris design fair Maison et Objet. The piece, by Spanish firm Lladró, is a powerfully evocative collection of functional objects such as large jars, lamps, mirrors and boxes. Their distinctive feature is that they’re all shaped like buildings or skyscrapers. Grouped together, they look like a very original city. A far cry from realism, they suggest an imaginary, futuristic, occasionally Art Deco metropolis.



When you look more closely at this collection, you realise how detailed and meticulously crafted its different textures are. The craftsmanship involved recalls detailed, delicate embroidery. Ornamental and functional, these pieces, as is common with Lladró’s hand-crafted work, are made with huge attention to detail – almost to perfection.
Given the degree of workmanship required, it’s not surprising to hear that the designs – in neutral, soothing colours such as white, ivory, buttermilk and various shades of grey – took two years to conceive.

Lladró Atelier is a new creative department within Lladró, set up under the creative guidance of designer Jaime Hayón. It’s a laboratory of ideas which welcomes projects proposed by the company’s in-house designers as well as by external designers. Lladró Atelier wholeheartedly endorses the idea of luxury, hand-crafted goods, values the one-off – and fosters the tradition of craftsmanship using porcelain and creation of original, artistically contemporary work. Another well-known, well-received piece dreamt up by the now-renowned Lladró Atelier is its equally carefully crafted Parrots Party collection of 2010.