Two-tone stoneware piece

In 1971 we wrote the following:

“We try to make the identity of each piece disappear by creating shapes that overlap the rectangular grid of the joints with apparent independence. Whether we finish the pavement with whole pieces or with cut ones, the result is of the same type, since we are always sectioning ‘little clouds.’

With a single piece we can compose six different cloud shapes. By rotating them, their asymmetries come into play and sixteen different little clouds appear that either close or open the cloudy and starry sky. The typical orthogonal grid of tile joints disappears, giving way to an organic design that gives the impression of having no module at all.”

The nubecitas (“little clouds”) originated as a decorative graphic motif for the swimming pool and other spaces of the Regás house in Llofriu (Girona). Today what seems most evident to me, beyond the ingenuity of the geometric play, is its clear resonance with comics and the emerging Pop movement of that moment.

(Out of production)