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ADDRESS:
Calle Cañada Real, Nº 149 – 45570 Puente del Arzobispo
ACTIVITY
Cerámica Santa Catalina specialises in making hand-painted majolica tiles, as well as the manufacture of clay tiles and traditional bricks for flooring and facades.
They produce tiles patterned with Greek frets, decorative tiles in general and all kinds of ceramic claddings.
Their clay products undergo a first… firing and are then glazed or decorated manually with oxides. After the decorating or painting phase they are returned to the kiln for firing at over 1000ºC, resulting in objects finished in a rich range of colours.
It is worth noting that they make their enamels and colours with their own mill according to techniques learned from their forebears, giving their artefacts the texture and appearance of olden times.
The traditional colours of their ceramics notably include decoration in copper green on a cream-white background, along with burgundy red and cobalt blue.
TRAINING
Jorge Gutiérrez de la Cal learned the trade at a tender age from his grandfather, Pedro de la Cal. He belongs to a sixth family generation of artisans who have worked ceramics in Puente del Arzobispo since 1817.
SELECTED WORK
– Tilework at the Duque de Lerma Parador Hotel
– Various ceramic objects for decoration of the Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, USA, and for the US embassy in Madrid (with Michael Smith as interior designer), along with replica 17th-century carnation crockery
– Jardinières for… decoration at Hotel Bodega Palacio in Laguardia (Álava province)
– Artisanal tiling for the altar of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Ferns in Gavilanes (Álava province)
– Reproduction of a 17th-century Way of the Cross for the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows in Villaseca de la Sagra
