Rafael Castaño Gómez – Cefoarte
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ADDRESS:
Carretera. Sevilla – Málaga Km 10, Urbanización Quintanilla 16 – 41500 Alcalá de Guadaira
ACTIVITY
Cefoarte is a Sevillian company founded by Rafael Castaño Gómez specialised in the old artisan ceramic tradition long established on the banks of the river Guadalquivir.
At their factory in Alcalá de Guadaira they craft products for restoring artistic and monumental ceramics as well as decorative… ceramics and ironwork. With traditional techniques they make murals, sconces, washbasins, bathroom fittings, flowerpots, goblets, lamps, figures, busts, columns, lampposts, finials, fountains and plinth tiling.
All of their work is made and painted traditionally. When a pattern recurs on many articles, they use a stencilling technique, making a copy of the original design and reproducing it on other pieces. Each piece is then traced over and painted with oxides. Then the items are fired in a kiln for 24 hours at 980°C and left to cool for another full day. After this time the material will have acquired the lustre and colour characteristic of traditional Sevillian ceramics.
TRAINING
The son of a ceramicist, Rafael Castaño Gómez began as an apprentice at the age of 16 in Calle Alfarería in the Sevillian district of Triana. He continued to learn traditional ceramic techniques at other famed Sevillian workshops until he set up his own firm.… With Cefoarte he distributes craft ceramics worldwide.
SELECTED WORK
– Restoration and renovation of glazed finials and dripping tiles at Palacio de las Dueñas (palace of the Dukes of Alba in Seville)
– Restoration and renovation of finials on the regionalist building Rivas Meguerry by the architect Juan Talavera y Heredia (Seville)
– Restoration and renovation… of the whole balustrade by the canal and glazed finials in various parts of Plaza España (Seville)
– Execution of a 12×4m mural for the zapata slipway by the river Guadalquivir (Seville)
– Restoration and renovation of glazed corners of benches and planters in the Jardines de Murillo park (Seville)
– Restoration and renovation of a fountain by Mensaque Rodríguez dating from 1920 for the Pedro Domecq winery (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz province)
– Restoration and replicas of corbels for a Baroque building in La Rambla (Barcelona)
– Restoration and renovation of glazed finials and tiles for the Alcázar of Seville
– Restoration and renovation of glazed finials on the Seville Royal Pavilion in Plaza de América within Parque María Luisa (Seville)
– Restoration and renovation of fountain tiles, benches and planters in Plaza 25 de Julio in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
– Restoration and renovation of balustrades, finials with multiple tips and a gallery in Plaza de España (Seville)
– Restoration of shaped bricks on the facade of the Casa-Palacio Alpériz mansion in Dos Hermanas (Seville province)
– Restoration of the balustrade, pinnacles and urns on the church tower of Moguer (Huelva province)
– Restoration of the drinking fountain with the figure of a kneeling girl in Plaza de América in Parque María Luisa (Seville)
– Restoration of a ceramic lamppost in Plaza de España (Seville)
– Restoration of 13th-century decorative tiles in the Café Teatro building (Almería).
