LLADRÓ RE-CYCLOS BY COMMITTEE

The British design team Committee, made up by Clare Page and Harry Richardson, has been commissioned with the latest reincarnation of Lladró Re-Cyclos, a project creating new visions of already existing figurines by the porcelain brand. Maison et Objet is the chosen venue for the exclusive presentation of these new designs, in which core Lladró subject matters are reinterpreted in a new language.

EVOLUTION OF LOVE

Committee pays tribute to the various phases of love with three couples in which the characteristically delicate flowers of Lladró symbolize the evolution of the feelings bringing lovers closer to each other. The designers wish to empower the message of these pieces in a poetic and evocative manner.

The first couple is seen kissing passionately, while their faces and very particularly their eyes are covered with tiny flowers because, as Harry Richardson explains, “the first spark of love can be blinding”. That feeling is also mixed up with the ambiguity and uncertainty surrounding the first encounters between two people.

The next couple of lovers appear intertwined with their heads and shoulders utterly cloaked with even more flowers, signifying their intimacy, complicity and absolute preoccupation with each other. Finally, the figurine closing this series shows the two lovers completely covered by over one thousand flowers, with only their faces visible. This is the most mature phase in the existence of a couple, when the two lovers share the same path through life yet are now conscious of the rest of the world. This is the Lladró figurine containing the greatest number of flowers in the history of the brand, and a true work of art if we consider the number of hours invested in its creative process. Besides, the handmade creation of every flower, petal by petal, makes them all different, thereby turning each one of this pieces into a unique work.

With this celebration of love, Committee has chosen one of the core subject matters of Lladró and has focused its interpretation on flowers, a truly characteristic element in the creations of this porcelain brand, always made by specialized artists.

ANIMALS IN AN UNREAL WORLD

Inspired by animal kingdom, Committee create a fantasy world, in which the spirit of the pieces is further enhanced by using golden tones. Elephants walking is one of the figurines customized by Committee, who have used green tones to suggest a dream-like scene. The golden color creates a new image of the animals, as if simulating a jet of water sprayed by the elephants over their backs from their trunks. This detail is different in each piece. In the case of The monkey, Committee underscored this character’s curiosity by turning the flower that has caught its attention into a source of liquid gold, that overflows onto the hand that holds it and marks the finger that reached out to touch it.

coloring in gold the flowers that have caught its attention.

CHERUBS DISCOVERING THE EARTH

Some original compositions thematically focusing on the values and feelings evoked by Lladró, but with a change in the language used. Taking some little angels from Immaculate Virgin, they have created new pieces showing these heavenly creatures as they discover an earthly world. Curiosity and the adventure of life are the themes around which these creations revolve, depicted with imagination and a touch of humor.

Committee

Born in Northampton and London respectively and trained at the Liverpool Art School, Clare Page and Harry Richardson claim that they explore the everyday with a mixture of “pragmatism and imagination”. At their studio, the designers hoard thousands of objects bought in street markets and antiques shops: a colorful assortment of pottery animals, figurines, boxes, vases and other bric-a-brac.

Committee works with the concept that these objects, which supposedly have already fulfilled the function they were created for, take on a new life. That is how they came up with, among other creations, their celebrated “kebab” lamps. These original compositions are a kind of “collage” of various ornaments that find an unusual, extraordinary type of beauty without moving away from the everyday. The spirit of the designs of this duo fits in to perfection with the philosophy of Re-Cyclos, for which nothing is destroyed and everything is transformed as it acquires a new meaning.

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