Laboratório d'Estórias
Loiça das Caldas, without nudes but also with boldness.
Text: Catarina Homem Marques
There are those who don’t have the knack for caring for birds, or don’t like to see them in cages, but that’s also why there are crows, canaries and blackbirds from Laboratório d’Estórias, an experimental design project that joined the former (already with a penchant for boldness) culture of pottery in Caldas da Rainha.
“A project like this only makes sense using the manufacturing techniques that have always been used in Caldense ceramics and that once placed the city at the center of the world of ceramics”, explain Rute Rosa and Sérgio Vieira. It is, moreover, “a way of preserving knowledge and traditions at risk”.
All products of the brand created in 2013 tell a story that is imagined from scratch and is written on the box that wraps the dishes. All of them also seek to be inspired by Portuguese popular culture but “reinvent traditional objects”, inventing that “once upon a time” or giving them new functions. In addition to ceramic birds, pieces such as a basil that keep seeds, a nutshell that serves as a bowl, or an olive tree that, from the top of its mount, was transformed into a dish for tasting oil, have already emerged from this Laboratory.
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