Hey folks we’ve finally ditched flickr as the keeper of our photos. It was always supposed to be just a temporary solution and in cosmic time I guess that 4 years was. Anyway check out the new evolving look by tapping on “Our Work. “
And just after the the fiesta de bottle caps and capsulos de nespresso vacio we will head directly over to Barcelona’s famous French School, the Lycee Français. For one day and one day only the children will not be whacked on the knuckles with rulers nor have thier ears pulled nor be forced to eat offal.
Check out the site here. Joyeux Noël!
December 19th
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Lycee Français
C/Bosch i Gimpera 6-10
Ah Drap Art. Once a year we get to see just what amazing things people make out of dead Nespresso capsules. Earrings. Bracelets. Hovercrafts. Ride-around-lawn mowers. Then there is the stuff from old inner tubes like notebooks, purses, sling shots, euro grape smuggler swim briefs and of course condoms. This year the featured event is a husband and wife team from Lapland who will be making a life size replica of Michelangelo’s David out of chicken bones reclaimed from KFC dumpsters and used kleenex. Drap on by, we’ll be there. Hey could you sneak us in a cup of coffee or something.
December 16th, 17th and 18th.
I’m guessing from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.
CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (My favorite art space in all the world)
Montalegre, 5
Oh… and when you come be sure to see the World Press Photo exhibition also showing at the CCCB. Always hard to take but always amazing.
Wow this year is kinda nuts with the holiday mercadillos… you know gift shows.
Next up is sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin International School. It will be located at the Clinica Planas which if mammary serves… if memory serves is the home of one of the hottest plastic surgery clinics in all the world. What the hey!!! Grab a trivet and have a quicky boob job or a little bit of liposuction. And since it’s a craft fair all procedes from your fat removal will be made into homey bars of patcholie scented soap. We’re given away a free Botox shot with every end table.
December 15th
Clinica Planas
Pere II de Montcada, 16
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
You know this just seems too weird… We’d better check it out and get back to you.
Our good freunde Susanne has launched a blog specifically about collecting baldosas hydraulicas and she has interviewed one of the world’s top authorities on the subject, Herman Cain. No seriously, she interviewed Benedicte. Yo can find it here. Nice work Susanne. All things considered it’s probably for the best that you didn’t hook up with Mr. Cain.
It’s that time again… jager shots, communist elves, obese guys sneaking into your house and sticking things in your socks… and of course our sale de Navidad, CRISISMASYMASYMAS 4th Edition. On the 18th and 19th of November in addition to to our own stuff we are again hosting some of Barcelona’s most interesting artisans. And… and again chef Michel Garnier, who just got out of jail, again… will be serving lunch or dinner for… are you ready for this… 5 EUROS! WITH WINE! AND DESSERT! ARE WE NUTS! YES WE ARE! Get over here and buy something. Click on the freaked out Santa for an invitiation and come on over.
Jus so you don’t think we have been hanging out by the pool drinking mojitos here’s a few pictures of our most recent sales.
This one we call “Long Christmas in Japan” and was made for Kyoko and is 6 tiles long. Kyoko picked the tiles. The colors are odd and amazing as are the shapes. It’s really unique. Thanks Kyoko!
The summer seemed to be filled with US expats becoming pats again. And seemingly all of them swung by at the last minute to pick up a modernista baldosa soup pot or a bed warmer (just put a hydraulic tile in the microwave for 3 minutes and you’re tootsies will thank you all night long). Here’s a couple examples from the files.
Hey ultimately this will be a positive but for right now we are going to mothball our E-Commerce shop. For the moment we are reembracing the tried and true formula of you seeing what you like and dropping us note. We fully expect to launch the store sometime in the near future but boy, talk about a time commitment! We’d rather be grinding tiles and grouting your table than entering hundreds of variatons of items piece by piece by piece. Can you say tedious?
Also our warehouse of pictures will be getting a major overhaul. Anybody who thinks the big digital “cloud” is secure has never had 50 pictures miraculously vaporize from thier flickr account. It’s fall cleaning time at “MB.”
Busy. Busy. Busy. Somehow Mesa Bonita (from now on this will be trunticated to “MB”, allowing me to type 8 less characters) has hit the trip wire to being oh so popular. Tables and trivets and special commissions have been just flying out the door. Problem is not only do we have to fly’em, we have to make’em. In any event we’ll give you a full run down just as soon as the summer smoke clears.
Friends with damn badges
