Interview-La Casita de Wendy
La Casita de Wendy
Dream brand
QUESTION: How can you describe in 5 ideas/concepts your creative process?
ANSWER: Up, down, up, down, lower, and up again!
Q: Materials that you would like to work with
A: My materials are my dreans and experiences. I work with them and I would like them to always inspire me the same way.
Q: One place or moment that you cherish, or keep in your memory?
A: The first days in my country house. Memories of my childhood in Asturias. The feeling of being in love, the leap of maternity...
Q: Dream in a drawing
A: (see above)
Creativity, but under control!!!
Interview- Danica Wilcox
Hito Home
Mediterranean boutique owner in Mallorca.
Interview- Belén Senra
Making rope into art
Macrame Artist
Interview- Inesita
Inesita, passion for Spanish Dance
Dancer
QUESTION: Why Flamenco?
ANSWER: When I began my studies, it was the Spanish Dance. This encompassed all of Spain and its provinces. I heard the word Flamenco only several years later. Basically, flamenco is accompanied by the unwritten music of the guitar. However, this style of dancing has been influenced over hundreds of years by many cultures. What attracted me were its elegance and the complexity of rhythm (compas) which contains sophistication much beyond other dance.
The special movements and gestures have a richness and nuance I do not find in other forms of dance. Flamenco with its oriental quality seemed to suit my personality. In my view and that of others, the dance itself is the genius and in learning the craft, the power of the art is revealed.
Q: What emotion do you feel when dancing that you don’t get from anything else?
A: I love to dance. This is difficult to describe. The sensation of moving through time and space even without music is unique. Walking takes you somewhere; the dance takes you into the world of imagination. All art is expressive form. My emotion is a sense of exaltation. I feel taken out of myself. It is both a physical and mental experience which satisfies in a way I cannot achieve otherwise.
Q: What would you like your audience to feel when they watch you dance?
A:I would hope that the audience would be transported to another realm that is out of time and yet totally in the present instant. If I succeed then they should feel the power of significant form. If it touches others, then I have danced well.
Q: One memorable moment, show, time in your career that you will remember forever and that changed it all for you?
A: It is hard to pick that one moment after a lifetime spent in dance. What stands out most in my memory is the first time I saw a class in Spanish dance. The special elements I wrote of that drew me to these forms was like a revelation and I knew that this was what wanted to do.
The other moment back in my first engagement was the performance I did for the great dancers, La Argentinita, her sister, Pilar Lopez, Antonio Triana, and her ensemble and their reaction to my work. Their participation at the close of my number with handclapping was so unexpected that it lives on in memory andis embedded in my psyche. This indeed changed everything!
To sum up. Flamenco is organic and the specific method that makes Flamenco possible, namely that the dancer leads the guitarist does not exist in any other form of dance and music. I think there is something of flamenco in all of us. It is an endless chain of rhythm. The true name of this art is Cante Jondo.
Interview- Real Fábrica Española
The art of selling 'Spanish'
Entrepreneur
QUESTION: What made you start Real Fábrica?
ANSWER: The passion for Spain, its products and traditions made me start 3 years ago this adventure!
Q: 3 things that Spain has, that other countries don't?
A: Joy, authenticity and passion
Q: Happiest place/moment ever?
A: Now, Madrid 2015.
Q: 5 artisan techniques that deserve your respect?
A: 'Palmito' weaved baskets, Olive tree wood boards, Leather from Ubrique, Salt gathering in Isla Cristina, Red pottery from Extremadura, Blankets from Ezcaray.
Q: Can you describe your goals? Personal/professional:
A: To take Spain and its products with 'solera' (a word that describes Spanish character and charm) to other audiences to increase the value and position them as the treasures they are.
Interview- Helena Nicolau
Making from the Mediterranean
Jewelry Designer
QUESTION: What concepts are behind your jewelry designs? Does it have anything in common with designing spaces?
ANSWER: The handmade concept is very important for me, I think it adds value to my designs. I love the idea of recovering the value of the traditional. The idea of making with my own hands and leaving my trace on each piece.
My father, architect, taught me three-dimensional vision, and from my French mom I inherited her aesthetic sense and her talent in all things artisanal. As a kid I would make myself dresses and embroidered table cloths and bed linens like no one else could, so there is an artistic side that has to do a lot with my parents, and their way of thinking.
Q: Does geography affect your inspiration?
A: Of course, is where my biggest inspiration comes from, but I must say I guide myself by instinct at that very moment depending on the circumstances. My work table is chaos.
Q: 5 materials that inspire you?
A: All those that come from nature, and from the sea...
Q: A place/moment that you cherish in your memory?
A: There is a lot. My Christmases in Paris, and my summers in Puerto Pollença. The birth of my kids, my wedding day. But If I must think of one place, that is the lighthouse, El Faro, it gives me peace.
Q: If you could only deign one more thing, what would it be?
A: Clothes, it drives me crazy.