{Today we welcome a new regular contributor to the blog, from Spain, Serena Olivieri. Serena is an Italian girl living in Madrid and is a designer and maker of contemporary handmade works. She will be featuring shops, designers, artists, etc out of her beautiful home of Spain! Here's her first post - please help me welcoming her! -Jan }
I was always attracted to this lab-shop from the very first year I came to live here in Madrid. It’s located in a small street in the well known bohemia neighborhood of Malasaña.
La Eriza is a bookbinder lab with a wide exhibition space in the front. It’s the typical place you may want to enter just to take a look at the drawings and illustrations hanging on the yellow/black painted walls or the books in the display cabinets. You soon notice sea urchins everywhere on the shelves: they’re the logo of the shop and give it its name.
It has this feeling of an old wunderkammer; all the objects and paraphernalia in the cabinets are the owner’s personal collection. Óscar Sanchez Lozano is an expert bookbinder and a delicate curator: he constantly organizes solo/collective exhibitions in this space. Young artists, illustrators, as long as there's paper involved and a good project to display, he’s likely to give total freedom to the artists.
Isn’t there some kind of magic about this lab? Or possibly, any lab?! There is always a good excuse to stop here and start mulling over every detail and see what’s going on!
La Eriza
c/ Colón, 15
28004 Madrid
Spain
+34 915214061
laeriza@gmail.com
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About Serena Olivieri
An Italian girl living in Madrid, designer and maker of contemporary handmade works.
2 comments:
yes magic it is - and beautifier also -
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Margit
Creative Tail
Beautiful!.
I will have a look.
Gracias, Serena
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