“When an author owes a product to his genius, he does not himself know how the ideas for it have entered into his head.”
- I. Kant
Arroz do Céu. [Rice from heaven]
Thus is called the new collection from Val do Sol, taken from the tale by José Rodrigues Miguéis, which tells the story of an east european emigrant who works
as a rail cleaner in the New York subway. All types of matter fall from the air vents above him. Garbage, raindrops, sunshine... and rice.
By the church of S. John the Baptist, where many New York high society weddings take place, “ hamper loads of rice fall onto the wedding couples... in a burst of ruinous celebration”. In the end, the rice is swept into the subway air vents, where the rail cleaner below, not knowing the origins of this divine rice, reaps it to feed his large family.For him, rice pours in with the sun light. From Heaven. Rice from Heaven.
Val do Sol invited me to renew their terracotta collection for Frankfurt-Ambiente 2010.
Elegance, irreverence without arrogance, some humility and much happiness. Reutilize and remodel. Rice whites, creams, grey and black. Paris, always Paris, natural oysters. Blues, mediterranean, Bandol, Île de Bendor. Welsh greens, Cardiff, the exuberance of the city’s parks. Reds, oranges, yellows and browns - India, the spice markets. Pink and purple, yellow and moss greens - Lisboa, cosmopolitan, the pink city.
And also... Butterfly, the new line in terracotta, organic, light and functional.
Fátima, Paulo, Rita, Celina, Sandra, João, Dulce and of course… Zé Eduardo, made this Rice from Heaven possible.
I want to believe that you will like it.
Paula Monteiro.
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