Terrassa
— — red brick chimneys against a Catalan sky.
Not only on a wall.
“A textile city in the Vallès Occidental whose Modernisme factories outlived their looms and became museums. The three Sant Pere churches, on a low rise above the Vallparadís stream, hold mosaics and frescoes from a Visigothic and early-Romanesque past. In late winter the jazz festival, running since 1982, takes over the old industrial halls. from the studio
Terrassa, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Terrassa is a city in the comarca of Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, about 28 kilometres northwest of Barcelona, with a population of roughly 225,000. It is co-capital of the comarca together with Sabadell and sits at the foot of the Sant Llorenç del Munt massif. Once the Roman and Visigothic settlement of Egara, it grew through the nineteenth century into one of the great wool and textile centres of Spain, a history the surviving Modernisme factories still carry on the skyline.
The Vapor Aymerich, Amat i Jover, built in 1907 by the architect Lluís Muncunill, is the masterpiece of Catalan industrial Modernisme: brick sawtooth roofs, slim cast-iron columns, twenty domed bays of north light. It now houses the Museu Nacional de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya, mNACTEC. Older still are the three churches of Sant Pere, Sant Miquel, and Santa Maria, a pre-Romanesque group of the ninth to twelfth centuries above the Vallparadís ravine.
The Festival de Jazz Terrassa has run every spring since 1982 and is one of the longest-standing jazz festivals on the Iberian peninsula. It spreads across the city's old industrial halls, cloisters, and squares, with concerts at the mNACTEC and the Nova Jazz Cava. The programme leans toward European and Catalan players and runs roughly four weeks across March and April. The festival is curated by the Amics de les Arts i Joventuts Musicals de Terrassa.