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 Talavera de la Reyna Nineteen years after being established, Talavera de la Reyna is known as one of the best, most innovative, and qualified workshops in Puebla. It emerged during a Talavera production boom and from a deep interest of one person to achieve the best results. In less than ten years, Angélica Moreno, its director and founder, reached her goal to turn it into the most successful Talavera workshop established during the last years of the Twentieth Century. Besides bringing up the memory of the Spanish town that gave us its tradition of centuries in the production of this particular type of ceramics, Talavera de la Reyna is a name recognized for its prestige in Mexico and abroad. On September 8, 1990, the workshop was formally opened at the site where it stands today. From the very beginning, the artisans at la Reyna intended to go further than everything that had been done before in Talavera by proposing new designs based on repetition or decontextualization of details applied in antique pieces. Simplicity was preferred over visual saturation, a historical characteristic of this craft. Starting from this idea, the artisans working with Angélica Moreno created new designs exclusive to the workshop: Casa Vieja, Las Américas, Mandarín and Células. Other colors, like yellow were used instead of the traditional blue in the feather (plumeado) design. All these changes were implemented in order to offer something different and contemporary for
its simplicity. The innovation was the proposal, not the decorative motifs themselves. Today it is possible to have a minimalist
Talavera object thanks to the simplification of the decorative forms.
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