Two mosaic studios, two architects, one psychologist, a fashion designer and a Charity  opened their doors to show their work to the public on May 20. As YOU could not be there look what happened at bloco C at CLN 104 Asa Norte, Brasilia: I am extremely happy and fortunate to be part of this group of kind, fun, able and open people that are my neighbors in the studio.

A week ago Cida and I went on a material procurement visit to Sao Paolo. We wanted to visit 3 shops for mosaic material, but in the end only managed to get to two of them because the distances between them were too large. Moving around in SP the 3rd largest city in the world with its 21 Million inhabitants is time consuming. Our first stop was A tile outlet at the outskirts of SP. Finding our way there we learned that the best way of moving around is to take the metro until the nearest stop and get an Uber from that stop to your destination. Color Mix has a huge outlet division for vitreous glass tiles, marble, terra-cotta and ceramic tiles. I bought some beautiful bottle green ceramic tiles and black marble, which I urgently need in the work shop. At the show room of the manufacturer of glass tiles – vidrotil we indulged in their outlet of end of production glass tiles. I have seen many works already made from vidrotil on …

Last Saturday, my friend and well known mosaicist, Cida Carvalho,  and me set off on a 3 hour walk through our current home town Brasilia. Being hungry after teaching our Saturday mosaic lessons we had lunch at the restaurant Dona Lenha, which was decorated by Cida with mosaics in trencadis or pique assiette style (the style that was used by Antonio Gaudi) . During a delicious fish with grilled vegetables and a glas of wine Cida told me the story of the mosaic – That the owner approached her with the idea of covering many of the walls in trencadis mosaic to give the restaurant the flair that goes with its mediterranean cuisine. It was a huge project covering many square meters of wall including the kitchen area. Cida tells me that a team of 8 people worked together for 4 month splitting the work in breaking tiles for 2 people and puzzling them together again, glueing them onto fibre netting and installing them at the restaurant. For parts of the benches a mosaic studio …