Mexican braseros are made of terracota and need a minimum of care! Do not let water inside over winter, it would damage the terracota, e...
All AMADERA's products come from Mexico.
For millenniums, Mexican art gets its authenticity from the pre Colombian period.
Rich in colours, each village developed is own art based on their potential local resources.
AMADERA choose very unique pieces, made by passionate artisans...this is their stories
AMADERA selected artisans for their very traditional techniques.
Their secrets? Fibbers, like bot reeds, that are blanched for hours until it becomes very soft. It is then plaited and hammered to become the AMATE.
A 100% vegetal decoration for your interiors…
Arturo is one of the last in Tlaquepaque to make dishes in the pure Mexican tradition.
Arturo's secret? A traditional wood oven made of bricks and dirt, built by his great grand father.
Each piece goes through the oven twice, at a very high temperature. The dish is then usable in the oven, on the flame and has the particularity of being watertight.
This ancestral knowledge is in the family for generations, but Arturo might be the last one since his kids, are studying and do not whish to continue after him...
Made of Agave wood, rose wood and leather, the Equipal is completely hand made by our artisan.
The equipal is unique, authentic, to decorate your patio or garden, and to enjoy yourself and your friends, in a very comfortable sit…while having a great sip of Tequila, made from the Agave plant, which you also sit on...an original idea
Braseros are ancient in Mexico. It was invented by the Mayas to cook their food and stay warm.
Today, we still use these Mexican chimneys as barbecues, and at night to stay warm around the table.
This is fun, useful and creates the best ambiance while having dinner with your friends on your patio.
You only need to put a bit of sand at the bottom of the brasero the first time you use it, to high up your flames and protect the base of your brasero. Then wood, charcoal, paper... will make the trick…enjoy
In our last trip to Mexico, we met in Patzcuaro a new artisan. He works with recycled copper!
The copper is heated to be then, hand hammered and becomes a vase, a sink or a table...
A very hard and fastidious work for a beautifull result!
All our furniture’s are made of old restored woods: Pine, mesquite, old doors…to be used as the top of a desk or a table for example.
The artisan is making a very difficult and minutia’s work to get the wood to leave a second life.
The book furniture made of an old canoe from the Chiapas. We choose our canoe at the artisan place; it was still a complete boat. The wood got cleaned, restored, treated, to become beautiful furniture’s, sitting on an iron base.
All AMADERA’s furniture’s are exceptional and unique..
We had a chance to visit Sonia's work shop.
A hard and fastidious work. You only can produce about 18 meters of fabrics a day. It is all hand made...table cloth, plaid
Unique and colorfull to decorate your tables
AMADERA choose one of the rare artisan making red tinted blowed glass.
It is much more difficult to obtain this beautiful red, because of the specific ingredients you are to find to get this colour.
Bleu and green are more traditional, but not less interesting to present your best cocktails or deserts in a margarita or martini cup.
She is a very nice lady, mother or three. She works very hard to get her kids to school.
By herself, in a small place, she paint her masks, tight the cords, make the frames, with all her heart, and always smile.
This artisan works with metals...he cuts it, then hand paint it...salamanders, suns
Unique and exotic wall decoration
Martin's potteries are all made and painted by hand. He works on getting new forms and colors that will bring some originality and exotism to your decoration.
Totally hand made, these 100% wool rugs, are also naturaly tinted.
An authentic fabrication, for an excellent quality hand made rugs.
Black terracota pottery are made in Oaxaca. No paint or vernish are used, this is a special technic that will tern terracota into black terracota.
The artisan close both side of the oven, to cook the poteries. A lot of smoke and little oxygen tern the regular teracota into black terracota.
