bright boxes

Decorate your home in style with this bright and sunny tissue box cover from Mexico. By Juana Ponce, the cover is crafted from ceramic, featuring colorful floral motifs that are painted by hand in the style of Talavera handicrafts.

Bright orange and red are tempered by black and white on a wall mirror from India. Featuring crosses on each corner, the mirror frame is handcrafted of ceramic tiles on wood by the talented Lalit Sakhuja. The mirror features a hook on the back for hanging.

Alejandro Chávez depicts Saint Martín de Porres, a Dominican brother born in Lima in 1579. Trained in the medical arts, Martin worked in the convent infirmary but also showed great compassion to the sick outside the convent. Chávez crafts the wooden box to house this retablo, or diorama, and paints it in bright colors. The figures are carefully modeled from ceramic plaster and painted by hand.