Felix Tissot, a French-born ceramist, arrived in Taxco, Mexico, in 1956, when the city was emerging as a bustling tourist capital, and soon became an iconic figure in his own right.
Ana Elena Mallet shapes Tissot's creative trajectory and transmits the qualities that made him a design pioneer, not only for the objects he created, but for the vision to propose an inclusive and collaborative mode of production, coupled with the sensitivity to unite the best of several worlds in a company that today would be called "sustainable".
This publication is accompanied by a text by the anthropologist Gobi Stromberg, who outlines the cultural environment of Taxco at that time and points out the definitive influence of Tissot in the environment. In the words of Mallet, the artist "knew how to contribute to his aesthetics an innovative and modern design without losing the essence of t...read more
