Casa Veronica

Milagro Lamp Grande

Handmade porcelain lamp, painted in saturated multi-color. Lamp shade included. Dimensions: Shade: 7H x 9 Base: 6H x 3.5W" Overall: 15 H Veronica Ortuo is a creative director and interior designer based in Austin Texas, as well as a ceramic artist. Ortuo visited the Detroit Institute of Art and was moved by their collectsion of vessels and sculptures dating back to 1200-1500 BC. She was mesmerized by the fact that these pieces could survive thousands of years. The collectsion is called Paloma; in addition to referencing her travels and her Mexican heritage, the pieces were inspired by Ortuos daughter Paloma, with whom she became pregnant while developing the collectsion. The sculptures are all hand-built and hand-painted, making each piece distinctive and one-of-a-kind. Hand-building will always be one of the most impressive ancient traditional art form, no matter how time-consuming, she says.