The company from Totana Pottery Project, finalist in the National Crafts Awards

Selected for a collection of lamps designed by Isaac Piñeiro, which is inspired by the geographical origins of the brand 'Totana: landscape of contrasts, shades of clay, pottery, lights and shadows'

The Pottery Project company, located in Totana, has been among the 14 finalists selected for the 2020 National Crafts Awards. Awards to which a total of 95 candidates from all the autonomous communities chose this year, with the exception of La Rioja and Cantabria .

Pottery Project has been selected for a collection of lamps designed by Isaac Piñeiro that is inspired by the geographical origins of the brand 'Totana: landscape of contrasts, shades of clay, pottery, lights and shadows'. The company makes ceramic objects of contemporary design, especially lighting. Its founder, Miquel Ángel García Belmonte, is a craftsman, designer and runs the company.

Specifically, the craft firm is one of the finalists in the 'Product Award' modality, which evaluates those products or collections made and marketed in the two years prior to the date of publication of the call.

The National Awards are convened by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, through the School of Industrial Organization and its Crafts area, Fundesarte, and seek to give prestige to a sector that in Spain represents 0.4 percent of GDP in an environment of quality and excellence. These awards give recognition to those craft companies that, preserving their essence of traditional trade, stand out for their creativity, social and environmental responsibility, adaptation to the market and capacity for innovation.

The committee in charge of assessing the candidatures has been made up of prestigious personalities from the world of design and crafts, such as the director of the National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts, Jaume Coll; the President of the Spanish Network of Design Associations, Teresa Jular; managers of Fundesarte and journalists specialized in design and crafts, among others.

The general director of Consumption and Crafts, Carolina Espinosa, congratulated the craft company Pottery Projet "for being a finalist for these prestigious awards granted by the Ministry, which reward the best national crafts and design" and recognized "their work carried out from the city of Totana, which has always been a benchmark in the ceramics sector”.

The winners of the National Crafts Awards will be announced at a ceremony that will take place at the end of the year.

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