Three designs by Chato Castillo for Los Castillo in Taxco. After the departure of Margot and Salvador Teran in the early 1950s, Chato took over as de facto head designer at Los Castillo, and his designs are fairly distinctive. You see lines and stick figure representations of the subject, and often asymmetrical. Of course, you also see the many techniques that Chato developed for Los Castillo, and that were appropriated by many other designers in Taxco and really throughout Mexico.
In these three examples, he used the ‘mosaico azteca’ or mosaic stone inlay that Chato invented in the 1940s and that Los Castillo continued to use throughout the ensuing decades.
All three examples are also from Chato’s astrological designs from the 1950s thru the 1970s. This one is the twins Gemini picked out in raised silver in a field of mosaic azurmalachite stone inlay, and with silver rim and backing. This one is a pin/pendant in sterling silver with the stone inlay as shown. Marked with “Los Castillo Taxco” in a circle, along with “Sterling Made in Mexico”, “Mosaico Azteca” and design number “114”.
(Note that the three pieces were made in different decades, using different materials, and different designs, but all are marked with ‘design’ number 114!)
Three designs by Chato Castillo for Los Castillo in Taxco. After the departure of Margot and Salvador Teran in the early 1950s, Chato took over as de facto head designer at Los Castillo, and his designs are fairly distinctive. You see lines and stick figure representations of the subject, and often asymmetrical. Of course, you also see the many techniques that Chato developed for Los Castillo, and that were appropriated by many other designers in Taxco and really throughout Mexico.
In these three examples, he used the ‘mosaico azteca’ or mosaic stone inlay that Chato invented in the 1940s and that Los Castillo continued to use throughout the ensuing decades.
All three examples are also from Chato’s astrological designs from the 1950s thru the 1970s. This one is the twins Gemini picked out in raised silver in a field of mosaic azurmalachite stone inlay, and with silver rim and backing. This one is a pin/pendant in sterling silver with the stone inlay as shown. Marked with “Los Castillo Taxco” in a circle, along with “Sterling Made in Mexico”, “Mosaico Azteca” and design number “114”.
(Note that the three pieces were made in different decades, using different materials, and different designs, but all are marked with ‘design’ number 114!)
Three designs by Chato Castillo for Los Castillo in Taxco. After the departure of Margot and Salvador Teran in the early 1950s, Chato took over as de facto head designer at Los Castillo, and his designs are fairly distinctive. You see lines and stick figure representations of the subject, and often asymmetrical. Of course, you also see the many techniques that Chato developed for Los Castillo, and that were appropriated by many other designers in Taxco and really throughout Mexico.
In these three examples, he used the ‘mosaico azteca’ or mosaic stone inlay that Chato invented in the 1940s and that Los Castillo continued to use throughout the ensuing decades.
All three examples are also from Chato’s astrological designs from the 1950s thru the 1970s. This one is the twins Gemini picked out in raised silver in a field of mosaic azurmalachite stone inlay, and with silver rim and backing. This one is a pin/pendant in sterling silver with the stone inlay as shown. Marked with “Los Castillo Taxco” in a circle, along with “Sterling Made in Mexico”, “Mosaico Azteca” and design number “114”.
(Note that the three pieces were made in different decades, using different materials, and different designs, but all are marked with ‘design’ number 114!)
Three designs by Chato Castillo for Los Castillo in Taxco, Mexico. Different subjects, different use of materials, different decades, yet all three are design number "114"!?!
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