Last night the Alhondiga opened it's scarred, creaking doors to me. And the hundred or so really well dressed jewelry aficionados who were gathered with me on it's front steps. The Alhondiga is the embattled fortress built in 1796 in Guanajuato that that now houses the Museo Regional de Guanajuato Alhondiga de Granaditas. But never mind all that.
History can be scary, and anyway, we weren't there to remember ancient battles, but to check out the design revolution sparked by metalsmith and design zealot, Francisco Garcia.
We were there for the launching of Garcia's exquisitely unique jewelry, his latest collection of necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings. We were there for his champagne and his prosciutto, his classical music soundtrack and the trips back through his exhibition, to see again and again those stellar pieces of his.
Silver Nina will post photos of his incendiary masterpieces soon, bronze breast plates, copper and silver medallions, some burnished to a soft fire, others more like bombs bursting in air.
Carolyn in Mexico
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