Perla Valtierra

At a Glance - In April 2021, she opened Valtierra Cerámica’s first showroom in a 20th-century townhouse in the Juárez neighborhood of Mexico City. - Her work is shaped by over 15 years of practice and by travels and studies in Paris, Kyoto, and Brussels. More than 15 years of practice sits behind Perla Valtierra’s ceramics, and the work reads as the result of repetition, attention, and hand discipline rather than a quick stylistic gesture. Studies and time spent in Paris, Kyoto, and Brussels broadened that base, adding influences associated with rigor and refinement without pulling the work away from its center. The result is a practice that stays grounded while carrying a cosmopolitan frame, with form, texture, and space treated as working concerns. The first showroom for Valtierra Cerámica, opened in April 2021, gave the practice a public setting in a 20th-century townhouse in the Juárez neighborhood of Mexico City. That location matters as part of the craft presentation: the house provides a controlled, measured backdrop for ceramics that depend on surface, light, and volume to register fully. In that room, the objects are not isolated from their setting; they are shown in a context that supports their quiet presence. RIBETE - ROSETTA CUP and LOLA - PLATES mark the clearest edge of Perla Valtierra’s signature. The names point to tableware that asks for precision in making and restraint in presentation, objects meant to sharpen a table rather than overwhelm it. Read alongside her years of practice and time in Paris, Kyoto, and Brussels, they sit within a vocabulary built from direct making and careful handling of proportion. Home also functions as part of the same discipline. The bedroom she describes is full of natural light, looks toward the back terrace of the house, and gives her, from bed, “an amazing view of Mexico City and the mountains beyond.” The room suggests a working idea of comfort: clear sightlines, daylight, and a setting that supports pause without decorative excess. That is consistent with the way Perla Valtierra speaks about home feeling like a holiday, a condition of ease shaped by city life rather than removed from it.

Signature

Perla's signature dishes include RIBETE - ROSETTA CUP and LOLA - PLATES.

In Their Words “I really love my bedroom because it’s full of natural light and has a view to the back terrace of the house; from bed I get an amazing view of Mexico City and the mountains beyond.” “When I’m at home it feels like I’m on holiday, which is such a nice sensation for life in a big city.”

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