Master Silversmiths
The artists who defined Taxco's Golden Age of silver, from William Spratling's founding workshop in 1931 to the modernist innovations of the 1960s.
William Spratling
William Spratling was the catalytic figure of the Taxco Silver Renaissance: an American architect, writer, designer, and cultural entrepreneur who hel...
Antonio Pineda
Antonio Pineda was Taxco’s great modernist of refinement: a designer, silversmith, and entrepreneur whose work pushed Mexican silver toward technical ...
Héctor Aguilar
Héctor Aguilar was one of the central figures of Taxco’s Silver Age: a designer, entrepreneur, and founder of Taller Borda, one of the movement’s grea...
Margot de Taxco
Margot van Voorhies Carr, known as Margot de Taxco, was one of the most distinctive designers of the Taxco movement and one of its essential independe...
Los Castillo
Los Castillo was one of the great laboratories of the Taxco movement. Founded in 1939 by Antonio Castillo and his brothers, including Jorge “Chato” Ca...
MATL (Matilde Poulat)
MATL, the workshop of Matilde Poulat, occupies a singular place in Mexican silver. Unlike the Taxco workshops, MATL was based in Mexico City, but it b...
Sigi Pineda
Sigi Pineda was one of the later great modernists of Taxco: a designer and silversmith whose work brought mid-century abstraction, balance, and sculpt...
Salvador Terán
Salvador Terán was one of Taxco’s most original modernists: a designer whose work moved between jewelry, metalwork, interior design, and architectural...
Fred Davis
Fred Davis was one of the earliest and most consequential figures in the Mexican silver renaissance, even though he is often treated as peripheral to ...
Valentín Vidaurreta
Valentín Vidaurreta was a crucial bridge between Mexican fine art and the emerging Taxco silver movement. Already active as a painter, muralist, stage...
Ana Núñez Brilanti (Victoria de Taxco)
Ana Núñez Brilanti, founder of Victoria, was one of the most important women in the Taxco silver movement and a central figure in translating modern M...
Enrique Ledesma
Sterling / 925 silver
Enrique Ledesma was one of the important independent designers of the Taxco silver movement: a painter, silversmith, and lapidary whose work is especi...