For a designer it is more interesting to make the vases speak than the flowers themselves. So when I accepted the Vista Alegre's proposal, I fulfilled one of my most poetic desires of recent years. For some time now I have worked with typographical landscapes or rather with poems. They are usually four-letter words in English, a language that has many four-letter words, which are part of a clearly urban landscape of signs and warnings, of metaphors and flatteries of language.

Messages that can surprise us at any corner or room of our existence, which are housed in the retina and perhaps also in the mind. I prefer to paint letters and flowers to make the vases speak, like the illuminated signs or traffic signals. Many people will find that this analysis for a venerable house of Portuguese ceramics is very pop. Others may consider it a kind of sacrilege to use the alphabet as a landscape of nature. One thing is certain: where it says ""Don't look back"", can put a dozen carnations"". Oscar Mariné Brandi