Fábrica de bovedillas portátiles con patente de invención en España y en el extranjero
A Barcelona trade catalogue of 1907 from the firm José Padró e Hijo, showing its patented portable vault tiles, or bovedillas, for building floors and roofs. The pictures are chromolithographed sample panels of curved tile faces numbered in sequence, each with a different speckled, striped or patterned glaze in cream, ochre, green, red and terracotta. A designer could draw on their repeating dot textures, stripe rhythms and tonal range of earthy colours.
