Founded in the 1950s in Tlaquepaque as a small studio workshop, Cerámica Suro is among Guadalajara’s most important institutions as a world-renowned ceramics factory where the most ambitious projects in the world of art, architecture, design and gastronomy are developed and produced.
During the last two decades, Cerámica Suro has carried out projects that have put Guadalajara in the crosshairs of the international art world.
Suro has turned what was once a family workshop that manufactured dinnerware and decorative objects into it’s second generation as an incubator for global artists, designers and creatives, developing their most ambitious projects.
It is currently one of the factories in México with the greatest interaction in the international art circuit.
Since then and until now, around 500 artists have collaborated with Cerámica Suro.
What characterizes the work they do in the factory, is that there is always room for new clients, with great generosity.
LuxuryLab Award
- 2024 - Liliana Melo de Sada
Liliana Melo de Sada, president of the Fundación México Monterrey 2010, which manages and administers the Paseo de la Mujer Mexicana, is proudly from Monterrey by birth and by heart.
An tireless conservationist and promoter of culture, social development, and societal changes to achieve gender equality and equity, she believes that comprehensive education is one of the main opportunities in our country and that everyone should foster and support it as much as possible: improving family and work life quality, based on respect and equal opportunities for women; caring for and enhancing our natural environment; and raising awareness and appreciation for the fine arts.
Concerned about environmental care and nature conservation, in the 1990s, she led the Executive Council of the Chipinque Ecological Park and has participated in councils of related organizations.
Driven by her interest in promoting a better quality life and having collaborated with the Asociación Nacional Pro Superación Personal AC (ANSPAC) for over fifteen years, she has been promoting the ANSPAC program in national family businesses, located in Toluca and Cuernavaca, from 2017 to the present, motivating comprehensive personal growth through businesses.
A dedicated and loving wife, mother—and grandmother of two boys and five girls—Liliana has been committed to cultural promotion for over 30 years. In Nuevo León, through the Museo del Vidrio, the Ballet de Monterrey, Conarte NL, the Patronage of the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, and the Festival Internacional Santa Lucía. She has also served as a board member for various cultural institutions in our city, Mexico City, Acapulco, and Morelia.
Through her presidency of the Fundación México Monterrey 2010, A.C., she promoted the creation of the Paseo de la Mujer Mexicana in 2006, within the Fundidora Park in Monterrey, NL, to provide permanent recognition and visibility to women who have contributed to the greatness of Mexico.
Her charisma and motivation to spread education and appreciation for the fine arts have earned her invitations to join councils abroad, such as the Instituto de Cultura de México in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, American Friends of the Louvre in Paris; and, from 2010 to 2012, the presidency of the Fundación Interamericana de Cultura y Desarrollo of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC.
For her vision, sensitivity, dedication, and philanthropic contribution, Liliana has received various national and international awards, such as: the Gold Medal awarded in New York City by the Casita María Center for the Arts and Education; the Diego de Montemayor Merit Medal awarded by the Municipality of Monterrey; the State of Nuevo León recognition, Mérito Cívico Nuevo León 2012; Mujer, Flama y Vida from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; the Fray Servando and Teresa de Mier Medal from the Congress of Nuevo León; the Mujer que inspira award from the Municipality of Monterrey; the “Dr. Carlos Canseco González” Social Responsibility Award given by the Rotary Club of Monterrey Metropolitan; a special recognition awarded during a Solemn Moment at the Congress of the State of Nuevo León for her 10-year leadership of the Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, as it celebrated its 15th anniversary; and the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic in 2023.
In Liliana’s words, when you do things with pleasure and love in service to others, they become interesting and more enjoyable.
- 2023 - Enrique Norten
Founder and director of TEN Arquitectos in Mexico City, New York, and Miami, he was born in the capital of the country and graduated in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1978; later, in 1980, he obtained a master’s degree from Cornell University. In 1986 he created his firm, initiating a commitment to the creation and research of architecture, urbanism, and design.
He was recognized internationally for his extensive career; in 2018, he received the Bellas Artes Medal from the Ministry of Culture and «Distinguished Mexican» by the Institute of Mexicans Abroad of the Presidency of the Republic. Previously, he received the «Richard J. Neutra Award for Professional Excellence» from California State Polytechnic University, the «Trayectorias» Award from the Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México; the «Legacy Award» in the design category from the Smithsonian Latino Center; and the «Leonardo da Vinci World Award» from the World Cultural Council, among others.
He has been a member of the Holcim Foundation for Construction’s board of directors and the board of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, among others.
He has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania with the Miller Chair since 1998. In Mexico, he was a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana and a visiting scholar at Yale School of Architecture, Harvard Design School, and the universities of Michigan, UCLA, Cornell, SciArch, Rice, Columbia, Pratt, and Parsons, among others.
- 2022 - Betsabeé Romero
Lives and works in Mexico City. For more than 20 years, her work has specialized in the elaboration of a critical discourse about issues such as migration, miscegenation and mobility, through the resemantization of symbols and daily rituals of the global consumer culture, such as cars, tattoos, urban signs, etc.
In the same way, he has been interested in addressing the issue of public art and popular art, its permanence and relationship with the social fabric and with alternative audiences to contemporary art. He has made more than 100 solo exhibitions in the 5 continents, including the of the British Museum, Grand Palais, York Avenue in Washington, Pabellon de Mexico in the Expo Dubai 2020, Place Du Louvre, the Vieille Bourse in Lille, the Great Offering of the Zocalo in Mexico City, Nevada Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum, Nelson & Atkins Museum of art, Museo Anahuacalli, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Museo Amparo in Puebla, MARCO and Museo de Monterrey, Canberra University Museum, Museo Carrillo Gil, la Recoleta in Buenos Aires, and many more.
- 2021 - Cándida Fernández
She is a historian from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Since 1992, she has been general director of Fomento Cultural Banamex, where she has established herself as a researcher, curator, editorial coordinator and promoter of art and culture; throughout her career she has rescued and disseminated Mexican heritage inside and outside the country.
She is curator of the Popular Art Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex and of the collection Grandes Maestros del Arte Popular de Iberoamérica. She was awarded the Covarrubias Prize (2013) for the planning and execution of the integral cultural project of the Textile Center of the Mayan World in San Cristóbal de las Casas. In 2014, he received the Anáhuac Medal in Languages and Management, and in 2015, the Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise.
- 2020 - Tatiana Bilbao
She studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She began her career as an advisor to the Secretary of Urban Development and Housing of the Federal District Government and founded the studio that now bears her name in 2004.
The work of Tatiana Bilbao’s studio seeks to understand architecture from a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective in order to create humanized spaces that react to global capitalism, with the aim of opening niches for cultural and economic development. Some of her projects are the Botanical Garden of Culiacan, the Master Plan and the Chapel of Gratitude of the Pilgrim’s Route in Jalisco, the Biotechnological Building of the TEC of Sinaloa, a prototype of Sustainable Housing for only $160,000 and the Tangassi Funeral Home in San Luis Potosi.
Tatiana Bilbao has been recognized with the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2012, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize by the LOCUS foundation in 2014, and in 2010 she was named Emerging Voice of the Architecture Leage of New York. In December of the same year, some of her projects were selected to become part of the collection of the Architecture Collection of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, France. She has been invited as a visiting professor at various institutions such as Rice University, Columbia University and Yale University. Her work has been published in A+U, GA Houses, Domus and The New York Times, among others.
