Mexico City Insider: Designer Perla Valtierra

Since 2010, Perla Valtierra’s curled, swurvy ceramics have earned her Valtierra Cerámica products a cult-following among aesthetes the world over. Born and later educated in Mexico City, Valtierra spent years living in northern Mexico, Brussels and Paris before moving back to Mexico during the pandemic. In April 2021, she opening Valtierra Cerámica’s first showroom there, inside a a 20th century townhouse in the Juárez neighborhood. “It’s a very vibrant city,” she says of Mexico’s capital. “Ther...