Noucentisme de filigrana Handcrafted Noucentisme
Noucentisme de filigrana
“D
e l’amor és lo jardí”. A casa els Masó, el Noucentisme es cova a la llar i creix en el país. La llar, el primer embolcall de la vida dels homes, és la pell fina que recobreix la llavor del que ha de fructificar, la membrana de l’ou, el tel de les entranyes, allò que guarda el més preuat, el nucli que és promesa de futur. Els fills i les filles creixien revestits d’aquest tel protector de la llar, que ho amarava tot, els àpats, les lectures, els detalls, les cançons, la llum del riu, els mobles i tot el que els acompanyava i vestia: tapets, cobrellits, cortines, coixins, petites obres d’artesania destinades a endolcir el dia a dia, protegir els mobles, fer la taula bona per a dinars, berenars i sopars, filtrar la llum, donar descans al cos, embellir els racons amb essències simbòliques de flors, sanefes i fulles. Aclucades d’ull que relligaven el relat de la quotidianitat. Res no hi mancava i tampoc res no hi feia nosa. L’home fa la casa i la casa fa l’home, com tantes vegades va anotar Rafael Masó. I en aquesta tasca, els objectes quotidians eren els guies Fig. 153 Retrat d’Esperança Bru, c. 1912. Fotografia de Rafael Masó. ¶ Portrait of Esperança Bru, c. 1912. Photograph by Rafael Masó. AHCOAC-G
Handcrafted Noucentisme
“D
e l’amor és lo jardí” (Of Love ’Tis the Garden). In the Masó household, Noucentisme was nurtured in the home and spread outside it. The home, the first sanctum for human life, is a thin skin that covers the seed of what must later bear fruit, the egg’s membrane, the skin of the innards, or the safeguard for what is most precious, the core of future promise. The children grew up within this protective skin of the home, which pervaded everything: meals, reading, tiny details, songs, the light of the river, the furniture and every item that accompanied and clothed them: doilies, bedspreads, curtains, cushions, small handcrafted works made to accompany everyday life, to protect the furniture, to decorate the table for lunch, afternoon teas and dinners, to filter the light, to allow the body to rest, and to beautify corners with symbolic essences of flowers, borders and leaves. Blinks of an eye that framed the story of daily life. Nothing was missing and nothing was surplus to requirements. Man makes his home and the home makes man, as Rafael Masó so often noted. In so doing, everyday objects were silent guides in the passage of life. They included clothes and embroidery, created behind the windows of the river, of those shining the clearest and most 185