Beautiful Table

It's clear what we're going to talk about, you don't have to be very perceptive from the title... Of tables, and nice ones at that. We could leave it here, but we won't. Because there's one thing you don't know, and that's that these tables are unique, because before being tables they were floors...

It is said that "one man's garbage is another man's gold", and the gold from Bénédicte Bodard is the garbage that, unfortunately, many homeowners consider to be a problem: the hydraulic floor tiles typical of the Catalan Art NouveauSome of them are more than 150 years old. Bénédicte wanted to do something about it. Every time she went out for a walk and saw containers full of precious tilesHow is it possible that this heritage is not protected? It's all very well to restore facades, entire buildings, streets, but what about the modernism inside?

First there was one, the hexagonal tile designed by Gaudi (it weighed so much that he had to carry it in his daughter's pram, and she got out of it, perhaps taking her first walk around the city...), then there were dozens and dozens more, now hundreds of tiles stored in his workshop in Sants, where he polishes them, removes the layers of glue, cement, unmentionables... He gives them a coat of linseed, of wax, polishes them and takes all the colour out of them, blushes them... Yes, yes. And he gives a new life to those long-suffering and precious floors, turning them into tables, beautiful tables.

If you are reading this, I'm sure you would never throw these tiles away. And if you ever walk down the street and see a container full of them, don't think twice and contact Bénédicte, she will know what to do.