Founded by the Lladró brothers in Spain in 1953, “Lladró” is famous for its production of world-renowned what?

In 1953, at their home in the village of Almàssera, in Valencia, Spain, three brothers, Juan, José, and Vicente Lladró started making their first plates, vases, and ceramic figurines inspired by the works of the great European manufacturers of Meissen, Sèvres, and Capodimonte. It was not until 1956 that they started producing the sculptures for which they are now known. Interest in the items produced by the Lladró brothers saw their small workshop expand several times until eventually, they moved to Tavernes Blanques in 1958.

Lladró (Valencian pronunciation: "ʎaˈðɾo") is a Spanish company that produces high-end lighting, home accessories, decorative sculptures, and porcelain figurines. Lladró figurines are made of hard-paste porcelain, sometimes called "true porcelain", which is a ceramic material that was originally made from a compound of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at very high temperatures, usually around 1400 °C. It was first made in China around the 7th or 8th century and has remained the most common type of Chinese porcelain

Lladró introduced the revolutionary single-firing method which soon replaced the traditional triple-firing. In the 60s, its Professional Training School was founded to provide the company with qualified artists. In the 70s, it started experimenting with “Grès Porcelain”, which is a type of ceramic with a hard, colored, non-porous body, extremely vitrified, with great resistance and complete waterproofing.