Late last month, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize ceremony returned home to Madrid, Spain. During a cocktail and tapas hour in the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum’s courtyard, finalists and their guests mingled with the new creative directors of Loewe, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez , and jury members including Frida Escobedo, the architect, essayist, and visionary behind the new Tang Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; and Abraham Thomas, the curator of modern architecture, design, and decorative arts at The Met.
Since its inception in 2016, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, which was envisioned by the brand’s former creative director Jonathan Anderson , has celebrated artistic merit and newness in modern craftsmanship. The label encourages a