Barcelona is filled with geometries that are part of its visual identity. Some cover grand façades; others remain beneath our feet, quietly repeating across entryways, homes, and buildings that preserve the memory of another era.
This way of looking at the everyday is where Interval begins. Joidart’s new collection, created in collaboration with graphic artist Judit Canela, draws inspiration from Barcelona’s hydraulic tile floors and brings their graphic language to the body.
A Geometry That Is Part of the City
Hydraulic tiles transformed Modernist interiors into surfaces filled with rhythm. Flowers, stars, and geometric figures repeated to create larger compositions, where each module had meaning on its own while also forming part of a whole.
Interval follows this same logic. Shapes repeat, meet, and leave spaces between them. The negative space is just as important as the metal; the distance between each element creates the rhythm of every piece.
In the small Interval earrings, this geometry is distilled into a minimal shape, almost as if a fragment of the floor had been isolated from its original pattern. The golden Interval ring brings the same idea to the hand, where the composition continually changes with every gesture.
From the Floor to the Body
In Interval, the architectural reference is not reproduced literally. It is fragmented and simplified to create a new language.
What was once a flat surface begins to take on volume. A pattern designed to extend across a floor becomes jewelry that changes with the body and its movement.
The long Interval earrings make this transition especially visible: geometry is no longer static but moves alongside the face. In the silver Interval bracelet, repetition wraps around the wrist, creating a new rhythm against the skin.
There is something especially compelling about this shift in scale: looking at what has always been beneath our feet and discovering something new within it.
Designing from What Surrounds Us
The collaboration with Judit Canela grew from a shared sensitivity toward design, materials, and our surroundings. A way of creating that begins with observing before drawing.
Barcelona is present throughout the collection without ever becoming a postcard. It can be found in the rhythm, the repetition, and those small geometries we recognize almost unconsciously after seeing them for years.
The golden Interval necklace captures this idea particularly well. The motif moves from the floor to the neck, shifting from architecture to a direct relationship with the body. The geometry remains, but the way we perceive it changes.
Interval, a New Chapter
Whether inspired by the Mediterranean, nature, art, or architecture, every Joidart collection begins with a way of looking.
Interval begins by looking down.
At the tile floors that have accompanied generations and still form part of Barcelona’s intimate landscape today. Their shapes are fragmented, their scale shifts, and they find a new rhythm against the skin.
Because perhaps design is also about this: looking again at what we thought we already knew.
