Los Castillo was one of the great laboratories of the Taxco movement. Founded in 1939 by Antonio Castillo and his brothers, including Jorge “Chato” Castillo and Justo “Coco” Castillo, the workshop emerged from the first generation trained in Spratling’s Las Delicias but quickly developed its own identity.
Los Castillo’s importance lies in experimentation. The taller became famous for married metals, divorced metals, stone mosaic, feather inlay, enamel, mixed metals, silver overlay, and ambitious hollowware. Where Spratling gave Taxco its founding grammar, Los Castillo expanded the material vocabulary. Their work often feels painterly: silver, copper, brass, stone, wood, shell, and feather treated as color fields and surfaces rather than merely precious materials.
The workshop also benefited from Margot van Voorhies Carr’s early design role, which helped shape some of its most recognizable floral and naturalist forms. Los Castillo matters because it made Taxco technically adventurous. It transformed the movement from a silver renaissance into a broader modern decorative arts phenomenon.
Total Sales
1,506
Total Volume
$681k
Peak Year
2025 · $144k
Trend
+20% / yr
980 · Los Castillo · Taxco · Made Mexico · 252
980 · Los Castillo · Taxco · Made in Mexico · 201
Made in Mexico · 980 · Los Castillo · Taxco · 392
Sterling · Mexico · Los Castillo · Taxco · 462
Silver, Rosewood, and Metales Casados Box
Silver
Total auction volume by year.
925 · Hecho en Mexico · Los Castillo · Taxco
Los Castillo · Taxco · Hecho en Mexico · 189 · Eagle 15
Los Castillo · Taxco · 070 · Esmalte a Fuego · Sterling · Made in Mexico · Eagle 15
Los Castillo · Sterling · Made in Mexico · Taxco · 204 · Mosaico Azteca · Eagle 15
Los Castillo · Sterling · Made in Mexico · Taxco · Pluma Azteca · 3
Onix Negro · Los Castillo · Eagle 15
Los Castillo · Taxco · 28 · Sterling · Made in Mexico · Onix Negro · Eagle 15
Los Castillo · 13 P · Hecho en Mexico · Onix Negro · Eagle 15
Los Castillo · Taxco
SCL 2 · Soc Coop · Los Castillo · 925 · Hecho en Mexico
182 · Handwrought · Los Castillo · Taxco · Sterling · Mexico · Eagle 15
Cristina · 325
Soc Coop · SCL · Sec 2 · Los Castillo · Hecho en Mexico · 925 · PZ121 · Eagle 58
386 · Hand Wrought · Hecho en Mexico · Los Castillo · Taxco
Los Castillo · Taxco · Hecho a Mano · Mexico
Los Castillo · Plateado
TA-01 · Plateado · Los Castillo · Taxco · Hecho en Mexico · 134
Los Castillo · Taxco · Mexico
