ALFONSO PARDINAS

Alfonso Pardiñas headshot from Byzantine Mosaics brochure.

Alfonso Pardiñas in front of the Painted Lady on Steiner Street, San Francisco which he co-owned, and inhabited at the time of his death in 1975.

Alfonso Pardiñas working on
Jean Varda piece.

Alfonso Pardiñas with Jean “Yanko” Varda and Shirley (last name unknown) in San Francisco.

Backside of photo with personal Note
from Shirley.

Ruth Asawa with Alfonso Pardiñas (Byzantine Mosaics worker in background) and students at Alvarado Elementary School (San Francisco), in 1970 (photo by Greta Mitchell).

Beniamino Bufano “PEACE” obelisk featuring mosaic inlay rendered by Alfonso Pardiñas and Byzantine Mosaics. In this photo the obelisk still marked the entrance to San Francisco International Airport. The obelisk can currently be viewed on Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. It was moved during airport renovations and was never moved back. Description (which fails to credit mosaic work) HERE.

Mosaic work rendered by Alfonso Pardiñas and Byzantine Mosaics for Holy Virgin Cathedral (Russian Orthodox Church in San Francisco on Geary Blvd. and 26th Ave.) includes six saints on the front of church and the gold onion domes.

Collaboration between Jean “Yanko” Varda (artwork) and Alfonso Pardiñas/Byzantine Mosaics (mosaic work and installation) at BART Station in the Bay Area.

Byzantine Mosaics office and showroom at the Ice House Design Center on Battery St. in San Francisco.

Byzantine Mosaics worker, Leonard Cahn and Alfonso Pardiñas at public art installation in Mill Valley, California.

Alfonso Pardiñas and Leonard Cahn install public art rendered by Byzantine Mosaics in Mill Valley, California.

Byzantine Mosaics workers with Alfonso Pardiñas in front of Bank of America commission