Paracelsus (1493–1541) was a Swiss alchemist, physician, and astrologer.
He was known for the belief that he had achieved the transmutation of lead into gold.
He is sometimes regarded as the “father of toxicology” with his famous phrase dosis sola facit venenum – the dose makes the poison – a maxim of the discipline.

The aesthetic lines of this first collection, and of el Cardenal as a whole, stem from an in-depth research into the Iberian Peninsula, its folklore, its essence, and its artisanal tradition; viewed through a contemporary lens, avoiding stereotypes, focusing on items that are useful yet difficult to classify, where references are not obvious. Just as the word cardenal can refer both to something as orderly and solemn as a papal prelate, or to a bruise —a mark of violence, but of undeniable beauty.
It is easy to trace intersecting lines: religious habits, the world of saddlery, BDSM, and the leather universe.

The interplay between the chaste and the unrestrained, between the pure and the licentious, is essential. Not as a provocation, but as a contemporary representation of our historical trace.

PARACELSO

Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, also known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss alchemist, physician, and astrologer. He was believed to have achieved the transmutation of lead into gold through alchemical methods and gave zinc its name, calling it zincum.
He is sometimes regarded as the “father of toxicology” with his famous phrase dosis sola facit venenum – the dose makes the poison –, a maxim of the discipline.
The name Paracelsus (Paracelsus in Latin), which he chose for himself and by which he is generally known, means “equal or comparable to Celsus,” a Roman physician of the 1st century.
His relentless search for the new and his opposition to tradition and remedies inherited from ancient times mark him as a modern physician, ahead of his contemporaries. Conversely, in his views on mysticism and astrology, he maintained a position close to the most archaic concepts.