Gerrer

What is

Shelf or support fixed to the wall, almost always in the kitchen, where the gerres (water jugs) are left (DCVB, Mall., Men., Eiv.; cast. cantorero). Normally made of stone, not wood: built-in furniture.

Other requested names: cantirer/canterer (board with holes for jugs) and poalera (bench for buckets) are Catalan, without a Mallorca brand. Poal holders: not located. In Mallorca, the gerrer.

How is

• Stone or masonry shelf attached to the wall, at hand height.
• Sometimes with holes to settle the base of the gerres.
• Next to the renter (sink) and the stoves.

How is fa

• Work of the stonecutter or bricklayer when building the kitchen (see mares-i-stonebreakers ).

Com s'usa

• Water for drinking and cooking, brought from the cistern or well with the poal .
• «Arrambat a la paret, el gerrer, els fogonets y el rentador» (Rosselló, cited in the DCVB): the kitchen in a sentence.

Vocabulary

• gerrer: shelf for gerres (Mall.).
• gerra: large clay jug.
• rentador: sink.
• fogonets: construction stoves.
• no fer-se davall es gerrer: (Mall.) to be difficult to raise (DCVB).

History

• 19th-20th century: Mallorcan literary citations (Rosselló) in the DCVB (without year).
• 1414, 1577: canterer in Catalan archives (DCVB), not Mallorcan.

On veure'n

• Museum of Mallorca, Etnològica Section (Wall) : kitchen.
• Owned kitchens: Els Calderers, La Granja d'Esporles (to be verified).

Why is it design

• Furniture that is architecture: the gerrer is born with the house.
• Fresh water without a machine: stone and porous mud cool.

For the project

• Piece: marès shelf for gerres and jugs in current kitchens.
• Files: alfabia-gerra-i-gerrico , cantir , escudeller , poal-i-cadufos .

Sources

• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=gerrer
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=canterer
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=poalera

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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