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The Massier dynasty started with Pierre Massier (1707-1748), a master potter in Vallauris, South of France. His grandsons Jacques (1806-1871) and Jerome (1820-1909)…
<p>Garouste and Bonetti, when art meets design</p><p> When it comes to merging art and design, one collaboration stands out for its creativity, its audacity and its unique…
<p> Born September 14, 1917 in Austria and died December 31, 2007, Ettore Sottsass is one of the major figures of the Italian creation of the post-war years Student, he studied architecture…
The 50's are a rich creation and discovery period for contemporary ceramics. Accolay factory will be a key player in this rich production.
It is a period of research where techniques…
Styles
The creations released in the 70s were often created in the late 60s. The protest developed in the 1960s, pushes the 1970s into soft with the creation of soft seats and poufs surrounded by sweet pop…
The design of the 50's
During the war 39-45 the chemistry experienced a tremendous acceleration by the industrial development of new products whose research was still embryonic; This will…
1889: the crowd that rushes to the great universal exhibition of Paris discovers, amazed, the Eiffel Tower. But in front of the iron lady, it is a certain Emile Gallé, already rewarded in 1878, who…
Born of imposing concrete buildings, Brutalism extends over the years to design and art. A world where raw materials are expressed through clean lines and geometric shapes.
Born to…
Material
Mastered for the first time by the Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck in the 15th century, oil painting is a process consisting of mixing the pigments of the paint in the oil during the preparation.…
Already used during ancient Greece to copy the bronze works, marble is one of the noble materials of sculpture. There are numerous marble deposits in Europe, as in Italy, where Carrara marble,…
Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin known by men since the 4th millennium BCE. Originally mastered by the peoples of antiquity, it became the noble material of Greek sculpture and Chinese ritual…
God created man from clay : « Yahweh God fashioned man of dust from the soil ». (GN 2,7)
Man would be defined, at least biblically, a being linked not only to Earth, but to…