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<p> Albert Thiry (1923-2009) <br /> Ceramist from Nice, he studied at the School of Decorative Arts of the City. He settled with his wife Pyot Gavaudan in 1943 in the village of…
Roger Capron was born in 1922 in Vincennes. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Art and Industry and then taught there.
In 1946, he moved to Vallauris and in 1947, he founded the…
<p>Born in 1933 in Villanueva de Algaidas, near Malaga, Miguel Berrocal is one of the most innovative Spanish sculptors of the 20th century. With a background in mathematics, chemistry,…
It was in 1764 that the history of the Baccarat glassworks took off, thanks to the initiative of the Bishop of Metz and Monseigneur de Montmorency-Laval. The Sainte-Anne glassmakers settled in the…
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 upset the…
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 be concrete…
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…
Material
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…
As its name does not indicate, the crystal is a glass, that is to say a non-crystalline solid, rich in lead, whose mass concentration must be between 40% and 24% to be entitled to the "Crystal'…
The appearance of the first man-made glass objects was before 1500 BC, but it is from this date that containers are attested in both Mesopotamia and Egypt. Glass, remains a rare and precious…
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 the earth as a…