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- Les auteurs
- 23 x 30.5 cm
- 160 pages
- 210 color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8389-0
- Text in French only
United by the inspiration and practice of Far Eastern ceramic techniques, Francine Del Pierre and Fance Franck occupy a special place in the landscape of French creation in the 1950s and 1960s. The career of legendary ceramist Francine Del Pierre lasted barely twenty years, interrupted by her death in 1968. In 1949, she created the Tryptique workshop in Vallauris with Albert Diato and Gilbert Portanier. In 1954, her meeting in London with Bernard Leach, author of A Potter's Book, the bible of a generation of ceramists, marked the beginning of an œuvre of absolute rigor, developed in subtly nuanced enameled colors from very accurate drawings. In 1957, Fance Franck joined Francine Del Pierre's workshop, where she also pursued research into modeling, and the variation of fundamental forms and their movement in space. Three years later, the two ceramists founded the workshop on rue Bonaparte, a space which is a meeting place for collectors, directors of international museums and great master potters such as Leach, Hamada and Cardew.