DESIGN REGARDS
“Construction games”

The Faïencerie de Charolles is above all a human story, based on the transmission and sharing of know-how. It is in this spirit that the Manufacture calls on independent designers, young talents or confirmed, to take a fresh look at the unique know-how of earthenware. Enriching collaborations, encouraging a modern vision, imagining infinite construction games, an unexpected perception of materiality, an evanescent interpretation of the archetypes of the world of decoration.True creators of emotion, the designers breathe real organic poetry into the new collections of the Faïencerie de Charolles.

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Custom-designed creations, thought for the earthenware industry, in full awareness of its cultural heritage, its particular history, its values. Unique services, designed to enhance the traditional earthenware craftsmanship of this superb region of Burgundy-Franche-Comté. A talented work that gave life to design objects that have become cult. Vases with surprising volumes, tables combining elegant mattness and shine, or even contemporary objects with an innovative and timeless design. La Faïencerie calls on independent designers to create meaning and relevance, but also consistency with historical collections. A challenge taken up hands down thanks to a careful selection by Aurélie Richard, the Artistic Director of the Faïencerie. The Manufacture de Charolles has been awarded the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label, which allows for an even more authentic approach to the creation of works of art. The designers seek to build a bridge between yesterday and today, by offering works that enunciate the rising values ​​of durability, authenticity and simplicity currently emerging in the discourse of art and design.

“ Discover our designer’s collections and imagine yourself wandering through the Faïencerie’s works of art…”

Aurélie Richard and Eva Cecchi

Artistic Direction
At the head of the artistic direction since 2019, Aurélie Richard, designer and Artistic Director, supported by the young Eva Cecchii, talented junior designer. While Aurélie Richard, a graduate of a master’s degree in Art and Design, revealed herself to the biggest players in the industrial world of furniture and fittings, juggling with strategic, industrial issues and trend evolutions, Eva Cecchi graduated from the National School of Architecture in Grenoble. An ingenious, talented pair that reveals the endless possibilities offered by the art of earthenware. By inspiring new ideas of shapes, uses and chromatic universes, Aurélie is at the heart of the rewriting of the Earthenware collections. It opens the doors to design and modernity. Already part of the French “art of living” thanks to its heritage and historical cultural heritage, Aurélie Richard also registers La Faïencerie de Charolles as a major player in interior decoration.

Baptiste Lanne

Une dimension Artisanale du Design
Je suis designer. Après avoir travaillé pendant une dizaine d’années pour différents studios de design comme Philippe Starck ou Habitat, j’ai ressenti le besoin de renouer avec un processus créatif plus personnel et sensible, avec une certaine liberté de l’enfance, retrouver la dimension artisanale du design, un outillage manuel et des matériaux naturels. Aujourd’hui, je crée des pièces uniques à la main, en bois et en terre. Essentiellement du mobilier, des lampes et des sculptures. Le contraste entre les surfaces lisses et celles sculptées à la gouge constitue la base de mon travail, le caractère commun aux formes organiques, naïves et poétiques que je créé. C’est un langage à part entière me permettant de valoriser l’intervention de la main, la singularité de chaque pièce et par le jeu des textures, la lumière elle-même. La nature est sans aucun doute ma première source d’inspiration. Ecorces, carapaces, écailles, plan d’eau ridé par le vent. J’imagine mes pièces comme les réminiscences de ces différentes formes du vivant. C’est réellement ce qui m’anime : convoquer l’imaginaire et faire entrer la nature dans nos espaces de vie. Un mot de notre DA – Aurélie Richard : « J’ai découvert le travail de Baptiste dans la presse, j’ai été touché par la force et la poésie de ces pièces faites à la main. Dans le cadre du développement de nos collections je suis à la recherche de nouveaux process de génération de formes et narration. L’idée de partir d’une pièce sculptée et de la contre-mouler pour en conserver toute l’irrégularité et aspérité m’a semblé intéressante. La lampe de Baptiste est une première collaboration que je souhaiterai confirmer par le travail d’une deuxième pièce pour envisager une gamme plus complète. »

Aurélie Richard

Designer, creator of emotion
In a world that is always going faster, Aurélie Richard likes to suspend time. Poetic and delicate, his creations have an assumed modernity, respectful of know-how, gesture and material. After having cut his teeth as an integrated designer in the industrial world of furniture and fittings, Aurélie created his own studio, Aurélie Richard_a.lab. The studio now supports regional and national companies in the design and development of a range of products, textiles and inspirational supports. His proximity to artisans, his understanding of manufacturing and his insatiable taste for experimentation give his works a unique identity, perfectly meeting the demand for “tailor-made” sought by La Faïencerie de Charolles .For her creations, Aurélie Richard immerses herself in the cultural heritage of the Manufacture, its spirit, its values, she respects the requirements of this art profession, the constraints of “handmade”, but infuses creativity and sensitivity. that is unique to it. She signs the first three poetic collections of 2020 – Boréale, Tandem and Alba – and continues to develop the collections in a spirit of elegant and refined modernity.

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Alain Gilles

Generosity and simplexity
After studying Political Science, Marketing Management and a career in the world of finance, Alain Gilles realizes that his sensitivity lies elsewhere. He resumed industrial design studies in France, and revealed himself. More than a vocation, a passion. In order to pursue his dreams, Alain Gilles opened his own studio. He develops his personal approach to the design of products, furniture, interior design, collaborates with several international companies and wins numerous awards. Creative, ingenious, he signs Stacked for the Faïencerie de Charolles. An endless ceramic collection, multiple and unexpected stacking sets of different shapes, giving birth to unlimited models of tables and small pedestal tables. This collection makes it possible to go far in redefining a typology of products, as well as in its possibilities of customization, by relying on the ancestral know-how of La Faïencerie de Charolles, Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant.

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