The First
Collection

Véronique Joly-Corbin trained as a painter at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and chose porcelain as her canvas. She is one of the few artists in the world who draw on porcelain with a calligraphy dip pen.

Each of her collections invites us into a different world, from botany and wildlife to marine life and exotic lands. Véronique explores each subject through extensive research, and her art evokes an illustrated encyclopedia.

She draws each piece by hand with metallic oxides, whose colours only emerge during firing. Her work belongs to the tradition of the arts du feu. The firing, she says, is unforgiving.

From her atelier near Paris, she creates exceptional, signed pieces for collectors and Michelin-starred chefs, including Mauro Colagreco of Mirazur. She is a member of Ateliers d’Art de France and features in the Homo Faber guide.

Lucie Sotty came to ceramics through art. Years spent working alongside contemporary artists shaped an intuitive practice, in which form and surface grow together.

Based between Berlin and Hyères, she alternates hand-building and the potter’s wheel, then develops her own glazes and lays them on as a painter would, thinking in colour and composition. Mediterranean light runs through her palette.

KLAYA is the studio of Marine, a ceramic artist who lets the clay speak for itself. Organic forms, and objects from other times and cultures, run through her work.

The chain is her signature. She shapes every link one by one, then assembles them around the body of the vase, so that each piece becomes a small sculpture.

Valentina and Sébastien Nobile founded La Soufflerie with one mission: to keep the art of glassblowing alive. It is a disappearing savoir-faire, and they train new glassblowers to ensure it is passed on.

Every piece is blown from recycled glass. Wasting nothing is at the heart of La Soufflerie’s philosophy. There is a genuine respect for the material that already exists, and La Soufflerie glassblowers work hard to give it a second life.

Each piece is blown one at a time, so it has its own proportions, colour and surface. Rather than hiding those differences, they let them become part of the charm.

Angélique Delaire is an interior designer with a particular love of lighting. After several years in interior design, she began developing her own collections of bespoke lighting. Drawn to the design of the 1960s and 70s, she often jokes that she was born in the wrong era. That affinity gives her work its distinctive vintage spirit.

She designs each lamp and entrusts its making to master lampshade makers in the Bordeaux region, among the few in France who still practise this disappearing craft. Each shade takes hours to sew by hand. Angélique carefully selects the textiles, including surplus fabrics from French and Italian couture houses.