there’s the balloon dog Signature Jeff Koons, large chandelier Park Avenue Created by Olivier Gagnaire in 1999 for the opening of the New York boutique, or The Vase Innocence By Sylvain Dubuisson, with whom Bernard’s House has created a refined and impressive nativity scene in Paris, Milan and New York.
Over its 160 years of existence, the porcelain factory is on display at the Adrien Dubouché National Museum until October 2.
Distinctive pieces
To celebrate this anniversary, some of the most beautiful collaborative artworks of the past thirty years—twelve years to be exact—are being unveiled in Room: iconic pieces, including some never-before-seen pieces.
These pieces tell of impromptu, long-distance, desirable encounters, often “the result of serendipity,” and sometimes materialize during dinner, right at the factory, when the artists stop there “unexpectedly.” Or “on the platform of a station while we’ve been chasing them for years”, notes Frédéric Bernardoud, general manager in charge of marketing and creativity.
long pregnancy
Most projects required a slow load. made for the first time, sagethe exquisite teapot dressed in crocheted lace by Portuguese visual artist Joanna Vasconcelos is the culmination of exchanges that began… “twenty years ago, in Limoges”.
The story began with a refusal: the story of a colossal ceramic “madness”, a gigantic wedding cake several meters high, technically impossible in Limoges, but did not prevent the production of another original work. “The size, the round shape and the assembly in several pieces of the teapot was a performance,” continues Frédéric Bernardaud.
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challenges to overcome
The house likes to take on challenges that artists have given birth to, as evidenced by Porcelain sheets, this curly shot of JR, which required a year of work to develop. “He came to the modeling studio, took sheets of paper, rolled them into balls, threw them and flattened them, and asked if we were able to reproduce the effect.”
As for the shiny side and the color of the balloon dog For Jeff Koons, it will take two and a half years to achieve the desired result.
“Great prospects”
Rediscover yourself and experiment with new combinations like these mirrored ceramic items – trellisAndrea Branzi screen – or these panels with rustic ribbons (chestnut sticks) for an unusual piece of furniture – Brazilian From the Campana Brothers – The possibilities unearthed by Manufacturing seem inexhaustible.
And the future looks quite bright. “Technological revolutions open up wonderful prospects for us to allow ceramics to express themselves in more complex forms,” aims the company’s president, Michel Bernardoud.
To see, an estimated behind-the-scenes movie
moving in
Porcelain is a passion passed down to artists, but also an experience that has been passed down from generation to generation. At the heart of the show moving inA movie that follows the various actors who work in the factory workshops to make the vase al dentimagined by Marco Mencacchi.
From Isis, the designer, to Baptiste, the rotating painter, via Antoine, the fashion designer, Ludovin, the enameller or even Lea, the graphic designer, there are nine of them to tell about their role and how (and with whom) they learned the trade. “It’s a group of artisans who pass on a piece and make it evolve little by little,” explains Michel Bernardoud, head of the family business since 1994. “.
“There weren’t many of us before,” asserts the person with the more complex memory of the 150th anniversary. “It was difficult in the context of the economic depression,” says Frédéric Bernardo, general manager in charge of marketing and creativity. The 160th anniversary is celebrated quietly and in tune with a “boom period”.
comfortable. In view at the Adrien-Dubouché National Museum, 8 bis Winston Churchill Place, every day except Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Discover in pictures “1.400°C”, the new exhibition of the Bernardoud Foundation in Limoges
Two meetings this summer
Two events around Bernardoude porcelain were launched in June in Limoges.
next to moving in In honor of the 160th anniversary of industrialization, at the Dubosch Museum, the Gallery of Contemporary Art 1,400 degrees Celsius It was also proposed by the Bernardaud Corporate, Albert Thomas Street.
Text: Helen Baumeyer
Images: Thomas Jouhannaud, Gwenwal Chapperon, and HP
Video: Amy Vaillant
