Ceramicists & Glassmakers in Paris
8 stores · curated ORBIS register
Alix D. Reynis hand-models porcelain in its rue Jacob workshop before production by a family manufacture in Limoges, making tableware and lighting. Astier de Villatte works with black terracotta and white glaze, continuing the Paris ceramics house founded by two artists in 1996. Crystal appears alongside ceramics through Baccarat, whose named products include Harcourt glasses and chandeliers made within its Lorraine tradition.
Founded in 2011 by Alix Depondt-Reynis, a former lawyer who began hand-shaping porcelain at age 35; her tableware and lighting are still hand-modeled in her rue Jacob workshop, then produced by a family manufacture in Limoges.
Paris ceramics house founded in 1996 by Ivan Pericoli and Benoit Astier de Villatte, who met at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Black terracotta with white glaze, hand-thrown in France. Flagship opened 2000 at 173 Rue Saint-Honore, near the Louvre.
The crystal of kings since 1764 — Harcourt glasses, red-box chandeliers and Lorraine savoir-faire. First crystal oven went into operation in 1816; Baccarat received its first royal commission from Louis XVIII in 1823.
A Paris ceramics studio founded in 2015 by self-taught ceramicist Sara Théron, working from a workshop-boutique at 69 rue de Meaux. Hand-built animal figures and charms are finished with pigmented clay engobes and fired twice above 1,000°C.
French faience manufactory founded 1821 in Gien, Loiret, by Thomas Hall on the banks of the Loire; known for hand-painted earthenware, armorial tableware, and tilework in several Paris Metro stations.
Finnish glass modernism — Aalto vases and Teema tableware since 1881. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Paris ceramics boutique founded in 1974, owned since 2006 by Eric Goujou, showcasing handmade regional French pottery from Alsace, Provence, Normandy, Burgundy and the Camargue. Located at 35 Rue Daubenton, 5th arrondissement.
Manufacture de Digoin is a Burgundy stoneware maker for pitchers, bowls, jars, kitchen pieces, and French ceramic objects. At Paris, the range centers on burgundy stoneware pitchers, bowls, and jars for the kitchen.