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Porcelain Design!

We are happy to announce that for the seventh time, two workshops will be held in cooperation with ENSA, the National Higher School of Arts of Limoges!

The participants will benefit from classes at Boisbuchet, a field trip on porcelain in the region to Bernardaud Porcelaine de Limoges, one of the major porcelain manufacturers in France, and from using the kilns and the porcelain workshop at ENSA.

If you want to get an insight in all phases of the porcelain process such as molding, cutting and gluing, firing, glazing, and decorating, please follow one of these links!  

Glass Design - Liquid fusion! 

You want to explore glass as a material offering a rich palette for innovation and intervention? In collaboration with the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG), architect and designer Paul Haigh returns to Domaine de Boisbuchet to lead a glass design exploration workshop focusing on the ephemeral and sublime qualities of glass.  

Emphasis will be placed on the idea of "glass as a liquid" in exploring the ancient material that can transform process into poetry. Working immediately with glass forming processes such as pipe blowing, fusing, hand pressing and glass sheet forming, you will examine glass making as an art form with pertinent methodologies for today's design disciplines. 

Earth, Glass and Fire!

You will experience the intersections of porcelain and glass working by designing glass and porcelain objects and then firing them in our new wood-kiln. You will work together with the well-known glass designer Steve Gibbs, Fred Herbst and artist Jean-Charles Prolongeau. Become part of a contemporary approach that references traditional wood-fired techniques!   

We are happy to offer this year a fashion design workshop which will use inteligent materials. 

According to her experience Elisabeth de Senneville proposes a workshop giving you the opportunity to create nomad designs with new fabrics and technologies.

All kind of designers coming from every discipline and architects are invited to research in the world of new generation textiles in order to find new applications for the new performances this materials can achieve. 

Elisabeth de Senneville is always a designer well known for fashion and fururistic fabrics.

She works with MIT Media Lab in Boston and teaches innovation at Ensad in Paris at the Lab research department.

Jewels!

After a couple of years of conducting workshops in the Shigeru Ban space it seemed logical to Amina Agueznay to have people creating jewelry  borrowing some of its architectural vocabulary... Connection details, materials used for the construction of the building, form, shape, light, the experience of space, etc. are all important elements that could be used as a base to develop a piece.

Jewelry could be made at a small scale for the human body or at a larger scale, to  adorn the building, through the exploration of different materials found on site and techniques. ("parer l'espace")

Each creation/piece will be a sample of a process; we will observe, absorb, then we will develop an idea, a concept, we will produce a piece or pieces and finally we will present it/them...

14-20 August

Jewellery Design:
Amina Agueznay

Food Design with Marc Bretillot!

With food the entire body is involved -preparing, eating, digesting; all your senses are active - eating is the only activity which stimulates all five simultaneously.   

We are exited to offer for the second time this year a workshop with one of the most respected food designers in the world: Marc Bretillot