Vézanne
A family story
A FAMILY STORY since 2020
Garance and Grégoire:
In spring 2020, Garance, my daughter then 7 years old, discovered the first shards of earthenware in our family garden in Malicorne-sur-Sarthe. Like a little archaeologist, she spent hours digging through the earth, sorting the fragments by color and pattern. Her little brother, Grégoire, helped her clean them with a brush. Patinated by time, earth, and the water of the "La Vézanne" stream, these earthenware pieces regained their brilliance and a new life in their children's hands.
Clélia:
Between creativity and rigor, my journey reflects my profile. A graduate of fine arts and trained in business management, I have always been passionate about art, artisanal crafts, and heritage. After several years in small and medium-sized artisanal craft businesses, a turning point came at 37, inspired by my children. Driven by the desire to undertake and faithful to my values, I embarked on a new path. With my husband, we created the Vézanne workshop: an adventure founded on creation, craftsmanship, and memory.
where it all began
the meeting with "the man in the hat"
"Buried in the stream bed for so many years, we pull out of the Vézanne a man seen from behind. A snippet of history from Léon Pouplard's workshop, a faience maker in Malicorne-sur-Sarthe.
Cracked, this figure seems to want to emerge from its glaze. Time seems to have stood still; his isolation is coming to an end.
Beneath the silt, the man in the hat appears. He reveals himself and awakens. I don't see his face, but his posture speaks volumes: standing tall, head held high, his gaze fixed on the distance. He seems to want to tell me something, and shivers run down my spine...
This was in 2020.
The faience speaks to us.
Much more than a material legacy, faience is an emotional and cultural inheritance."
Clélia Chotard
Vézanne, an artisanal brand, distinctly French. It gives antique earthenware the power to be reborn in a new form. Each piece of jewelry leaving the workshop becomes a link between memory and creation, between heritage and modernity.
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Camille & Andrée
Vézanne, a tribute to my grandmothers
Family dinner sets marked my childhood. Used on holidays or Sundays, they embodied gatherings around tasty dishes prepared by my grandmothers. These moments, their smells and flavors, are etched in my childhood memory. And the designs… especially those on the speaking plates, deeply touched me: their elegance, their finesse, their colors, and the humor they revealed.