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Alexandre Bigot est devenu l’un des plus grands artistes d’artisanat, l’étoile la plus brillante qui s’est éclatée à l’époque d’Art Nouveau, un exemple de ce qu’en exerçant un métier choisi et aimé on peut atteindre un succès et une gloire sans précédent, et devenir avec son oeuvre une partie du patrimoine culturel mondial.

Abramtsevo est devenue la première entreprise en Russie à avoir adopté plusieurs nouvelles techniques artistiques dans la céramique architecturale. La majolique d'Abramtsevo se distingue par la beauté étonnante de la glaçure: l'alchimie magique de Vaulin a transformé la surface de la céramique en un bijou coloré.

Savva Mamontov's Abramtsevo factory inspired many artists and lead to the emergence of several ceramic enterprises. One of such enterprises was the Murava Artel (where ‘artel’ means a cooperative association of craftsmen) founded in 1904 by Alexei Vasilyevich Filippov.

When we wrote our material on Arabic ceramics, which truly became the mother of modern ceramic art and majolica, we could not help but pay attention to even more ancient ceramic works of Mesopotamia, the Sumerian civilization that existed in the territory of modern Iraq for more than two and a half thousand years.

The concept of majolica in our minds is strongly associated with Italy, although it is a known fact that the word itself came from the name of the Spanish island of Mallorca, from where glazed products from Spain were brought to Italy. In general, Italians, like other Europeans, began to use glaze in their ceramics much later.

Nous voulons vous montrer des exemples magnifiques de poêles à bois Art Nouveau anciennes de l'Europe et de la Russie.
Toutes les images sont cliquables et vous pouvez contempler le relief gracieux et le scintillement des glaçures assez en détail.

A fireplace in English architecture is of no small importance. The Foggy Albion became ‘foggy’ not only because of the abundance of rain in the marine climate, but also because of the smog of fireplaces, which were in absolutely every room of the house and served as the only source of heat.

À la fin du 19e-début du 20e siècle en Finlande, il y avait au moins une douzaine d'usines de poterie produisant des poêles en faïence de style de art nouveau

The authorship of the majority of the surviving antique tiled stoves and fireplaces belonged to workshops of brothers Carl and Ernst Teichert, who also branded their produce with the city name Meissen

Notre modeste présentation ne vise pas tant à raconter mais à montrer des panneaux en céramique incroyablement beaux sur les façades des villes européennes.

This article is dedicated to European antique tiled stoves preserved in numerous castles scattered across the picturesque hills of Europe. The story will tell about the tiled stoves of the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria and Lithuania.

The Russian tiled stoves is a unique and self-sufficient phenomenon. The stove in the Russian house has always been a “thing in itself” - everything began and ended on it, it was the alpha and omega of any house, many beliefs and legends were associated with it

At the end of the 19th century, the Arts and Crafts movement was born in Great Britain. Arts & Crafts, which later became widespread in many countries of the world, was the starting point for the Art Nouveau style.

In 1900, a significant event took place, the Paris World Exhibition, in which products from Russia made a splash. Critics and the press were beside themselves describing the pavilion of the Russian Empire, which was the largest at the exhibition and occupied more than 24 thousand square meters.

Antonio Gaudi revealed his talent for drawing very early, but what a more surprising fact was that as a child he constantly noticed unusual things. In particular, at the age of seven, he told his father in great surprise that the sea waves did not repeat, their silhouette was different all the time.

We would like to talk about a French ceramist of the Renaissance - Bernard Palissy - a French potter, enameller, painter, glazier and ceramist, as well as a writer and a great scientist, whose works are exhibited in the National Renaissance Museum in Château d'Écouen, and are also presented in the Louvre and the Hermitage.

In Russia, the period of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, which bears the beautiful name Silver Age, became the era of an extraordinary creative upsurge in our culture as a whole, a time of outstanding artistic discoveries and the appearance of many masterpieces of music, theater, visual and decorative and applied art.

We have already been writing about the English ceramic fireplaces of the Georgian era also referred to as the Regency era (1714-1830), however English ceramics has a longer history starting from the end of the 16th century, from the era of Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen.

The art-tile industry in the United States was initially inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, which evolved from the decorative English art.

The Delft masters’ tiles were so popular that they began to be copied, and this way of decorating the interior was called delftware. Almost to this day, tiles in southern Europe are called ‘majolica’, and in northern Europe ‘delftware’.