Roger Capron - Céramiste

A multi-faceted character, Roger Capron is the only French ceramist of his time to have both produced a major artistic body of work and founded a leading industrial company. After studying under the decorator René Gabriel, whose influence had a profound effect on the young generation of designers in the 1950s, Capron chose to become a ceramist. In 1946, he set up the Callis studio in Vallauris with Robert Picault. It was during this period that the emblematic forms and representations of his work appeared: branches, stylised figures, suns and geometric motifs. (Dustjacket has minor wear.)