Tiny Furniture Isn't Just for Dollhouses Anymore
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- 04 Nov 2022
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Last December, the French ceramist Solenne Belloir was working in her studio in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement when a potential customer came in asking about a piece in the window: a spindly white chair with a high back that suggests a throne for a pixie, and which she wanted to buy for a little girl. “I said, ‘I think it’s very fragile for a child,’” Belloir recalls, “ ‘and maybe dangerous.’”
With slender, snappable legs, the 6½-inch-tall chair, hand-built from stoneware, was not designed for a dollhouse but rather as a sculptural object, one of 30 that Belloir started making in 2020 while taking a break from producing the expressive but exactingly constructed housewares for which she is known: glossy fruit baskets assembled from fat tubes of latticed clay and spherical stoneware bud vases with towers of delicate scaffolding. Read More...
