MARIE-ANDRÉE ROBERGE

MA Céramiste

Auray, FRANCE

“Less is more.”

MA Céramiste is a ceramics workshop founded in 2010 by Marie-Andrée Roberge. After discovering a traditional pottery on a trip to Canada, she immediately fell in love with the craft. She then trained for 3 years at the Maison des métiers d'art de Québec. To finance her studies, she also worked in the restaurant trade. It was natural for her to focus on tableware.

CRÉDITS PHOTOS Marguerite Legros

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Value in the details

Crafting Functional Ceramics: From Design to Completion

She designs her ceramics by prioritizing the function of the object. This is how she determines the shape and size of each item. She selects the best design from several prototypes that she creates.

She manufactures all her collections using the plate technique. She uses paper templates to cut out the different parts of the object from the clay, which she shapes into slabs 3 to 6 mm thick. She then shapes and assembles the whole to form a cup, a bowl, a plate... Then come the various stages of finishing, drying, firing, glazing and re-firing!

It takes several weeks, even months, from conception to completion of the object.