Roger Capron (1922-2006), “herbarium Model” Coffee Table, 1970

COFFEE TABLE, “Herbarium” model by Roger CAPRON, the top in ceramic tiles, some decorated with leaf prints and some orange enameled. Black lacquered metal structure. Around 1970. The first “herbarium” tiles were made manually with Vallauris earth. Some were enamelled on the periphery like this model that we are presenting. The manufacture of herbarium tiles will subsequently be industrialized. Roger Capron, born in Vincennes on September 4, 1922 and died in Cannes on November 8, 2006, is a French ceramist. First interested in drawing, Roger Capron was a student at the School of Applied Arts on rue Dupetit-Thouars in Paris from 1938 to 1943, before teaching drawing there from 1945. The discovery of ceramics pushed him to change his medium: on February 6, 1946 he moved to Vallauris, where he created a ceramics workshop, Callis. In doing so, he joined forces with Robert Picault then Jean Derval in 1948, thus participating in the renaissance of ceramics in Vallauris where he implemented the motto of his master, René Gabriel, “to make beauty within everyone's reach” . Link / https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Capron