‘Indice’

‘Indice’ (Fr: indication, sign, clue). A collaborative project between the French porcelain manufacture -Sèvres’, and UK based designers  Karen Price & Yoav Reches. The work seeks to give new life to Sèvres’ existing catalog of work through optical magnification. The lenses highlights the perfectionist detail and craftsmanship of work that might otherwise be overlooked by the non-professional eye.

Originally exhibited as part of Platform 8 collaborative exhibition with Sèvres ‘The Enemy of the Good’ during Designer’s Days (Paris, June 09) the work will be shown in London at ‘small show, HUGE TALENT’ and a specially designed installation will be exhibited as part of ‘Objects of Luxury: French Porcelain of the eighteenth century’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

‘Objects of Luxury: French porcelain of the eighteenth century’,  18^th September 2009 – March 2010, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

‘small show, HUGE TALENT’, 16^th- 20^th September 2009, Sotheby’s, Kiddell Gallery, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W12 2A

Photo credits: Julie Pradier

T pot

Reches’ work upsets traditional distinctions between inner and outer, single surface body that composes a teapot. It pushes our intuitions about the boundaries between surface and interior. Indeed, with a series of subtle functional innovations, and an aesthetic that is at once Eastern and Western, modern and traditional, it pushes the claim of perfection by making finding a principal within an existing design—a double skin—and finds an aesthetic language that amplifies it further.

Sevres in February

What an inspirational trip this was! The team at Sevres treated us incredibly well and showed us around all the production facilities, we were able to wander through the workshops and talk to craftsmen and women and could retreat to the ‘pavillion’ for our group meetings. JL