Ceramic artists Justine and Jean Hay de Slades’ rustic house and studio in France’s Haute Saintonge had been years within the making. First, Justine needed to set up her line of bone-white porcelain that she calls Epure—the exquisitely easy wares are what first caught our eye: see Made In a Barn in France.
Success enabled Jean to affix the enterprise in 2014: he oversees manufacturing. And really lately, with their three-year-old daughter, Alma, the household purchased a parcel of land with two decrepit Nineteenth-century constructions on it that enabled them to construct their best live-work setup. “It’s a small wooden home with many home windows and plenty of mild,” Justine tells us. “We don’t want or need plenty of area for residing, however our atelier is twice the scale, with limestone partitions and previous fireplaces.”
Not surprisingly, the colour white pervades each buildings, together with plenty of handmade touches: Justine and Jean’s fingerprints are on each floor and for those who look intently, you too can spot their cat’s paw prints memorialized in clay.
Pictures by Jean Hay de Slade, courtesy of Epure.
The Home
Above: Justine and Jean redesigned what had been a bake home relationship from the early Nineteenth century right into a board-and-batten cottage impressed by the fisherman’s homes of Cap Ferret, the place they lived 10 years in the past. The construction’s solely unique elements are three stone partitions.
Haute Saintonge is within the Charente-Maritime, on the southwest coast of France between Bordeaux and Cognac. “It’s a spot the place you may breath,” says Justine, who, having previously lived and labored in the identical constructing, felt very prepared for a division of labor.
Above: Justine and Jean did all the design work—”with pencil on paper, the old style method”—and recruited Justine’s very helpful father together with some native tradespeople to assist with the development work. “We needed a comfy, ecological home, minimalist too,” says Justine.
The range is a French-made Supra—it and two radiators (in Alma’s room and the tub) warmth the entire home. The brand new flooring is painted concrete.
Above: Jean constructed the lounge daybeds out of wooden from the previous roof, and the couple put in the horizontally-oriented home windows themselves. “That is the place we learn and drink wine—Bordeaux, after all,” says Justine. The painted carpet is by Mathilde Labrouche of Coté Pierre.Above: Jean integrated an previous door into his design for the kitchen china cabinet.Above: The kitchen cupboards are redwood stained brown and detailed with tiles of white-glazed black clay that the couple made themselves. The Limoge porcelain Level Suspension Lights are a longstanding Epure design.Above: The couple say they had been very pleased when their cat left its prints on the kitchen tiles as they had been being made. The favourite cooking pot on the shelf is stone by Soh Fashion of Korea.Above: Jean constructed the meals cabinet from weathered previous wooden. The painted partitions downstairs are in Farrow & Ball Drop Fabric.Above: The kitchen desk and door got here from antiques retailers. Epure’s Linen Vase is from a group of made-to-order items textured with linen. A carpenter good friend constructed the stair to the couple’s design enclosed with battens.Above: The bedrooms are paneled in pine boards salvaged from the roof and have wood flooring painted, just like the do-it-yourself headboard, in Farrow & Ball’s Skimming Stone. The chair pillow is by Khadi & Co.Above: Alma’s mattress is a Nineteen Fifties design handed down from her grandfather. The quilt is from Garbo & Associates and the Flock Cellular is by Bookhou of Toronto.
The Studio
Above: Referred to as a Charentaise, the early Nineteenth-century constructing pre-dates the home and is constructed of whitewashed native limestone. It was initially lived in by a multigenerational household of farmers who labored within the vineyards of Cognac. The connected secure, behind the vegetable backyard, is the couple’s subsequent undertaking: they plan to show it into an residence for renters and visiting purchasers and associates.Above: Justine and Jean of their glazing room, newly plastered by Justine’s father (with the unique chiseled stone door encompass preserved). The home’s renovated inside is 200 sq. meters (2,000-plus sq. ft), divided into a number of work areas plus a showroom.
Above: The couple make Epure’s molds and bundle orders in an area that had been two bedrooms. Native masons rebuilt the uncovered stone wall; the couple did all the wiring with Justine’s father. The Level Conical Suspension Mild is an Epure design.Above: Justine and Jean are presently growing a line of tableware for an area Cognac model. A temper board and samples in progress are proven right here. The desk is oak and porcelain—”it’s handmade by us and customizable for our purchasers.”Above: Jean pours liquid clay right into a slip forged mildew for a cup. Epure is presently simply Jean and Justine, plus an apprentice.Above: Justine glazes Canele Cups in entrance of a preserved previous wall “like a sky.”Above: Alma likes to play within the workplace—”it’s her doll kitchen.” The fireside was a shock unveiled behind a demolished wall. “We cleaned and painted the room in white lime and lined the ground with sisal,” says Justine.Above: The mantel in Justine’s workplace shows an Epure collage.Above: Justine’s desk is a classic desk that she partly painted white, lit by a sculptural Lampe Gras Clamp Mild. Jean added the vintage double doorways and constructed the cabinets with a good friend.
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