French design book publisher Bernard Chauveau Editeur sent us an email for this "important book about the contemporary ceramics creations in Craft Limoges". Published in french but with english texts, The Ceramic Experience, L'Expérience de la Céramique, has an evocative subtitle, the arts of fire and earth (les arts du feu et de la terre) that piqued my curiousity. The book is a visual reference presenting the fruit of fifteen years of ceramic creation at the Center of research for ceramics and enamel applications in art and design in Limoges, France. Since 1993, the center has brought together over sixty international artists, designers, visual artists and architects "to adopt ceramic as their means of creation and expression and to experiment with the material and its limits to the full.". Artists such as Ron Arad, Matali Crasset, Ross Lovegrove, David Lynch, Ingo Maurer, and Martin Szekely. It won't be easy to get outside of France, but it is listed at Amazon.fr. Hardcover, 224 pages, 220 photos, 57 euros at Amazon.fr.

+ L'Expérience de la Céramique at Amazon.fr