French artist and designer Olivia Cognet is based with her team in Vallauris, in the South of France, a historic cradle of ceramics where Picasso, Capron and so many others shaped the modern language of clay.

From this exceptional context, she continues toexplore ceramics as the fertile medium through which she expresses her boundless creativity. With the freedom this material affords to explore every type of shape and size, she creates monumental bas-reliefs and giant totems as well as chairs, tables, lamps and vases.

These unique pieces, handmade by the artist in her studio, all share the same high aesthetic, abstract and graphic standards. She draws inspiration from the lights and shadows of the landscapes of the Côte d’Azur, as well as from her years in California, with its modernist architecture and intense nature. Infusing a modern take on the great tradition of decorative arts, her works are both functional and powerfully evocative.