With degrees from Ecole Duperré and Ecole du Louvre in Paris, and collaborations with the Mobilier National and the Centre Artisanal de la Terre, Fabienne Auzolle has proven that her knowledge, coupled with the techniques she's discovered on her travels to places including Burkina Faso, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Iran and Norway, have blended together to make her the ceramicist she is today. She works mainly with enamelled faience, a European traditional fine tin-glazed pottery, but also combines ceramics with textiles to create unique sculptures and installations. Having exhibited her work in galleries, museums and international art fairs in France and abroad, she says of her career: “I have the feeling I’m dreaming my life and I’ve been so lucky.”

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Marik Korus (real name Marie Claude Korus) takes inspiration from nature, the sea, architecture and aspects of her environment that spark her imagination. She is constantly inspired by the nature in Charente-Maritime, France, where she has lived for more than 15 years. She trained as a teacher of artisanal crafts and it was during this training that she discovered ceramics. At first, she simply found clay an attractive medium, however she then realised that the material threw up constant questions, right up until the final firing. After investigating the raw qualities of clay, she now researches ways to increase the transparency and lightness of porcelain. She compares her love for porcelain to eating chocolate: “You can’t stop, as long as it’s still there!”

Korus, Marie Claude

Addicted to porcelain

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Pascale Morin started ceramics having previously worked as an illustrator, scenographer and visual artist creating paper objects. In 2014 she purchased her own kiln and opened her workshop By Rita. Her work is inspired by the emotion of life, which she wishes to represent through her craft. A passionate craftswoman, she describes the creation of a piece as an irrepressible need to express with her hands through the material and the work: "the start of the process is like an urgency to create, and the baking of the clay is filled with quivering and excitement." When talking about clay, Pascale describes a true love story with a living material, a partner in creation with whom she must dialogue in order to go forward and bring to life her creations.

Morin, Pascale

A love story

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Alice Riehl first trained in marketing and pursued that profession for ten years. However, her heart was not fully into what she did and after much soul-searching she woke up one morning having “decided to allow myself to move into a manual job.” Alice chose ceramics simply because she was seduced by the material. “Its plasticity seemed more accessible than other materials such as wood, which I also like but whose hardness scared me.” She decided to train in ceramics by taking an adult education course at the Institut de Céramique Française in Sèvres. Here, she discovered porcelain, which immediately became her medium of choice.

Riehl, Alice

Seduced by ceramics

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Through ceramics, Audrey Jezic has reconnected with her love for creating. After an initial career in finance, she chose to follow a path more in tune with her true desires: clay ceramics. Since her childhood Audrey liked to draw, but when she started experimenting with clay and 3D shapes she was immediately taken in. After a few years of training in ceramic turning, she set up her own atelier, where she experiments in both stoneware and porcelain. Her work is characterised by her "dodus", or chubby, sculptures: faceless yet expressive figures, whose round silhouettes and simple lines express human attitude. Audrey enjoys working on the raw form of her material, its textures and colours.

Jezic, Audrey

Softness of form

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Developed in partnership with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte and made possible by the support of Cartier, Homo Faber in Città gives you a rare chance to visit over 70 artisan workshops. The project is developed in collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Confartigianato Imprese Venezia, CNA Venezia, Consorzio Promovetro Murano, The Venice Glass Week and Venezia da Vivere.

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Although the Michelangelo Foundation researches the talents for its projects autonomously, collaboration with our ambassadors is fundamental. Over 120 associations, schools and institutions allow us to map the continents for craftsmanship and to have partners in each country who share our vision and goals. In addition, we have asked well-known personalities in the craft, design and art world to be our ambassadors in the cities where they live, so that their recommendations can offer a unique insight into craftsmanship in the major cities of Europe and beyond.

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Discover the addresses of esteemed manufacturers, well known for producing high quality objects across a wide variety of crafts. Read their stories and find out where you can shop their contemporary pieces, see their archive collections and even in some cases visit their workshops. Find exceptional ateliers where artisans collaborate creatively to create fine pieces of craftsmanship. Reach out to them to commission something special.

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All the artisans and small workshops featured in Homo Faber Guide have been carefully researched and selected. They are presented and narrated through a selection of images and an interview, which allows readers to immerse themselves in the universe of these makers who exemplify excellence in their individual fields or are promising talents of the future. Find masters and rising stars who share the same passion and determination, and whose workshops are ready to share their secrets with visitors.

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Are you eager to discover a city through craftsmanship? Do you wish to spend a few hours visiting an applied arts museum or attending a course on a craft with one of the masters featured in Homo Faber Guide? Browse the section dedicated to experiences and find your next adventure.

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An expert artisan is an accomplished artisan who has been in activity for more than ten years. He or she may also be engaged in passing on their knowledge to the next generations, but they have been doing so for less than seven years. Beyond this, they will become a Master artisan.

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Homo Faber Guide provides you with a selection of the best addresses across Europe and further afield, where you will be able to discover and purchase exceptional objects, some of which are created by artisans featured in Homo Faber Guide.

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Homo Faber Guide is an online platform dedicated to craftsmanship that allows you to discover artisans and their masterpieces; explore museums, visit galleries and shops selling unique objects; enjoy experiences in cities across Europe and beyond.

Homo Faber Guide is a signature project developed by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, an international non-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, which was set up in 2016 thanks to the intuition of Franco Cologni and Johann Rupert. The Michelangelo Foundation’s mission is to celebrate and preserve master craftsmanship, and for this reason it has created a map of the most significant representatives in this field, with the aim of connecting all its protagonists: artisans, designers, gallery owners, art curators, collectors and enthusiasts of high-quality handmade pieces.

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Are you an artisan, atelier or manufacturer? Would you like to be featured in Homo Faber Guide? The Michelangelo Foundation encourages self-assessment initiatives and is pleased to evaluate new members to appear on the Guide or in other projects. Thanks to the Master’s Touch Evaluation Tool, every artisan can send their application: register and access a questionnaire to see if you fulfill the 11 criteria for excellence that stand behind all the activities of the Michelangelo Foundation. If your answers reach the minimum requirement, your application will be brought to our attention; if, on the contrary, you should score below the minimum requirement, we will give you some points for improvement, in the hope that you may participate in future initiatives of the Michelangelo Foundation.

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A master artisan is an accomplished artisan who has been in activity for more than ten years, and who has also been engaged in passing on his or her expertise to the younger generations for more than seven years. This is in keeping with one of the key values of the Michelangelo Foundation: the transmission of knowledge in craftsmanship.

Who is a Master artisan?

Find museums handpicked for their links to contemporary craftsmanship and the exquisite collections they have on display. In each city, discover a museum of interest and organise your visit. From Italian museums displaying coral collections, glass pieces and ceramics to decorative art museums in Russia and Greece, marvel at the variety of museums exhibiting masterpieces, showcasing techniques and recounting histories.

Museums

A rising star is an artisan who has been active for less than ten years, and who is capable of expressing his or her craft with competence, creativity and originality. Whether self-taught or trained, the rising star represents the future of craftsmanship, in creativity, concerns and approaches.

Who is a Rising star?

The artisans featured in Homo Faber Guide have been selected through a meticulous assessment process based on the 11 criteria for excellence, identified by Alberto Cavalli, Executive Director of the Michelangelo Foundation, in the volume The Master’s Touch, written with researchers Giuditta Comerci and Giovanna Marchello. The members of the Michelangelo Foundation’s network who have been invited to participate in sourcing artisans for the Guide use an evaluation tool based on these criteria. In this way, they can identify the most suitable artisans to include in the project.

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