Creation Pelletier / Benjamin Pelletier

"Working and modeling clay has always been part of my life. I'm a pure product of free expression. Modeling and enameling are for me something natural, something instinctive."

Georges Pelletier was a French ceramist and artist born in Brussels in 1938, who died on February 12, 2024. A graduate of the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris, he passed on all his skills to his son Benjamin before his death, with the aim of seeing his art live on through him.

In 1961, he opened his first workshop in Paris, where he created his first one-off pieces. Spotted by the Maison Bobois for his talent, he supplied them with pieces from 1961 to 1973. He then moved to a new workshop in Cannes, which he shared with his son until the end of his life.

His work is imbued with a rich apprenticeship in the studios of Fernand Léger and Claude Pantzer, where he also met architect and designer Charlotte Perriand, with whom he exchanged ceramics.

His work is easily identifiable by its use of the ceramic as a sculptural material but also by his use of the solar form as a central motif. Her works let in subdued light, transforming them into dreamlike objects.

Private Choice 2024 will feature a range of mirrors, totems, floor lamps and sculptural lamps. These ceramic pieces feature the same solar forms: the openwork luminaires take on the appearance of photophores, bathing the room in soft light, while the mirrors topped with glazed ceramic rods reflect the desire to let the sun's rays into an interior.