Ceramic route

The Verdurier pavilion

4min walk Pavillon du Verdurier, 15 Rue du College

The project here is more a symbolic gesture than the creation of a new element. This is to replace the broken tile that we noticed on the facade of the Pavillon du Verdurier. The function of the gesture is twofold: it “repairs” the Pavilion while de facto integrating it into the discovery trail. This integration is done smoothly, without significant modification of the existing one. This is one of the somewhat secret parts of the project.

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Duplicate a cornice

1min walk Corner rue Gaignolle and rue du Clocher

The intervention at the corner of rue Gaignolle and rue du Clocher is a pure formal game with the architecture. The piece is mirrored on the small isolated cornice in the middle of the facade. It takes up its shape and shifts it with the look of porcelain and the color treatment common to the elements of the course.

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Restitution of a downspout

1min walk Rue du Portail Imbert, 87000 Limoges

The impressive retaining wall of the Présidial school, rue du Portail Imbert, has an incomplete rainwater pipe. We propose to reconstruct it with porcelain elements. The piece plays with the discrepancy of the fine material and worked with a purely technical element, rarely considered to carry an ornamental or symbolic value. It is the ordinary that is valued here, reversing the usual perception of the networks of pipes and cables that we try to hide but which nevertheless ensure the functioning of the city.

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Repair of a second paving

1min walk 10 corner Turgot and Adrien Dubouché

At the corner of rue Turgot and rue A. Dubouché is a stone paving, a large portion of which seems to have been awkwardly “patched” with asphalt. We propose to replace this coating by a fine porcelain paving streaked in its thickness. The ridges enrich the paving with effects of light and texture while ensuring the non-slippery of the intervention. The proportions of the slabs and the edge-to-edge jointing in the hollow of the streaks make the whole thing different from a simple usual tiling. The figure is bordered by a listel which affirms its irregular outline and ensures its good performance. This intervention therefore does not attenuate the gap but rather proposes to take advantage of it to magnify it. The accident gives the work its shape, and the porcelain in turn gives the accident an unusual value.

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Paving repair

5min walk 9 Rue Adrien Dubouché

This paving repair proceeds from the same intention as the intervention located a little further down rue Adrien Dubouché.

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Replacement of balusters

2min walk Place Winston Churchill Quai F, Place Winston Churchill, 87000 Limoges

Three missing balusters on two entrances to the Jardin d'Orsay are taken up in porcelain, on a simplified geometry and connected to the rest of the course by the work of color. Emblematic of the project, these interventions alone summarize the main issues. They are both repairs, replacements and a quotation of the existing. These three objects restore the initial harmony of the stairs while introducing a shift through the juxtaposition of stone and porcelain.

Replacement of two basins

3min walk Courthouse, Passage d'Orsay, 87000 Limoges, France

This replacement restores to the hidden entrance of the Jardin d'Orsay the two vases which seem to have for a time completed the alignment still visible above the car park of the former Palais de Justice. Here again, it is the existing that dictates the forms to be produced, the two porcelain vases taking up a simplified geometry of the objects still in place. The work on the color ensures consistency with the other elements of the course.

Source: FLORIAN BRILLET / NICOLAS LELIEVRE

Replacing a building number

1min walk 8 rue Othon Peconnet

This intervention is a pure and simple replacement of the plaque at n°8 rue Othon Peconnet, which is no longer in place. Discreet, this intervention fulfills a precise and essential function while asking the visitor of the course to open a particularly attentive eye. It is one of the most secret parts of the course.

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Re-occupation of a niche

5min walk 44 Place de la Motte, 87000 Limoges, France

Located at the corner of rue Adrien Dubouché and place de la Motte, this intervention plays in an unexpected way with the scale of the place. The object is as small and discreet as the place is vast and open. In contrast to a monumental approach, the porcelain piece here adopts the posture of a small hidden treasure on a scale comparable to that of a piece of tableware.

The piece is housed in a small vacant niche on the entrance pediment of 44 place de la Motte. It will be made from a mold with the exact dimensions of the niche so as to produce a 14% smaller replica after the porcelain has been fired. What is at stake here is therefore as much the niche itself as an essential element of the porcelain manufacturing process.

Source: FLORIAN BRILLET / NICOLAS LELIEVRE

Replacement of a wall gable

8min walk 2 Boulevard Gambetta, 87000 Limoges, France

This intervention completes the concrete “stump” at the end of the Haute Vienne ramp. This strange volume is topped with a striated surface in oven-blue enameled porcelain, on a principle also applied to other interventions. This is a finish on an imposing object and without quality despite its strategic location. A veritable gateway to Place Haute Vienne, it seems appropriate to give this concrete block a new value. The intervention can also be seen as a milestone that marks the entrance to the historic city center.

Source: FLORIAN BRILLET / NICOLAS LELIEVRE

Replacement of 2 vases

2min walk 1 Place de l'Eveche, 87000 Limoges, France

This intervention restores to the Museum of Fine Arts the two large vases missing at the ends of the courtyard on the park side. It echoes the two vases in the Jardin d'Orsay, in a place of high symbolic value.

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Replacement of a seat

4min walk Place Saint-Etienne, 15 Rue Haute Cité, 87000 Limoges

The recent development of the Cathedral forecourt offers wooden foundations mounted on mineral blocks. One of them being missing, we propose to restore the seat function by arranging simple porcelain modules straddling the stone.

Duplicate a cornice

12min walk 19 rue du Pont Saint-Etienne, 87000 Limoges

In direct proximity to the Pont St Etienne intervention, this room marks the arrival at the top of the access climb to the old town. The volume leans on an existing cornice and operates on a principle similar to that used at the corner of rue de Gaignolle and rue du Clocher. The offsets of the initial shape are not kept but echoed by a series of grooves at the same intervals.

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Replacing an ornament

16 Avenue du General de Gaulle, 87000 Limoges, France

In front of 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, a ball of the railing separating from the railway is missing. The intervention replaces it with a blue enamelled ceramic version.

Source: FLORIAN BRILLET / NICOLAS LELIEVRE