Irène Saussure
Artisanal ceramist & Earthenware stove restorer
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Fascinated by the preparation of raw materials and cooking over a fire, Irène Saussure trained in ceramics and specialized in stove-making. In 2019, she opened her workshop. She makes utilitarian pottery there and gives classes to promote a more sustainable art that is more connected to the material: the objects, handcrafted by her students, must be used on a daily basis.

« My goal, in making ceramic objects, is that some will survive through time without going out of fashion and that families will still use them a hundred years from now without remembering their origin. »

Irène Saussure restores old stoves, tiled stoves and other atypical ovens according to the rules of the art. In addition, her workshop is a friendly place where she likes to combine other areas with her know-how. She is working in particular on a plastic art project on the theme of deep endometriosis, a disease which affects one in ten women.

Degrees

2023, Specialist in stove and chimney systems, FeuSuisse in Wisen

2015, Federal Certificate of Competence (CFC) in Ceramics, Geneva

Distinction

2015, Swissceramics Prize, Graduation project at the School of Applied Arts