About
An encounter with clay and two different approaches: the technical skill for everyday ceramics, the vivid expression of a moment with the art of modeling.
Maison Capucine de la Boulaye creates everyday objects and ceramic sculptures in studios between Paris and Munich. Nothing is industrialised: every creation passes through the same hands, from the first coil to the packing.
Each creation is made by hand, sometimes in only one piece. Unique creations are signed and dated underneath. I also accept bespoke commissions for interior architecture projects.
Capucine de la Boulaye is a French ceramic artist based in Munich.
After a distinguished career in luxury hospitality and finance, Capucine chose to dedicate herself fully to her calling: sculpture and the art of ceramic.
Her connection to clay began in 2009, while pregnant with her first child, when she walked into the Paris studio of Hans Marks in Neuilly-sur-Seine. It was Hans who first gave her a taste for the material, initially training her in modelling from a live figure — a discipline that proved a true revelation. It was there, shaping the human form in clay, that her lasting bond with the earth was born. There is a particular satisfaction in bringing a creation to life from raw earth — each creation, whether intended or not, captures an emotional state at a precise moment in time. Every sculpture is the mirror of an emotion.
After several years devoted to the nude figure, Capucine turned her attention to wheel-throwing, joining the studio of Augusto Tozzola — the great ceramic master now based in Faïence. It was the radiant Maurane Closier who trained her in Tozzola's technique: precise, rigorous, and guided by his enduring mantra — "Master your classics, and only then will you become an artist."
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The clay
White stoneware and grogged clays, chosen for their grain and how they hold the fire. Each clay calls for its own gesture.
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The wheel
Thrown and modelled by hand, without moulds. The forms are reworked over several days, until they dry.
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The glaze
Glazes matte and mineral, brushed on or applied by dipping.
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The fire
Two firings, up to 1280 °C. The kiln decides the final shade; that is what makes every creation unique.
