Nerites
Collection Elsa Foulon Collection
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- Elsa Foulon
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The story
The Nerites is a wall-mounted ceramic sculpture by Elsa Foulon, from the Elsa Foulon Collection.
Three ceramic layers build the piece: a base form in warm beige, then two off-white shapes laid one over the other, their contours irregular and their surfaces smooth and matte. Two small brass pins fix the composition to the wall and remain visible, a deliberate choice that acknowledges the construction rather than concealing it. The layering extends the piece outward from the wall in gradual planes, creating depth without requiring significant projection.
The material is smooth and matte throughout, a ceramic with a low-fired glaze that produces a dry, non-reflective surface. The tonal range runs from warm beige at the base to a cooler off-white at the outermost layer.
Within the Elsa Foulon Collection, Nerites operates as a study in layered plane composition, its form resolved through subtraction and overlap rather than through the accumulation of mass.
About Elsa Foulon
Elsa Foulon came to ceramics through a different door. The daughter of an antique dealer and later a dealer in 20th-century decorative arts herself, she spent years building a visual archive of objects made with conviction. That accumulation now shapes her approach: ceramic lighting fixtures conceived as sculpture, forms simultaneously free and precise, their sensibility drawn from both artistic instinct and hard-won technique.
The medium resisted the scale she wanted. Large-format ceramic work demands a kind of problem-solving that goes beyond craft, so she developed her own plate technique and proprietary materials, achieving generous volumes without sacrificing the structural lightness her organic forms require. The Antigone series, whose pendant and wall versions seem to float against any surface, is where this technical resolution becomes most visible.
Delivery
Every piece is packed and shipped under insurance, from the workshop to you. White glove delivery (unpacking, installation, packaging removal) is available on request. Delivery is not charged at checkout: we send you a quote within 24 business hours of your order. You have 5 days to accept and pay it (secure payment link or bank transfer), otherwise your order is cancelled and fully refunded.
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