Ceramic Coffee Table | Roger Capron and Jean Derval
Vintage Roger Capron and Jean Derval hand painted ceramic coffee table with bamboo legs
82 x 42 x H54cm
Jean Derval’s vocation for ceramic started when he worked for famous ‘maison’ Christofle. In 1945, he learned how to make ceramics with Camille Gendras in Maubrou-Pigaglio’s workshop. In 1947, Jean Derval joined his friends Robert Picault and Roger Capron in Vallauris where they created pottery workshop. Jean Derval met Picasso in 1949 and trained with the master over two years. Derval proposed a directory of domestic pottery, essentially composed of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic inspirations reinterpreted from the lessons of cubism and abstraction.
Roger Capron (1922 - 2006) was an influential French ceramicist, known for both his tiled tables and his use of recurring motifs such as stylized branches and geometrical suns. After working as an art teacher, he moved to Vallauris in 1946 and, along with Robert Picault and Jean Derval, founded a ceramics workshop called l’Atelier Callis.