Bouroullec: Cloud vases

In the context of a limited edition to accompany the Drawing book, the Bouroullec decided to make an object to be in keeping with their drawings.

They describe the process and the way they consider drawing: “We did some tests with different materials and we found ceramic, with its imperfect and vibrant character to be the right answer; its alterity belongs also to drawings’ nature. It was difficult to associate a finished object to this profusion of drawings and the principle of Clouds – based on the articulation of shapes and on the possibility of composition through these kind of organic black stains.

Two years ago, we made Drawing, a book where we put together more than 850 of our drawings. Inside, we distinguish two types of drawings: preliminary studies that we make before creating an object and, in parallel, drawings that aim to be only drawings. To us, these drawings are the mode of expression beyond objects. We can see them as something organic in connection with a practice, as a part of our global work. Drawing is in fact a practice in itself, something autonomous. In the book, we wanted to show this practice that is often a quite compulsive situation, completely different from the design context where only a few ideas emerge, and where it takes several years until the original idea becomes a physical object. Drawing is a direct and constant activity; its immediacy contrasts with the frustration that sometimes can appear in the design discipline.”