Arts and crafts Poitou-Charentes

In this art grocery store, you will find crafts and artistic creations, unique pieces imagined by about thirty designers to give a touch of fantasy to your home or to your outfit. Enter the house of the sweet Carine Souriau and discover her selection of poetic, offbeat and colorful objects. Installed on antique furniture, jewelry, bags, kits of all kinds, textiles, lighting, decorative objects and baby accessories abound. In the tea room, don't hesitate to pick from the delicatessen products.

Located in one of the most beautiful areas of France, this charming boutique is a must-see! What a pleasure to come in, chat with Amélie and discover her creations. This artisan wax-maker meticulously crafts sculpted candles and scented melts from quality raw materials such as perfumes from Grasse. The results are magnificent! Original and designer, these candles will add a decorative touch that's sure to make a lasting impression. Amélie also offers dry hot-water bottles for a moment of comfort.

SAlon de thé, GAlerie d'art, BOUtique de créateurs? What is Mi-SaGaBou and is it really so important to label it? For Marie Rousseau, owner of the place, the most important thing is that you feel good. Here, the arts are combined with lunch and tea time. In this townhouse, refurbished to welcome us, artists and creators, local or not, come to exhibit their production. Jewelry, candles, frames, clothing for all: there are many gift ideas that parade according to the seasons.

It's a showcase for some fifteen local artisans, a concentration of original creations! In the store and garden, you won't know where to turn. There are gift ideas to suit all tastes and budgets. Inside, pottery, leather goods, jewelry, soap, hats, bags, paint, wooden toys, ceramics, glass flowers... Colours, materials and shapes delight the eye. Outside, you'll find unique sculptures. Every day, a designer takes it in turns to run the store, providing an opportunity to talk about his or her craft and passion.

The ARTelier de la Gartempe is Sylvie Edeline who offers courses and courses of painting, ceramic sculpture and calligraphy. Sylvie paints abstract landscapes, a kind of invitation to escape and reflection. And that's what it invites you to do if you decide to start the adventure. Trained at the National School of Decorative Arts in Limoges, she shares her passion with young people in the Vienna department and adults wishing to participate in the courses. Ceramic modelling, raku cooking, you will learn different modelling techniques (stretch, columbian, plate, blur, etc.). But Sylvie will also introduce you to the artist's book, notebook of notes, where his thoughts and plastic notions blend. Children's workshops are also possible. They can discover pictorial techniques, calligraphy, etc.

Sylvie Sallet-Cerbeau's workshop is located in a beautiful, typically charentais hamlet with an old calvaire, a laundry and other curiosities. Sylvie manufactures utilitarian and decorative glazed land.

Nicolas and Taumah are true guardians of the tradition of old-fashioned screen printing, with a rare and precise know-how. A key player in the world of printmaking and screen printing well beyond the region, they specialize in commissions and prints, publishing and the transmission of their art in close collaboration with numerous artists.

With their passion for listening, they'll find the ideal solution for your silkscreen prints or prestigious posters for events, clients or special occasions.

In her workshop-boutique, Fanny Laugier creates porcelain creations in a contemporary style, very pure, with graphic motifs or with material effects. Made with a plate, she spreads the clay which is then cut, folded and assembled to form a vase, a plate, a bottle... Finally, everything is fired in a kiln at the back of her workshop, at high temperature. The cups or mugs, with their corrugated cardboard effect, are astonishing by their raw and fragile side. His creations can also be found on the tables of several gastronomic restaurants.

Michel Forgeneuf carries out all kinds of wooden objects, including children's games and decorations, but also crockery. It was forty years since this passionate manual work was launched in his small business and we are particularly snowed by the quality of his website and catalog. Take a look before you go to see the extent of its know-how.

They have been potters from father to son for generations. Today, Frédéric, the son, and Michel, the father, perpetuate the tradition while modernizing with new manufacturing and online sales techniques. They offer the opportunity to open up to other traditions such as charentais biting or cooking in a devil.

Alain Villette has carved many monumental metal animals. A blue giraffe is visible in the brewery garden at Paul. Another giraffe is installed near Angoulême Town Hall while a scorpion is watching the roundabout at the crossing of the Paris road and the road from Fours-à-Chaux to Gond-Pontouvre. But this gentleman who has come to weld at the late stage does not want to confine himself to a single animal carver's identity on metal, or even a sculptor. He also paints, writes sometimes and doesn't know what he will do tomorrow. " My job is to be Alain Villette ". So it is free to do what he wants.

Marie-Claude Fraigneau decorated handmade tiles. In his studio, she exhibits her productions with traditional and charentais designs. You can also ask him to customize the decor as you wish.

Installed in the village of Mouton (Nord Charente) since 1989, Joe Larter produces hand-made sandstone sandstone sandstone. The originality of its production has always been inscribed in a self-taught and self-taught approach, and is based on its mastery of the whole creative process. Whatever the subject, once the earth can be useful, the craftsman's imagination endeavors to produce an object that is both functional and beautiful. Possibility of courses, courses and vocational training.

On St. Brice's main street, Michèle works in his shop shop-shop. You can admire her tiles or paint them. She carries out her parts in a traditional style while also giving her personal touch that she is not on elements of crockery, lamps, umbrella pots, tiles, etc.

At 800 m from Brigueuil on the road of the factory, Jacques Marchand presents his ceramics creations from six clays in the region. It sculpts animals by searching for lines of strength, turning dishes and dishes that it decorate in a traditional or country way, makes vases turned and sometimes shaped. He will explain all this if you go through his studio-studio.

Under the guise of a small glass glass, the atelier of the vitrailliste Anne Pinto is discovered. Visitors will always be welcome. Its productions are also visible at the Stained Stained Glass Museum, which is right next door.

Humour, exuberance and fantasy are the watchwords of Marie Mazère's ceramic creations. Located in a hamlet, it exhibits in France and Europe. She will be happy to welcome you in her workshop, nevertheless take a call!

Here is a boutique that is unlike any other. What a pleasure to discover the universe of Marina Richer, a former theater costume designer who never stops diverting old materials that have become the sources of her inspiration over the years. The result is magnificent. The creations are made locally and you only need to visit the workshop to find what you are looking for. Travel pouch in marine canvas, basket in oyster mesh for walkers and cyclists and the famous backpacks in waterproof canvas.

For more than 25 years, Sylvain Berthommé has been making more than just knives. It was in the middle of the Atlantic that this skipper imagined a prototype made for sailors. The name was found, Farol, which means lighthouse in Portuguese, and the first model was named Cachalot, after the cetacean hunted a few years earlier in the Azores. Just a few steps from the Maritime Museum, the store allows you to find some beautiful products, knives of course (Gustave, Tibùr) but also bags and belts. A second store is located in La Pallice.