How the SAM shaped French design
The Salon des Arts Ménagers – SAM for short – was France’s own “Ideal Homes” Exhibition. From 1926 to 1983, with a gap during WWII, it influenced popular French home design and aspirations like no other event.
Limoges porcelain gets the Loewy look
French Limoges porcelain gets the Loewy look A Bernardaud Ariès coffee cup designed by Raymond Loewy. It’s 1967, and in Limoges a small revolution is afoot, led by Pierre Bernardaud, director of Bernardaud porcelain, and Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design. Bernardaud, Limoges specialised in high quality porcelain tableware which sold in France and…