Radical Romanticism : a new phase begins

À Ras Bord | Côte des Basques, 2026

Some days ago, at sunset, I placed a series of vases on the wall of La Côte des Basques, in Biarritz.

On stones, grey, white and ochre, shaped over years by water and salt.

Every vein tells a story of slow transformation : the same transformation clay undergoes when it passes through fire.

Placing these pieces on the rocks felt less like an intervention than a continuation.

Ceramics are not foreign to that landscape. They are an accelerated version of it, carried by hand.

I grew up surrounded by nature. Large windows, changing light, trees, the ocean never far away.

After years living in Lisbon, I felt the need to step outside the studio and work differently : to make pieces directly inside a landscape rather than simply for one.

The À Ras Bord series was born in those conditions, among oak trees, before being placed facing the ocean.

The green and the blue.

The gesture at the edge of the everyday

What interests me in this kind of gesture is the use of what already exists : walls, natural plinths, urban architecture.

These surfaces are never neutral.

For the length of an evening, the pieces inhabit them.

I wanted, for a moment, to become something close to an impressionist ceramicist : responding to light, weather, immediacy and movement rather than control.

The installation existed only temporarily.

A precise light.
A tide.
A disappearing moment.

Full to the brim

À Ras Bord.

At the limit.
At the edge.
Holding presence before overflow.

Fragile pieces on hard rock, facing an immense ocean, in a light that does not last.

Nothing permanent.
Everything present.

Radical Romanticism

I want to name something more clearly.

What I am trying to do through the studio, installations, objects and public space, I now call Radical Romanticism.

The romantic exists in the attention to landscape, gesture and material.

The radical perhaps lies elsewhere : in intuition, in refusal of convention, in making from necessity rather than permission.

Working from feeling.
Listening before rationalising.
Allowing emotion to structure form.

That attention to objects, materials, spaces and people still matters in a culture organised around speed and disposability.

A new phase begins

This collection marks the beginning of a new phase :

more mature,
more assured,
more free.

A clearer way of sharing how I see the world through objects.

The Flower Vase featured in the installation is part of this series : handmade, one at a time, in small batches.

Each piece is unique and will not be restocked.

→ Discover the last pieces from the À Ras Bord collection

Thank you for being here.

Cécile