Contact
This site has no shopping cart: everything starts with a message, and I am the one who reads it.
How an order works
I don't sell online. Every order starts with a conversation: you tell me what you are after — a shape, dimensions, a number of pieces, how it will be used — and I tell you what is possible.
Then comes a quote. Once it is accepted, allow around three months. That wait is not paperwork: it is throwing, trimming, drying, bisque firing, glazing and the final firing. Nothing speeds up without the clay making you pay for it.
For a made-to-order piece, a deposit starts the work; the balance is settled on collection. Payment by WERO, card, PayPal — or cash if we meet.
Pieces are then handed over in person or sent by parcel.
Find me
The workshop is in Ancoisne, just south of Lille in northern France. Within the metropolitan area, handing pieces over in person is the simplest: we agree on a time, you leave with your pieces and we talk about the firing they came out of. Further afield, I pack them and send them by parcel.
Instagram is where the pieces show up first — often still raw, sometimes straight out of the kiln.
@alexlepotierAncoisne, near Lille, France
I throw stoneware from Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, a dense clay that resists a little before it gives. Firing is done mainly in an electric kiln, in an oxidation atmosphere; some with gas, in reduction, in a shared workshop. That is where the colour is decided: the same glaze never quite gives the same piece from one firing to the next.
Siret: 99455629800010
Write to me about
There is no bad reason to get in touch:
- a piece made to order — a shape, dimensions, a glaze;
- a matching set for your table: bowls, cups, plates;
- a piece seen on Instagram or in the gallery, to ask whether it is still around;
- a question about care: dishwasher, microwave, thermal shock;
- or simply to talk about working with clay.