The chairs allowed her to create pieces that didn’t need to serve a purpose. “I said, ‘I think it’s very fragile for a child,’” Belloir recalls, “ ‘and maybe dangerous.’” With slender, snappable legs, the 6½-inch-tall chair, hand-built from stoneware, was not designed for a dollhouse but rather as a sculptural object, one of 30 that Belloir started making in 2020 while taking a break from producing the expressive but exactingly constructed housewares for which she is known: glossy fruit baskets assembled from fat tubes of latticed clay and spherical stoneware bud vases with towers of delicate scaffolding. LAST DECEMBER, THE French ceramist Solenne Belloir was working in her studio in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement when a potential customer came in asking about a piece in the window: a spindly white chair with a high back that suggests a throne for a pixie, and which she wanted to buy for a little girl.
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