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Alice Gavalet

Alice Gavalet

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    Alice Gavalet
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    After studying at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres and the Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Alice Gavalet began her career working for major fashion and interior design brands, and with designer Elizabeth Garouste. In 2010, she decided to refocus on her personal creation and set up her own studio in Nogent-sur-Marne, filled with felt-tip sketches and lined with boxes, vases, mirrors, lamps and other unique original pieces. Her creative process begins with drawing, a daily discipline that enables her to formalize her thoughts and bring her new pieces to life. She then assembles different materials – ceramics, metal, wood, fabric – and geometric shapes, combining them with bright colors to create objects that are witty, strong and honest. To Gavalet, ceramics is a game. The playful aspect of her work can be seen at every stage of creation, which must be joyful and instinctive. Her innate sense of color and pattern is enhanced by her work in engobe, which she favors for its matte appearance, and by her spontaneous technique, using slabs and colombin. Her sources of influence range from textiles to art brut and the decorative arts, from Betty Woodman and Ettore Sottsass to Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet and Paul Cox. Her pieces are strong but unprovocative, imposing themselves naturally. It’s this signature that attracts attention in France and abroad, where she exhibits extensively in galleries, art centers and Parisian and international fairs. She exhibited her work at Paris Design Week 2020 and has been featured in Architectural Digest, the Financial Times and Wallpaper Magazine.

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  • Selected Artworks
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Blue Ribbon Vase), 2024
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      Untitled (Blue Ribbon Vase), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Blue Round Lamp), 2024
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      Untitled (Blue Round Lamp), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Vase II), 2024
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      Untitled (Vase II), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Flower Lamp 2), 2024
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      Untitled (Flower Lamp 2), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Pink Tartan Lamp), 2024
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      Untitled (Pink Tartan Lamp), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Flower Lamp 1), 2024
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      Untitled (Flower Lamp 1), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Pair of Blue Guéridons), 2024
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      Untitled (Pair of Blue Guéridons), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Guéridon 1), 2023
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      Untitled (Guéridon 1), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Guéridon 2), 2023
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      Untitled (Guéridon 2), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Pair of Pink and Blue Sconces), 2024
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      Untitled (Pair of Pink and Blue Sconces), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Blue Tartan Sculpture), 2024
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      Untitled (Blue Tartan Sculpture), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Pair of Yellow and Blue Sconces), 2024
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      Untitled (Pair of Yellow and Blue Sconces), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Yellow Tartan Lamp 1), 2023
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      Untitled (Yellow Tartan Lamp 1), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Yellow Tartan Lamp 3), 2023
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      Untitled (Yellow Tartan Lamp 3), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Yellow Tartan Lamp 2), 2023
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      Untitled (Yellow Tartan Lamp 2), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Blue & White Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Blue & White Vase), 2015
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Pink and Blue Lamp), 2024
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      Untitled (Pink and Blue Lamp), 2024
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Blue Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Blue Vase), 2015
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Orange & Black Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Orange & Black Vase), 2015
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Red & Black Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Red & Black Vase), 2015
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Orange & Yellow Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Orange & Yellow Vase), 2015
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Green Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Green Vase), 2015
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Vase Pois), 2023
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      Untitled (Vase Pois), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled. (Blue and Yellow Vase), 2023
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      Alice Gavalet
      Untitled. (Blue and Yellow Vase), 2023
    • Alice Gavalet Untitled (Brown Vase), 2015
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      Untitled (Brown Vase), 2015
  • Exhibitions & Fairs

    • Group Show | Summer 2024
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      Group Show | Summer 2024

      July 16 - October 31, 2024
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      Design Miami

      December 5 - 10, 2023
    • Group Show | Inscape
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      Group Show | Inscape

      April 3 - 28, 2023
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    • Object Lesson
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      Object Lesson

      July 21, 2025
      French artisan Alice Gavalet’s works have a distinctive sense of color and pattern. They’re also lighthearted, almost naïve, in their handcrafted appearance. All these qualities come to bear in her...
    • Kelly Behun Created an Art Museum in the Clouds for a Manhattan Homeowner
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      Kelly Behun Created an Art Museum in the Clouds for a Manhattan Homeowner

      February 12, 2024
      “I can’t decide where I want to sit and have coffee because it’s so nice,” the owner says. When a pair of Miami art collectors bought a pied-à-terre on the...
    • 11 Must-See at Miami Art Week
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      11 Must-See at Miami Art Week

      December 4, 2023
      Every December, Miami transforms into the art capital of the world as global collectors and design connoisseurs descend onto the sunny South Florida city. Miami Art Week plays host to...
    • Twenty First at Design Miami 2023
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      Twenty First at Design Miami 2023

      November 23, 2023
      New York gallery Twenty First hosts a showcase at design fair Design Miami during the 2023 edition of Miami art week. The art and design gallery - which presents modern...
    • Salon art + design 2023 assembles unique collectibles and conversations
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      Salon art + design 2023 assembles unique collectibles and conversations

      November 10, 2023
      Salon Art + Design returns to Park Avenue Armory for 2023, as the highlight of New York City’s fall arts calendar. Taking place from November 9-12, the 12th edi!on of...
    • INSCAPE: A GROUP EXHIBITION CELEBRATING CREATIVE INSTINCT
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      INSCAPE: A GROUP EXHIBITION CELEBRATING CREATIVE INSTINCT

      May 9, 2023
      Twenty First Gallery is pleased to present Inscape, a group exhibition in celebration of creative instinct, the poetic reflex in a person that defines their instinctual aesthetic choices. Featuring 35...
    • 5 Must-See Collectible Design Shows Around the World in April 2023
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      5 Must-See Collectible Design Shows Around the World in April 2023

      April 9, 2023
      “Inscape” at Twenty First Gallery | New York The latest exhibition at Renaud Vuaillat’s Twenty First Gallery in Manhattan shines a spotlight on the magic of creative instinct, the powerful...
    • 16 Female Makers We Are Still Obsessed With
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      16 Female Makers We Are Still Obsessed With

      November 18, 2021
      AD has profiled some of the most talented women in the business. AD has long championed the work of independent makers, whose cutting-edge creations offer new windows into the world...
    • One to watch - Alice Gavalet
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      One to watch - Alice Gavalet

      June 26, 2021
      “It all starts with shape and color,” says this rising-star French ceramist. Using a knifelike tool, Gavalet slices earthenware into flat forms that she then hand-assembles into three dimensions, firing...

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