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About Claude Dumas
Claude Dumas is a French sculptor, designer and ceramist, born in 1955. After training as a ceramist in Augusto Tozzola's studio and studying at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he founded his design creation company in 1983 where he produced vases and decorative art objects. He is also known for his various collaborations with artists such as Georges Jeanclos, Giuseppe Penone and Claire Tabouret. In 2002 he created the sculpture-ceramic section of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which he directs and within which he teaches.
Claude Dumas designs his pieces like a sculptor. He makes perfectly functional objects whose purpose is not their function. His objects are part of a formal alphabet where each piece evokes a letter and a historical period: the N vase stands hieratically like a high relief from ancient Egypt; the Z vase, a cubist object, is an assembly of Medici and Alberello vases from the Italian Renaissance. The shapes are architectural, the object is ergonomic. The angles are soft, the curves precise. Its mat enamelling is its signature.