EST. 2019 — LYON, FRANCE
Made by hand, kept for life.
Formé started with one wheel and a garage. Seven years later, it's still three people, one kiln, and a belief that the objects on your table should be made — not manufactured.
HOW IT STARTED
A wheel, a garage, and a stubborn idea.
Camille trained as a graphic designer before she ever touched clay. What pulled her toward ceramics was the opposite of a screen: something slow, something that could be wrong in a way that was still beautiful. She sold her first cups at the Sunday market on Quai Saint-Antoine, and never really stopped.
Elise and Noam joined within two years, each bringing a different hand to the glaze pot — Elise's botanical sprigs, Noam's geometric checks and stripes. The three still throw, paint and fire every single piece themselves, in the same workshop on Rue des Potiers.
Seven years, one kiln
2019
A wheel in a garage
Camille throws her first cups on a second-hand wheel in a rented garage on the edge of Lyon, selling them at the Sunday market.
2021
The atelier opens
Camille is joined by Elise and Noam. The three move into a small workshop on Rue des Potiers and start firing to order.
2023
Beyond Lyon
Formé begins travelling to markets in Paris, London and Brooklyn, carrying kiln seconds and new glazes with them.
2026
The atelier today
Still three makers, still one kiln. Every piece you can buy today passed through one of their hands.
HOW A PIECE IS MADE
Objects made to be used, not just admired.
A cup should reward every morning; a plate should invite touch. Beauty earned through daily use, not kept behind glass.
Thrown
500g of earthenware on the wheel, trimmed by hand the next day.
Painted
Each motif brushed freehand in underglaze. No stencils, no transfers.
Fired twice
Bisque, then glaze at 1080°C. Six to eight days from clay to table.
Signed
Stamped on the base and numbered in the kiln record.
See it, hold it.
Photos only tell you so much about weight and glaze. Come find us at the atelier or a market near you.