13th exhibition « Rue des Métiers d’Art » in Nontron – October 27, 28 and 29 2023

BEAUTIFUL, SUSTAINABLE AND ETHICAL CREATIONS
Aesthetic, use, pleasure, exceptional, daily life, knowhow and materials:
THE PERFECT BALANCE!
30 arts and crafts workshops
Decoration, tableware art, jewels and fashion accessories
Unique items and little series
+ Workshops and demonstrations + An information point on the trainings

The 13th exhibition “Rue des Métiers d’Art” will occur on October 27, 28 and 29 2023 in Nontron in the heart of North Dordogne.
Around thirty arts and crafts creators will present their latest collections and will show their knowhow and creativity.
This edition 2023 gives prominence to the excellence of the gesture and an irreproachable aesthetic. For collectors and amators : the sculpture and the art object will be paticularly well represented!
The exhibition « Rue des Métiers d’Art » presents creators who master exceptional knowhow, who share our current concerns and aspire to a better future.
The public will rediscover emblematic creators but also 16 primo-exhibitors as discovery is in the heart of our identity.
Bootmaker, basket maker, feather worker, wool craftswomen, wood or ceramic sculptors with very personal universes, a carpenter who mixes tradition and modernity, fashion and ethical stylists, innovative and refined jewel creators, engraver or also an Angora wool producer… will know how to seduce our visitors!
They come from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and from France. The members of the Pole also have their own place this year again.
The public will find art objects, unique items or little series in the sectors of decoration, fashion and tableware art.
Numerous knowhow and materials will be represented: wood sculpture, ceramic, engraving, feather work, basket making, leather work, cutlery, engraving glass, textile creation, jewellery, boot making etc.
Workshops will allow young and adults to get initiated to these knowhows.
Finally, the exhibition will be deployed in the entire city with workshops and shops open to the public as well as the arts and crafts shop which is located rue Carnot during the restoration works of the castle.

« Rue des Métiers d’Art » affirms loud and clear that it is possible to consume differently with the arts and crafts. Buying an art and craft object means to buy something beautiful, ethical and sustainable! Buying an art and craft object also means to meet a craftperson and discover his/her personality, it allows to add human in our daily life.
In the heart of the countryside, a few hours away from big cities, our visitors will be able to acquire and discover original and sustainable objects produced in France and adapted to our modern use.

The exhibitors creators 2023 :
Élise Amiet – Élise Amiet Tricots (Knitter, textile creator), Lily Bahuon – Atelier Lily B (leather worker), Milena Barteau (ceramist), Élisa Boche – L’affabulette (engraver), Jacques Brinon – JB créations (cutlery manufacturer), Karen Cayuela – Les dessous de Karen (creator of fine lingerie), Jeremy Charlet – Olijay (feather worker), Pedro De Alves (sculptor, bronze maker), Citadelles et Mazenod (publishing house), Clothilde Deschamp (ceramist), Marie-Lucie Genet – Un panda cousu de fil blanc (Stylist, designer for children), Céline Giry – Gitzi création (ceramist), Hélène Joly – L’atelier des chemins (basket maker), Marc Gianferrari – Atelier entre terre et bois (wood turner), Marie Kastner (clothes creator in angora wool), Margarita Kempa – Maria Monari (jewel creator), Valérie Lacommare – Tout ô tour de la terre (ceramist), Marion Lebouteiller – Atelier Volumes (jewel creator), Fanny Lelong-Sonthonnax -Atelier Antiope (leather worker), Damien Maillet – Zinwood (wood turner), Guillaume Malignac and Yaël Descoings – Passage secret (porcelain ceramists), Amandine Pépin (jewel creator), Esther Pillot – Verdegrine (jewel creator and engraver), Typhaine Riffard – Samares Ailées (leather worker), Jean-Christophe Robin – J-C Robin menuiserie d’art (carpenter), Yolanda Rocabayera and Charlotte Peters – Atelier YoCha (wool craftswomen), Pauline Roques (art pearl creator, jewel and decorative objects creator in spun glass), Caroline Samuel – La Cakoquinerie (leather worker), Antoine Tournié – Savatôpié (boot maker) and Marie-Hélène Vallade-Huet (ceramist, sculptor).