Magazine B gives each ad-free issue over to a single brand, and No. 85 turns its documentary lens on Astier de Villatte, the Paris ceramics house founded in 1996 by Ivan Pericoli and Benoît Astier de Villatte. No seasonal hooks, no sponsored pages — just a considered account of an aesthetic built on imperfection, where hand-thrown black terracotta is finished in a milky white glaze that never sets quite the same way twice.
The issue moves through the atelier in Paris's 13th arrondissement, the SAIG printery, and an incense workshop on Awaji Island, Japan, with interviews from both founders and sculptor Setsuko Klossowska de Rola. Published by JOH & Company under editor Suyong Joh, this English-language edition runs 152 pages, softcover, with a debossed floral motif on its cover.
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