Thursday, June 24, 2010

"Alain VAGH" Ceramics France, Mosaic Piano I played in 1989 or 1990 in Paris, France!

 Updated to new link 27 May 2021:  
France, Var, the Dracenie, Salernes, the ceramist and des ...




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AND MANY MORE PHOTOS: CLICK HERE!

and a picture of him in his ceramic mosaic car in 1988 (right around when I met him in France):


Alain Vagh en su coche de cerámica
Alain Vagh en su coche de cerámica en febrero de 1988 en Francia. (Foto de Patrick SICCOLI / Gamma-Rapho a través de Getty Images)

Old link: 

Updated links Feb 2013: Provence is 1.5 hours driving from Nice, France!


http://www.fantasticprovence.com/section/home_r4/alain-vagh-the-crazy-potter-of-salernes_a156/1

Alain Vagh Céramic
Route d’Entrecasteau 83690 Salernes
Tél.0494706185
www.alainvagh.fr

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Updated links I found today (quick search):

www.provence-tile-ceramic.com/30_1.cfm?f=51-patine-fonce

www.alainvagh.fr/boutique.htm

www.alainvagh.fr/vava.htm

Newsletter: www.ceramic-lava-tile.com/6.cfm?p=309-newsletter

Alain Vagh
BP 3 83690 SALERNES EN PROVENCE
Phone : +33 (0)4 94 70 72 09 / Fax : +33 (0)4 94 70 77 52 E-mail : contact@alainvagh.com

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Alain Vagh mentioned in Google books

The Essence of Provence: The Story of L'Occitane - Google Books Result
by Pierre Magnan - 2003 - Business & Economics - 160 pages
The entire barge, including the deck, would be covered with ceramic tiles. Vagh lived and worked in Salernes, the ceramic capital of southern France. ...
books.google.com.gt/books?isbn=1559706821...


Gardens of the French Riviera

Gardens of the French Riviera - Page 207
by Louisa Jones - Gardening - 1994
... FRANCE ... ALAIN VAGH Route ...
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Le Moniteur architecture AMC. - Page 14
Architecture - 2000
... PATS DECO-F PEINTURES DU LAURAGAIS-F AGEPAN-F AGORA-D ALAIN VAGH CERAMIQUES-F
... f PPG CORONA-F PPG INDUSTRIES FRANCE-F AURUM CERAMICS- JUNKERS-F ...
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Frommer's Provence & the Riviera

Frommer's Provence & the Riviera - Page 214
by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince - Travel - 2003 - 384 pages
... France ... Alain Vagh ...
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The Essence of Provence: The Story of L'Occitane

The Essence of Provence: The Story of L'Occitane
by Pierre Magnan - Health & Fitness - 2003 - 144 pages
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Design & Applied Arts Index
Design - 1987
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DesignBiz.com

http://www.designbiz.com/Biz/bizProfile.asp?CompanyID=75176#alain-vagh-c%E9ramique

Listed with DesignBiz.com:

Welcome to Alain Vagh Céramique
We are located in LA FLOTTE, Charente Maritime France.

Call us to today at 05 46 09 54 59

Contact Information
Alain Vagh Céramique
LA FLOTTE, Charente Maritime 17630
http://www.alainvagh.fr/emailles.htm

France
Tel: 05 46 09 54 59
Fax: 05 46 09 54 59

alain.vagh@wanadoo.fr

http://www.alainvagh.fr/vava.htm

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

My email:

from catherinetodd
to alain.vagh@wanadoo.fr,
cc catherinetodd ,
date Dec 4, 2007 1:11 AM
subject Piano covered with ceramic tiles?

Hello!

Do you still have the beautiful grand piano covered in ceramic tiles that I played at an Art / Home & Garden show in the Fall in Paris around 1989 or 1990? It was beautiful and I was given the chance to play during the day and it was so beautiful I remember it still. I was leaving Paris and moving back to the United States where I have been ever since.

Thank you for the memories and I would love to see a photo of it and visit it and play it again one day.

Yours, Catherine Todd


*** Traveling:

"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on a plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home." ~ Carl Burns


Words to live by: "Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." -- Konrad von Gesner

Catherine S. Todd, 3007 Bent Tree Dr. Oxford NC, 27565, USA,
Tel: NC 919-693-0853, U.S. cell 919-605-0727, ctodd1000@gmail.com

Monday, December 3, 2007

Alain VAGH & the Ceramic Piano

La belle histoire d'Alain et Jacotte .......


http://www.alainvagh.fr/histoire.htm

Arrivé à Salernes en Provence en mai 1968, Alain VAGH a vingt ans et une passion pour la céramique et la vie au naturel.
Pour le conforter dans son audace, il y a Jacotte, sa femme. Elle, est du pays. Lui, quoique né à Toulouse, vient de la plaine hongroise par son père, Tim, fils de Maurice VAGH WEINMANN, une drôle de lignée d’artistes peintres.
D’abord l’apprentissage, les tomettes que l’on engobe, sèchent naturellement au soleil, puis le four à bois, avec ses quinze jours et ses quinze nuits de cuisson, et l’émaillage, la recherche des formes, des couleurs, la naissance de toutes les pièces céramiques.
Simultanément, des rencontres : Max Ernst, Tobas et ses copains de l’école de Nice, Fred Sourdive et J. A. Perrier, les sages de la céramique, et aussi des décorateurs, des architectes qui lui ont fait confiance, tel Albert Caviezel, qui lui a permis de réaliser des milliers de mètres carrés à Engelberg en Suisse, de même des chantiers aux Etats-Unis, au Japon, au Canada...
Alain VAGH, riche de tous ces contacts et réalisations, tout en conservant les bases d’une production de terre cuite traditionnelle y adjoint des créations pures «les petits pavés», ces drôles de petits trapèzes qui tournent, grimpent, ondulent et qui forment des soleils qui s’entrecroisent, se mélangent avec bonheur. Il crée aussi des carreaux estampés en relief, cloisonnés, pleins d’humour et de couleurs.
Puis, il y a des clins d’œil, la voiture, le bateau, la vespa, le vélo,... en céramique. Mais aussi incroyablement technique, avec toutes ces pièces spéciales : cornière, talon, corniche, demi rond, quart de rond, sorties tout droit de sa production et qui démontrent par là l’immense créativité que permettent ses céramiques.




Very rough BabelFish translation:

Arrived at Salernes to Provence in May 1968, Alain VAGH was twenty years old with a passion for ceramics and the natural life. To consolidate it in its audacity, there is Jacotte, his wife. She, is country. He, though born in Toulouse, comes from the Hungarian plain by his/her father, Tim, wire of Maurice VAGH WEINMANN, funny of line of painters. Initially the training, the floor tiles that one slip, dry naturally with the sun, then the furnace with wood, with his fifteen days and his fifteen nights of cooking, and enamelling, the research of the forms, of the colors, the birth of all the ceramic parts. At the same time, of the meetings: Max Ernst, Tobas and his/her buddies of the school of Nice, Fred Sourdive and J.A. Perrier, the wise ones of ceramics, and also of the decorators, the architects who trusted him, such Albert Caviezel, which enabled him to carry out thousands of square meters with Engelberg in Switzerland, in the same way building sites in the United States, in Japan, in Canada… Alain VAGH, rich person of all these contacts and achievements, while preserving the bases of a production of traditional terra cotta there assistant of pure creations “the small paving stones”, these funny of small trapezoids which turn, climb, undulate and which forms suns which intersect, mix with happiness. It creates also squares stamped in relief, partitioned, full with humour and colors. Then, there are winks, the car, the boat, the Vespa, the bicycle,… out of ceramics. But also incredibly technical, with all these special parts: angle, heel, cornice, round half, quarter of round, exits very right of its production and which show by there the immense creativity that its ceramics allows.



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Where is the piano? I want to play it still...

Alain VAGH: on the web at last! Where is a photo of the piano? I must find it!
http://www.alainvagh.fr/divaghations.htm

Alain is the "creator" of the ceramic tile covered piano I played in Paris in 1989 or 1990 at the big Home Show every Fall, "just for professionals..." He also covered his cowboy boots with small hexagonal tiles, his Harley Davidson motorcycle, a tractor, a car, and a multitude of other things. Incredible! The grand piano at the demonstration show was, for me, of course the BEST!

I have always wanted to find this man, find this piano, find my way back to France and go back again and play. I have dreamed of this day for almost 20 years. He invited me to go on tour with the piano back then, and I was on my way back to the states for my son's last year in high school. This was one of my very few regrets. If I had accepted his offer, how different my life might now be! I wrote today 12.3.07 and who knows, maybe someone will write me back? I hope so!