Calades. Les sols de pierres. Islam Jean-Michel OTHONIEL

Jean-Michel OTHONIEL

The majority of these texts are published for the first time

Smithsonian Institution

long before the influence of foreign powers

Calades. Les sols de pierres. Islam Jean-Michel OTHONIELIn Provence, the traditional technique where local rough stone is laid upright, on edge, is called "calade." In Italy, ciottolati, a mixture of black and white pebbles, cover church squares, as in Greece, where they are called chochlakia. In recent years, numerous public and private creations have brought back into the spotlight a skill that this book has chosen to approach from two complementary angles. The first part of the book takes the reader on