There are many reasons why a ceramic production, important in the past, over the centuries falls into oblivion and is able to happen until the current inhabitants of a historic pottery center vital to the economy from the in ancient times, lose the memory of those of their forebears ceramics. Read More…
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Ventilated façades are a constructive solution that every day is more widespread due to its characteristics of high aesthetic quality and unquestionable advantages of thermal and acoustic insulation, among others. Read More…
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The beginnings of a manufacturing ceramic fall towards the end of the Neolithic period. Its development s’accuse from the Bronze Age. It is confirmed by the many discoveries made in the ancient cities lake (lakes of Savoy, Switzerland, Italy and Germany), in cemeteries along the Rhine as in burial mounds in southern England and in flush graves in the region of the Marne. Read More…
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In the early nineteenth century, Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), director of the manufacture de Sevres, mineralogiste and botanist, considered the father of paleobotany and the real founder of modern ceramics, gave a classification of ceramic products. Admitted by all historians of ceramics, it recognizes two broad categories according to the nature of the baked dough, as it is tender (porous) or hard (waterproof). Read More…
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