![]() I was accepted as a line cook in 1994 in the kitchen of *Wolfgang Puck for two months on a trial basis, and ended up working there about a year and a half. Some also featured in the window of Van Cleef & Arpels for a month or so which was encouraging but that turned out not to be it either. It was here that I made my first steps towards the culinary world. After that I moved back to Los Angeles still not very sure about what next and started to design hats for a few years. A friend of my mother’s had a beautiful store, on Rodeo Drive, where she she sold Narcisso Rodriguez amongst other Designers and my hats ! Then I moved to Brussels for a year where I studied Trompe l’oeil and Decorative painting at the Van der Kelen & Logelain Institute. Later, I spent a year in Paris where I had the intention to work in Haute Couture, but it was not meant to be. When I was 16, I went to Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and graduated with an AA in Fashion Design. After this, I moved to Geneva for a year where I went to L’ecole de Decors de Theatre (scenography). So I dibbled in a lot of different fields, looking for my path. But what kind? A musician? A painter? A fashion designer? A cook? An entrepreneur? A product designer? It was never clear to me what to choose. I always knew I was going to be an artist. So how did you begin your search for who you wanted to be and do? I grew up surrounded by beautiful things but it took time for me to evolve into what I do now. ![]() My father took me to many artist studios, galleries and museums so that has formed my taste and appreciation for art, design, architecture, landscaping, etc. Yes! My mother was an artist, my father loves art and artists and my family (both sides) and ancestors had always had a very strong connection to art in all possible form of expression (today, practically all my cousins and both my brothers are pursuing some sort of creative expression) so that’s always been part of who I am. So for you these influences were powerful. Of course, movies, and growing up amongst creative people, visiting their homes and being exposed to the work of Axel Vervoordt, Jules Wabbes, Jacques Wirtz, Pierre Culot, Marc Corbiau, and my family’s taste all influenced me tremendously! Also, reading many European Graphic Novels kept my imagination intact, and fed it. Randolph Stone (father of Polarity) would say “thoughts influence energy, energy influences matter”. I was a loner, but the intimacy of one’s thoughts are very powerful tools and company. As Dr. What did you think you would do when you were a child? Is it what you dreamt of or far from what you had initially envisaged? Was it your environment, international life, your early education that had the greatest impact?Īs a child, I would reinvent and redesign the world in my head. So we make do with what we have and make it work. The work comes from my own limitations (be they technical, business oriented or financial). After constant growth, I’ve had to take a leap of faith and rented this 8,000 sq ft warehouse to work in, as my home desk was just too small. Working with clay was never part of my “plan”. So where does Humble Ceramics begin? I am sitting with you in a vast warehouse surrounded by ceramic filled shelves in all degrees of readiness. Yes primarily but I also spent time and years going to and fro from Europe when I was a little older. Lippens created Humble Ceramics in 2010 and what you see today is the evolution of an exploration in clay.īrussels but I came to live in Los Angeles, in 1982. Artisan Block Los Angeles (A B.L.A) is a collective of artists, artisans and makers located in one single block in this area of the city. We met in February at her studio, proudly located in South Central Los Angeles. An illuminating discussion with Belgian-born, longtime Los Angeles resident Delphine Lippens, currently a successful ceramicist.
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