Leonida & Gheorghe
HISTORY
Color, suns, and colorful tableware caught our eye among the other plates exhibited that day by Leonida and Gheorghe.
We discuss their work, and they show us around their workshop, where Leonida decorates ceramics while listening to the latest updates on her series on Romanian TV.
She uses the same traditional tools for her decorations as all the other potters in the village: a foot-powered wheel and horns for creating the glazed areas, decorated with a feather to create the patterns so typical of Horezu: lines, ripples, intersections—these designs come easily to her, as she has always worked with this tool.
In Leonida and Gheorghe's creations, we find a sense of joy and brightness that truly embody them.
HOREZU
Horezu is a village home to a community of about fifty artisans who create traditional ceramics using methods that date back more than three hundred years. The use of ox horn and a feather to glaze the pieces is an example of this.
In 2012, Horezu pottery was designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
