We gather under the term Pottery of Accolay the production of a community of potters settled in the village of Accolay, in the department of Yonne. This production center was created by four former students of Alexandre Kostanda.
Active from 1945 to 1989, their pottery is distinguished by great technical inventiveness and an extremely abundant production. The community of potters exploited the proximity of the national 6 by investing service stations to make them permanent exhibition sites on the circuit of migration of Parisian tourists. Their exhibition buildings, inspired by the constructions of the Le Mans 24-hour circuit, became the obligatory stopover for holidaymakers in transit.
This form of marketing continued at the entrance to Vermenton until the factories closed in 1983. However, the creation of the Lyon motorway had diverted the flow of tourists for several years.
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