The potter’s craft is almost as old as time so a traditional chateau or converted stone barn is the perfect setting for your pottery holiday in the glorious countryside of France. Enjoy all modern facilities, including a swimming pool, while staying close to the earth that is the potter’s basic material. Enjoy the satisfaction of moulding wet clay, working shapes, managing the potter’s wheel, firing and then finishing beautiful, hand-made pots, bowls and plates. At the end of your holiday or break, you’ll have mastered a skill both primaeval and bang up-to-date and can take home artistic and useful trophies to be proud of.

French pottery and porcelain

Our holidays offer you the freedom to explore as well as to learn. See examples of rustic French pottery or fine porcelain everywhere from museums to market stalls, fine art galleries to country restaurants. This is a setting that can bring fresh inspiration to your own vision and ideas. Pottery courses in our French properties can be taken as individuals, couples or groups. Make your next French holiday unusual and creative!