Profile

Trained in interior architecture, Sophie Vaidie has built a rich professional career working at architecture and design firms in France and abroad. After starting her career at the Olivier Gibault Architecture Studio, she collaborated with renowned studios and firms such as Marc Hertrich Studio, Jacques Garcia, NKB Architecture in Hanoi, Bellat & Associés Architectes, Dépiepape Design, Archimage, and Charles Zana Architecture. This experience has enabled her to develop a precise understanding of volumes, spaces, and design constraints.

In 2011–2012, she decided to put her career on hold to embark on a year-long trip to China and Korea, devoted entirely to learning ceramic techniques. This immersive experience marked a turning point in her career and began her transition to ceramics.

Since then, Sophie Vaidie has developed a practice centered on the pursuit of formal balance and precise proportions. Her work explores the relationships between curves and lines, as well as the dialogue between form and the space it creates. Each piece is part of a reflection on the harmony of volumes and the precision of detail, which are fundamental elements of her visual language.

More recently, she has incorporated a process of cutting and reassembling into her practice. By fragmenting and then recomposing her forms, she opens up a range of variations that offers new ways of interpreting her works and enriches her exploration of structure and the transformation of materials.

Sophie Vaidie creates pieces ranging from bowls to small furniture and lighting fixtures. She works primarily with stoneware, using coil-building or pinching techniques. Her creations are fired in an electric kiln, though she regularly incorporates wood-firing as well. Some pieces are left in their raw clay state, while others are glazed using glazes she has developed herself or commercially available formulations, contributing to the diversity of textures and finishes.