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Sèvres

Sèvres (sev'ru) [key], town (1990 pop. 22,057), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France, on the Seine River; a residential suburb SW of Paris. The famous Sèvres ware porcelain is made in the town, which has a ceramics museum founded by Alexandre Brongniart and a ceramics school. Explosives, surgical supplies, and beer are also produced. Sèvres is the headquarters of the International Center for Pedagogic Studies.

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Art nouveau at Sevres & the craftsman tradition in America: in the early 1900s, American writers and designers took a close interest in the remarkable art-nouveau designs that were being produced at Sevres. Gabriel P. Weisberg explores the impact of the firm's methods and achievements on American crafts.(Essay) (Apollo)

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Charles Nicolas Dodin, miniature painter at Vincennes-Sevres. (The Magazine Antiques)

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Creten's creatures: known for his unsettling semi organic forms, Johan Creten recently exhibited new sculptures created during a three-year residency in Sevres.(MATERIALS) (Art in America)

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Spain--CTIF Group, Sevres, France, INASMET-Tecnalia, San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, and Sefatec S.L., Irun, Basque Country, Spain, established Sefatec Engineering S.L.(Around the World--Newscast) (Modern Casting)

Don't drop the Sevres: in the January 1993 issue, Jeremy Howard interviewed Sir Francis Watson, a former director of the Wallace Collection and one of Britain's foremost scholars of the French decorative arts.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES) (Apollo)

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