Table, Couales

In the Boisbelle Garden, fresh out of the kiln, the Couales, sandstone crows shaped by four hands, halfway between the tradition of finials, an architectural element that adorns the roofs of the Berry region, and zoomorphic sculptures, have gradually invaded Hervé Rousseau’s table, seven railway sleepers resting on a series of four ‘elephant foot’ pots.

It is this fortuitous installation, taken directly from the surroundings of the Boisbelle workshop, that Nicolas Hérisson chose to display in the garden of the Piacé-le-Radieux mill. The domestic scene is re-enacted there, in a setting similar to the one in which it first appeared, during La Quinzaine Radieuse.