Chateau de Brissac

The tallest castle in France, set above the vineyards of the Anjou. Seven stories of pale tuffeau under a dark slate roof, on the right bank of the Aubance about fifteen kilometres south of Angers. The Cossé-Brissac family has held the place for more than five hundred years and still lives on the upper floors. The asymmetric façade — work that stopped in the 1620s when the funds ran out — gives the building a half-finished silhouette that the rest of the Loire does not have. Around it, the vines produce a sweet white wine the estate still bottles.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.