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Sainte-Catherine Church
$22.00
The largest timber church in France, built by Honfleur's naval carpenters in the second half of the 15th century, when stone was scarce and shipwrights had no work. They worked the way they knew, raising twin naves under oak vaults that hang like upturned hulls. The bell tower stands apart across the square, set away from the church to spare it the weight and the lightning. Eugène Boudin, who was born in this town, painted the bell tower many times. The wood has held since the 1460s.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.