Caille – handmade ceramic quail in several sizes and colours

Heidi Caillard was born in 1932 in Basel, Switzerland. From 1949 to 1954 she studied fine arts at the Basel School of Arts and Crafts, and in 1962 she continued at the Lausanne School of Ceramics.

In 1968, she settled in Blauzac, a small village near Uzès, where she opened a ceramics workshop and showroom in the middle of the village. One of her customers, Daniel Caillard – a soldier stationed at the Garon air base near Nîmes – later became her husband.

In 1971, their first child, Adrien, was born. That same year, the couple bought a completely dilapidated farmhouse in Lussan – a house that had once belonged to the ancestors of the writer André Gide. They spent ten years renovating it, and already in 1974, in the middle of the work, they moved both the workshop and the shop there.

 

In 1994, Adrien Caillard took over the business – initially to relieve Heidi, but driven by his passion for the craft, he gradually became fully involved. He quickly learned everything there was to learn and acquired the necessary expertise. He optimized the packaging and structured the entire production process, without ever compromising the manual techniques that underlie each individual piece. The improvements opened the door to professional customers, and with participation in the international home furnishings fair in Paris – Maison et Objet – and numerous press reviews, the small workshop gradually achieved international recognition.

In 2000, an additional workshop was built in the same architectural style as the original mas. An impressive wooden structure designed by Daniel Sechet (atbc.fr) added 200 square meters of free, column-free workspace.

Today, a dedicated team maintains the quality and spirit that Heidi founded. Heidi herself, despite her age, still occasionally draws new pieces.

In 2011, Adrien launched a new chapter: Adrien's Caravan – a distillation of the expertise and love for the craft he has built up over decades.

His most famous creation is undoubtedly the guinea fowl – to many today it is simply the “Lussan guinea fowl”. The bird took shape in Heidi’s imagination already during her school days, and the living bird was already in the garden. The idea of a stylized, expressive sculpture was naturally on her mind from the beginning – but the path to the final form required long days of sketching, building and breaking down, over and over again, until the proportions were exactly right.

Inspiration: Les Céramiques de Lussan — ceramics with roots in a southern French village

Relevant products and collections

• Les Céramiques de Lussan
• Dorte Visby Ceramics

Inspiration: Les Céramiques de Lussan — ceramics with roots in a southern French village

Relevant products and collections

• Les Céramiques de Lussan
• Dorte Visby Ceramics
• Bowls

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You pay the cost of the return shipment yourself, unless it is a complaint. Danish customers can order a return label via Shipmondo. Once we have received the item, we refund the full purchase price.

Return address: Rune-Jakobsen Design ApS, Att.: Kari Rune-Jakobsen, Tiendemarken 14 A, Gudum, 9280 Storvorde, Denmark.

Complaints: Under the Sale of Goods Act you have a 2-year right of complaint for manufacturing and material defects. For a justified complaint we cover the cost of the return shipment.

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Real products – honestly explained

For us, craftsmanship, materials and aesthetics come first. Our images should give you an accurate impression of what you are buying. That is why you also deserve an honest explanation of how we work with product photos.

Where do the images come from?

• Our own photos: We photograph the products from Rune-Jakobsen Woodworks ourselves. They are real, handmade products from our workshop. We also photograph part of the rest of our range ourselves.
• Photos from the makers: For some of the brands we carry, we use the manufacturer's own product images combined with our own photos.
• Customer photos: Now and then, customers send us photos and give us permission to use them. We show them exactly as we received them.

Where do we use AI?

Some of our images have been edited with AI tools. We do this to:

• show the product in a home or kitchen, so you can see it in context
• clean up the background, adjust the lighting and remove dust or distracting reflections

We do not use AI to change a product's shape, size, proportions, material or colour, and we never show AI-generated products that do not exist. Every image is based on a photo of the real product. We compare every AI-edited image with the physical product before it goes live in our shop.

Our images may inspire you – but they must never promise more than the product can deliver.

Images when choosing a variant

Many of our products come in a wide range of sizes and variants, and we do not yet have images of all of them. The image shown for your selection therefore primarily shows the wood species. It does not necessarily show the exact size or design variant.

Every piece is unique

Many of our products are handmade one-of-a-kind pieces, and natural materials such as wood, ceramics and glass vary from piece to piece. That is why the product you receive will never be completely identical to the one in the picture. This is exactly what sets craftsmanship apart from mass production.

Not sure? We're happy to help.

If you have questions about design, size, wood species or special requests, write to us at info@rune-jakobsen.dk. We will gladly advise you before you order.