léa & nicolas

we are léa behr and nicolas hoang.

in 2016, we founded léa & nicolas with a simple wish: to try to make a living by making something with our hands, together. a couple's work, born of our meeting.

a childhood in alsace, a childhood in vietnam, a top of the class, a dreamer, one deeply rooted, one an immigrant. nothing to bring us together at the start. these differences shaped our life choices: immigrating together to montreal in 2010, choosing the life of artisans and making ceramics.

our ceramics are brutalist in their bareness and naturalist in their materiality.

doing more with less, something precious with little. we have few means, but a lot of perseverance.

everything is made by us in our studio in bedford, quebec. we practise several techniques there: throwing, slab building, coiling, moulding and casting, in the service of exploring forms and textures. each object seeks a balance between what it is and what it does.