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Füreya Koral helped establish modern studio ceramics in Türkiye while creating vessels, sculptures and large architectural panels that made clay part of everyday public space.

Clay given the scale of architecture

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Koral began sustained work in ceramics in the late 1940s, learning in Switzerland and Paris before establishing a studio in Istanbul that became an important meeting and teaching space. She drew on Anatolian ceramic histories without treating tradition as a pattern book, testing how glaze, modular form and abstraction could inhabit modern life. Her panels entered markets, hotels and public buildings, places where art meets people not arriving as an audience. Clay ceased to be only an object in a room; it helped make the room.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Füreya Koral, kaplar ve heykellerin yanı sıra kili gündelik kamusal mekânın parçasına dönüştüren büyük mimari panolar üreterek Türkiye'de modern atölye seramiğinin kurulmasına katkı verdi.
Mimarlık ölçeği verilen kil

Koral 1940'ların sonunda seramikle düzenli çalışmaya başladı; İstanbul'da önemli bir buluşma ve öğrenme alanına dönüşen atölyesini kurmadan önce İsviçre ve Paris'te eğitim gördü. Anadolu seramik tarihinden yararlandı ama geleneği bir desen kitabı gibi kullanmadı; sırın, modüler biçimin ve soyutlamanın modern hayata nasıl yerleşebileceğini araştırdı. Panoları çarşılara, otellere ve kamu binalarına girdi; sanat burada karşısına seyirci olarak çıkmayan insanlarla buluştu. Kil artık yalnızca odadaki nesne değildi; odanın kurulmasına yardım ediyordu.

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