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    Design and Architecture

    Eat the river

    Frédérick Gautier is a French ceramicist trained in landscape architecture who once had a studio on a boat on the Seine River in Paris.

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    By Frances Anderton • Oct 11, 2016 • 1 min read

    Frédérick Gautier is a French ceramicist trained in landscape architecture who once had a studio on a boat on the Seine River in Paris. But he recently spent time living in Frogtown and has created raw, rough clay teapots, plates, flower pots, inspired by inspired by the Los Angeles River, from engineering details in the concrete channel to the pipes and objects he found there.

    His installation is on display at Please Do Not Enter, a gallery in downtown Los Angeles that last year sponsored the whitewashing of the Bates Motel in Silver Lake. DnA spoke with Frédérick Gautier and Nicolas Libert, co-founder of Please Do Not Enter.

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

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      Frédérick Gautier

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      Nicolas Libert

      Please Do Not Enter

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    The full episode

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    Police academy, smart gun, eat the river
    1. 1:09Police academy gets a makeover
    2. 10:19Smart teenager creates smart gun
    3. 25:28Eat the riverYou’re reading this
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