Jacques Ruelland (French 1933-2008) graduated from the Ecole nationale sup of Beaux-Arts in Paris in the late 1940s. Danièle (Dani Dupin) Ruelland (French 1933-2010) studied sculpture at the Grange School of Sculpture. In 1951, he and his wife and creative partner Danièle (Dani Dupin) Ruelland visited Vallauris solidifying their love and desire for all things ceramics. With humble beginnings, they established themselves in Versailles. Later they moved to a workshop in rue de Buci in Paris. They practiced their new craft experimenting with terra cotta, later porcelain, while taking in influences that surround them like the theater, dance, music, drawing, and painting. Dani drew and sculpted; Jacques modeled and glazed. From the 1950s into the late 1970s these collaborative artists manifested their own art of the new into creative amorphic forms. Responsible for a key moment in design and decorative art history, these containers, pitchers, bowls, goblets, lamps, and vases were imagined and manufactured into vivid colors and sleek designs to magnify themselves in any home or setting. Their practice moved in 1970 to two locations one in Les Angles where the couple and their family settled, and the other in Mont-Ventoux in the South of France.