Seeds

  This shop window surrounded by colourful mosaïc used to be a retailer for VILMORIN, a brand for seeds for gardeners.It is located in Corbigny.

Favret and Moreau

   The War Memorial of the Great War was built in Lamotte-Beuvron  (home of the Tatin sisters who created the wold Famous Tarte Tatin)  The style of this in the early 1920s  building that refers to both  classicism in its composition and  "art deco"  style in lettering and drawing.
   It was designed by. Moreau, architect, Pietro  Favret, from Nevers made the mosaïcs : a winged victory wearing a crown of laurel leaves, and panels displays the names of those of the villagers who were killed during  WW1.

Nantes

    Daniel Enocq spend 10 years of its life in recording short Youtube videos  displaying mosaïcs  on old shops   in western France.

 He also took  hundred of pictures. Here are some of them, in Nantes. Butcher, fish shop, delicatessen...all you need is here..with works of Odorico, Zannieri... and others.
Respect...

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Briare

 

Look at these small coloured cubes.

  There are just plenty of them on the fronts of old stores in Nevers city, as well as in the whole ccountry.. .
Now, please take a double decimeter and measure them ..... They are 2.5cm by 2.5cm ? (or 1 inch x 1 inch ...) ....These are certainly tesserae made of Briare enamel . With  their standard size ( they are all also usually 2.3 mm deep)  they were mass-produced until mid- twentieth century to decorate the stores at a reasonable cost ( dairies , butchers, fish markets were the main users ...). The secret of their low cost (related to one would name today " perceived quality") is due to something special (in addition to being produced in large volumes ) : they are made based on " simple" colored glass paste to which was added .... goat milk .
  This invention by the Bapterosses brothers ; including Jean Felix , owner of the factory Enamels of Briare

( And incidentally great-grandfather of Bernadette Chirac, wife of former french president Jacques Chirac, who as a child would often spend his holidays in the area.)