Prior to the pandemic, Jacques Monneraud had a long career as a creative director in Paris. Then "I left everything in 2021 and completed a ceramics degree," Monneraud writes. "The urge to craft my own objects had taken over. Since then, I create things, some useful, others less so, but always entirely made by hand on my potter's wheel in my workshop."

Monneraud became obsessed with creating ceramic pieces that look as if they're made of cardboard, and taped together:

The corrugation is painstaking to craft, as well as the "tape:" that's actually a glaze that Monneraud had to experiment with to get it just right.

Monneraud says he chose to emulate cardboard as a comment on its disposability. "I like the idea of ??being able to freeze fragility," he told StirPad. "Then, its apparent simplicity: Three pieces of cardboard + two pieces of tape = a pitcher. It's a mockery of our world of overproduction and overconsumption. We don't throw this cardboard away. If someone hid one of my pieces, it could still be on earth in 3000 years."

See more on Monneraud's Instagram.