The colorful cult of le Creuset

Do not ask us how or why, but sooner or later there comes a point in adult life in which, owning a Le Creuset becomes a priority. Once you see in your kitchen that colorful pot or skillet with which you dreamed so long, in time it becomes an obsession to gather all the pieces to complete a collection that would not be complete without the new Flame Dorée . Founded in 1925 to the northeast of France, Le Creuset turns 100 years in 2025.

April Hershberger is not the only collector of Le Creuset Cookware who owns so many pieces that she cannot count them. But she may be the only one who built an entire house around one: the nine-quarter oval oven that she received as a gift for her wedding in 2006. She created an obsession. She had her kitchen stove, the central piece of her house in a restored barn in southeastern Pennsylvania, made as she matched her collection of cherry-red po…