[1] In the 1890s, Léonard Bernardaud (1856-1923) collaborated with Rémi Delinières who ran a porcelain factory in Limoges, a company operating since 1863[2] on a street which is now Avenue Albert-Thomas.

In 1967, the company called on the master of industrial design Raymond Loewy to create the first contemporary service in Limoges porcelain.

In 1970, Bernardaud bought the Vignaud factory, located on rue du Chinchauvaud, in Limoges; this acquisition made it possible to increase the production of porcelain considerably.

In 1994, he was appointed by the company's board of directors to take over as head of the firm, of his father who died in a helicopter accident in Vietnam in March 1994.

[6] In the 1990s, Bernardaud went international, while asserting its roots: the Limoges factory was rehabilitated and became a center of culture and reception open to the public and artists.