History
Arriving from Bohemia, Jean-Baptiste Nowack chose to make his home in Champagne, on the right bank of the Marne Valley in the small village of Vandières, whose name means ‘to give wine’.
The family developed a business specialising in the manufacture and firing of bricks, roof tiles and fountain pipework, which were stamped with the name Nowack and sold throughout the valley.
Later, Jean-Baptiste’s son Pierre-Ferdinand took over the family e...