Le Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art, previously called Ateliers de la Ville de Paris, is a part of Paris’s projects in favor of artistic professions. It guides, enhances and rewards the professionals of the art circle and brings them together in order to create a national and international ecosystem.
Les Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris are given by Le Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art. Those prizes honor exceptional creators in the fields of fine crafts, fashion and design.
The Fondation Rémy Cointreau supports the Fine Crafts category of the Grands Prix, awarding each year an emerging talent and a confirmed professional talent. For this category Caroline Martin-Rilhac, General Delegate of the Fondation Rémy Cointreau, was a member of the Expert Committee and of the jury, under the Chair of Laura Gonzales, interior designer.
Lily Alcaraz and Lea Berlier met during their studies. They shared the same passion : weaving. This technique brings a great liberty of creation and realisation. It allows them to invent patterns or textures and to combine different materials with textil. Lily and Lea have an innovative and a traditional approach as they design their projets with digital and crafts devices. In their workshop, they create made-to-measure artworks for luxury houses such as Hermès, the Studio Laubadère, the Great Design Gallery or the Manufacture Vacheron Constantin.
Lucie Touré has always been passionated by crafts and creation. Her passion and her great curiosity allowed her to experiment different techniques and materials of creation although she has dedicated her speciality to the paper. With her entrepreneurship spirit she created her worskshop in 2018. Since then, she has realised creations with her team, dedicated to the luxury sector.
The Prix Savoir-faire en transmission (ex – Prix de perfectionnement aux métiers d’art), are awarded each year by the City of Paris. They are endowed with 10,000 euros to allow the laureates to perfect their training by being welcomed with an internship in an artisan’s workshop, full time, for one year. The winners are selected based on the consistency of their careers, their motivation and the quality of their work, without any specific diploma condition. The twelve-month internship starts in January or April , depending on the choice of the successful candidate. Twenty-two prizes will be awarded in 2021.
For this 2021 edition, the Fondation Rémy Cointreau has joined forces with the City of Paris to create four new Prix Savoir-faire en transmission (ex – Prix de perfectionnement aux métiers d’art).
With its heritage and its roots in New Aquitaine, the Foundation offers among its four prizes the opportunity for Parisians, both young adults and those who have changed career paths, to improve their skills in an artisan’s workshop from Nouvelle Aquitaine. Or conversely to those from Nouvelle Aquitaine, to improve their skills with a Parisian art artisan.
After having worked for several houses, Pierre Salagnac has setting up his own business in Bourville in Normandy. For the opening of his studio, the journalist Sylvie Adiguard met him.
This is at the back of his garden, in an large space that the art bronzer presents his latest production: the Elan table, made of bronze for the base, in association with the researcher cabinetmaker Steven Leprizé who worked on the top. “The aim of this piece was to contrast a worked, polished and fluid bronze with a raw and natural wood”. Pierre wishes to transform his favorite material into a savoir-faire that transports us.
Described as a “craftsman 2.0” by Sylvie Adiguard, the art bronzer represents this new generation of accessible craftsmen, active on the networks through his 14,800 followers on Instagram and his co-creation of The Craft Project podcast with Raphaëlle Le Baud.
The Fondation Rémy Cointreau helps Pierre in the acquisition of equipment for his new space, in order to take over his business and train young people.
In Paris, the 8th arrondissement is known as the historical music area since more than one century. This is at the 62 rue de Rome that the Maison Talents & Violon’celles is opening its doors.
The Maison Talents & Violon’celles is a meeting place around the instruments of the quartet for professionals, sponsors, partners of the association, professors and young talents. Conceived as a coworking space, it contains a welcome area, an instrument and bow makers space, a multifunctional room and the headquarters of the association. For the first time, instrument makers, bow makers, musicians of any ages have a house that gather them and allows them to meet people who support them.
The Fondation Rémy Cointreau wants to anchor in a true proximity with the exceptional craftsman that it supports, with a pragmatic and concrete help. The Fondation and the Association have many values in common: defence of the french instrument making school heritage, the valorisation and the safeguard of arts and crafts, the transmission of a unique savoir-faire.
For Dominique Hériard Dubreuil, President of the Fondation Rémy Cointreau, “our values are linked to the need of the transmission of savoir-faire for that basic commitment, often matched with passion and all the discipline that it represents”.
That is why the Fondation chooses to support the realisation of the instruments and bow-making workshop, to welcome young musicians in residence during a few months around a promising project. It participates also, through Caroline Martin-Rilhac its General Delegate, to the commission that selects the craftsmen projects.
Talents & Violon’celles celebrated its 10th birthday last year. Today, the association loans about sixty instruments of a string quartet and develops projects in harmony with the instrument loans. The creation of this Maison Talents & Violon’celles is the testimony of a long history ahead.
To find out more about the Maison Talents & Violon’celles, discover the video made for the opening :
The Grands Prix de la Création (Grand Prizes of Creation) are mobilized in an ambitious policy of the city of Paris in favour of design, fashion and artcrafts.
They highlight and support these talents which participate to the attractivity of Paris.
Among sponsors, the Fondation Rémy Cointreau gives visibility, help and financial support. Laureats each receive a donation of 18 000€, the support of the Ateliers de Paris and his partnerships although as the recognition of professionals taking part of the jury.
This year, registration is open from today until April 30th, midnight.
This competition is open to professionals and companies, designers and craftsmen who have been practicing for at least one year since the beginning of the registration.
The selection criteria are creativity, savoir-faire and quality, the development strategy for the company, and its commitment to transmission or innovation.
A Zoom meeting, dedicated to the Grand Prizes of Creation, will take place on March 19th, at 2.30 pm as part of the Ateliers de Paris open days.
Enjoy this moment to know more about it and to ask your questions.
The lockdown allowed Marie-Anne Thieffry to understand the need to relay her craft in another channel than exhibitions.
Projects are not lacking. Without exhibitions, Marie-Anne goes on responding to requests and sending her work. The craftswoman wishes to exchange and share her techniques at the maximum. Therefore, she opened this year her studio for interns to learn the carton lace savoir-faire.
This is on her new website that she puts her online shop and the possibility to register for a practical training : www.marieannethieffry.com
To Marie-Anne, this picture is the best representation of what we are living: « Gardians, made with beechwood and cardboard, were the first lockdown realisation. I probably needed protection. »
Watching with the eyes is great. Touching with the hands is better. Marie-Anne Thieffry is preparing the Salon Révélations in June 2021, expecting it will take place.
William Amor, forsaken materials ennobler, transforms plastic bags into small flowers or cigarettes butts into mimosa.
Everything starts with a drawing that comes off a creative idea. After tests, research and prototypes, the decor design is created. His biggest projects can last 2,000 hours and mobilize 14 people over a period of one month.
Discover in video his poetic savoir-faire in an interview with the French TV channel France 3 :
Caroline Vossen chose to exhibit the theme From the Tulip to the Crypto Marguerite at the Avant Galerie to create a dialogue between a dozen artists in which crypto art is displayed in the foreground. She was interested in the Tulipomania phenomenon as it was the first notional bubble during the 17th Century.
Mona Oren exposes her Wax Tulip Mania between small interactive screens and a flowery drawing by Botero.
She launched her project in her Parisian studio last June and it has become her first commercial subject.
Over the months, her delicate wax tulip began to take shape. She continued to improve the quality of the material; allowing for the flexibility of its stem and petals to become unbreakable. White, black, and speckled each flower can be manipulated in many ways.
Mona occasionally works with a few assistants to transmits this singular savoir-faire, « As soon as a person enters the intimacy of the studio, they learns the techniques step-by-step, a few months are not enough to master this art form » explains the sculptor who has been practicing the technique of art via wax for twenty years.
At the Avant Galerie, Mona would like her tulips to be accessible to as many people as possible. She created her own distribution platform, a market without intermediaries, through the image of digital art. The wax tulips are then photographed and geolocated by customers. This performance is recorded on her site where the collective work takes shape as a constellation of interconnected points.
Her objective? To be able to make a field of 10,000 tulips by weaving floral links in these greyish and confined times.
In 2021, Laurel Parker welcomes a young laureate, winner of « the Prix de perfectionnement aux métiers d’arts, Savoir-Faire en Transmission ».
In 2020, the Rémy Cointreau Foundation, whose mission is to promote and support the transmission of savoir-faire and excellence, is joining the City of Paris to create three prizes for advanced development in the arts.
Building on its heritage and relationship with Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Rémy Cointreau Foundation offers Parisians (both young adults or adults undergoing a career transition) the opportunity to perfect their skills in the studio of a Nouvelle Aquitaine craftsman. Or, conversely to young adults or adults undergoing career transition in Nouvelle Aquitaine, to perfect their skills with a Parisian craftsman.
We look forward to counting among them a new laureate in the handcrafted production of artist’s books, boxes and cases in the “Laurel Parker Book” studio.
Agathe Ruelland Rémy joined the team as a graphic designer and Studio Apprentice.
The Prix de perfectionnement aux métiers d’art, savoir-faire en transmission, are awarded each year by the City of Paris. They are endowed with 10,000 euros to allow the laureates to perfect their training by being welcomed with an internship in an artisan’s workshop, full time, for one year. The winners are selected based on the consistency of their careers, their motivation and the quality of their work, without any specific diploma condition.
For this 2020 edition, the Fondation Rémy Cointreau, as the sole patron of the Prix de perfectionnement aux métiers d’art has joined forces with the City of Paris to create five new trade art improvement prizes.
With its heritage and its roots in New Aquitaine, the Foundation offers among its five prizes the opportunity for Parisians, both young adults and those who have changed career paths, to improve their skills in an artisan’s workshop from Nouvelle Aquitaine. Or conversely to those from Nouvelle Aquitaine, to improve their skills with a Parisian art artisan. This is the case for two of the twelve laureates, who bear the special mention Fondation Rémy Cointreau :
Alicia Bertrand (Bordeaux) in the Atelier Flory Brisset (Pré-Saint-Gervais) in embroidery, Special mention Fondation Rémy Cointreau
Aglaë Miguel (Paris) in the Pinton Manufacture (Felletin, Nouvelle Aquitaine) in the manufacture of tufted rugs, Special mention Fondation Rémy Cointreau
“The year 2020 is an additional opportunity to get to prepare a future art artisan. To be noted that 80% of the artisans who participated to this program were hired after.”
Caroline Martin-Rilhac, General Delegate of the Fondation Rémy Cointreau, jury member for the 2020 edition.
