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Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art, is an initiative of the city of Paris specialized in design, fashion and fine crafts. It organizes each year the Prizes Savoir-faire en transmission! Their call for applications is opened until October 31^st, 2022.

This award has been supporting by Fondation Rémy Cointreau since 2018! The event is the occasion to talk about the importance of the transmission’s role of fine crafts sector.

Phenomenon of transmission

The transmission is meaningful and settled to the notion of time. It induces the past, the present, and the future through tradition, evolution, and innovation. This is how Fondation Rémy Cointreau works for fine crafts. The objective is about the durability of this sector.

The essential value of Fondation Rémy Cointreau: transmission

Fondation Rémy Cointreau has been supporting craftsmen since 2017. Their common point is the transmission. Among its laureates, Laurel Parker, designer and bookbinder, insists in this significant value as a way to learn a traditional know-how. Louis Monier is close to this notion of transmission because, as a seat carpenter, he executes his know-how with a tool that is not in the market anymore. This tool is called the wabstringue. The traditional tools are essential to learn a know-how.

Thereby, transmission looks like a “theft”: the apprentice comes in the workshop and learn everything his master knows. That is the opinion of Bernard Mauffret, designer, and cabinet maker. William Amor also teaches this way. As a forsaken materials ennobler, he has to transmit his brand-new know-how and his engagement for the planet through upcycling, if he wants it to last.

Prizes Savoir-faire en transmission

Fondation Rémy Cointreau is attached to the engagement of each of its laureates for transmission values. The Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art and its Prizes Savoir-faire en transmission have the objective to make the fine crafts durable.

Those prizes are dedicated to students and to adults changing careers. They help them to acquire some experience in a workshop for one year. Laurel Parker, Louis Monier, Bernard Mauffret and William Amor have welcomed apprentices with Prizes Savoir-faire en transmission.

Fondation Rémy Cointreau is supporting those prizes and Caroline Martin-Rilhac, delegate general of the Foundation is a member of the jury: “Tradition is the base of innovation. It becomes essential when it is given to future generations”.

The Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art has awarded the laureats 2022 of the Prix Savoir-faire en transmission the 10^th of March 2022. Fondation Rémy Cointreau has been supporting this prize for 4 years. Caroline Martin-Rilhac was a member of the jury and was there for the event.

Prix Savoir-faire en transmission

The Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art, or BDMMA, executes the approach of the city of Paris in favor of fine crafts. This ecosystem guides the fine crafts professionals and proposes them a network. Three prizes are given each year : Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris, Prix Savoir-faire en transmission, and the label Fabriqué Paris.

This year, the Prix Savoir-faire en transmission took place at Hôtel de Ville of Paris. They have reunited all the laureats in the presence of Olivia Polski, assistant of the mayor of Paris in charge of business, crafts, freelance, fine crafts and fashion.

The objective of the prize is about encouraging the fine crafts companies and training apprentices for one year. Those apprentices are at the heart of the learning process of their know-how and of the company organisation. Those prizes insure the transmission and the durability of the fine crafts trades.

The laureats 2022

Among the laureats of the 2022 edition, Clémence has joined the Atelier Monier thanks to the Prix Savoir-faire en transmission. Louis Monier has been supporting by Fondation Rémy Cointreau since 2021. He is specialised in seat carpentry, and he will teach this know-how to Clemence through seat conception and realisation. This know-how is less and less taught. Thanks to this training, the durability of this fine crafts profession will be assured.

A lot of laureats has received the Prix Savoir-faire en transmission in 2021 and some of the apprentices has joined the workshop of Fondation Rémy Cointreau’s laureates: Nina Fradet has joined the workshop of Bernard Mauffret, Agathe Ruelland Rémy has joined the workshop of Laurel Parker and Jenna Broult the workshop of William Amor.

The Fondation Rémy Cointreau is proud to support the transmission value with this prize !

For the 12th edition of SMEs RMC Trophies, Steven Leprizé, cabinetmaker and researcher, is the national laureate of the category “PME artisanale”, in English, the Trophy of small and medium sized company specialized in arts and crafts.

The SMEs RMC Trophies

The competition of SMEs RMC Trophies rewards the small and medium sized companies in France, whom contribute to the dynamism of French economy. In the hard sanitary context, the objective is about guiding and supporting the laureates in their professional approaches in order to valorise the French excellence.

For its 12^th edition, the SMEs RMC Trophies are classified under inventiveness and innovation. They counted 900 applications and rewarded 49 regional laureates (ceremonies from November 19^th to November 30^th, 2021) and 7 national laureates (awards ceremony on December 16^th, 2021).

The last December 2^nd, the examinations board has been reunited in order to define the national laureates classified in seven categories: Arts and Crafts, Creativity, Made in France, Young Talent, Sustainability, Transformation, and a special prize, the Small and Medium Sized company of the year.

The Trophy of small and medium sized company specialized in arts and crafts

This category rewards the French arts and crafts and the French know-how which is handed down to generations and encourages research and innovation. The french arts and crafts sector represents 1,3 million of companies of which 60% are small family companies, and 3 million of professionals. This sector generates 300 billion of euros or 1/5 of the French economy.

This trophy represents the ancestral know-how led by research and technology. It also represents the gesture and the transmission values for the durability of the French know-how.

ARCA – workshop of research and creation for furniture, is the winner of the national trophy. It is represented by Steven Leprizé, cabinetmaker and researcher, whom leads this workshop and orients it to wood researches with innovative and modern techniques.

Well done to him !

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Since their creation in 1993, the Grands Prix de la Création recognize every year exceptional creators in the fields of fine crafts, design and fashion.

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 the 3rd consecutive year, Caroline Martin-Rilhac, General Delegate of the Fondation Rémy Cointreau, was a member of the jury and of the Expert Committee for the category, under the Chair of Mathias Kiss.

Due to COVID regulations, the laureates were announced and celebrated during an entirely digital event. Without further ado, let’s unveil their names and savoir-faire.

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The Grand Prix 2020 is attributed to Nicolas Pinon!

Nicolas Pinon is a lacquerer, specialized in plant-based lacquer and settled in the11e arrondissement of Paris. He has a very strong attachment to Japan, home country to the craft he is so passionate about and where he was able to learn from a master lacquerer, keeper of an ancestral savoir-faire. Nicolas focuses on every facet of vegetal varnish, of kintsugi and brings a contemporary and european twist to these eastern and ancestral practices.

The Prix Talent Emergent goes to Laura Cambon!

Laura Cambon has a unique outlook on glass, so is her craft. Trained at the Arts Déco, she creates glass pieces for the exclusive purpose of  interior design and space layout by combining traditional savoir-faire and technical innovation. She also leads research and experimentation on her raw material.

Congratulations to them both!

In 2019, the title of “Maître d’Art” (Master of Art), created by the French Ministry of Culture, celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Since 1994, 141 Maîtres d’Art representing more than 100 different crafts have been honoured with this title in recognition for their unique savoir‐faire in rare trades. The title was inspired by Japan’s “Living National Treasures”, and likewise the Maîtres d’Art pass on their exceptional craftsmanship.

“The title of Maître d’Art has become a vehicle for transmission, which helps to safeguard and promote the living heritage and local development. It ensures the preservation of almost a hundred trades that embody our country’s heritage and creativity, and aims to pass on crafts, and a love for them, to the next generation.”

Franck Riester, French Minister of Culture

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Association des Maîtres d’Art organised an exhibition at the Hôtel de l’Industrie in Paris, from 13 to 15 December 2019, showcasing the excellence of French craftsmanship and its tradition of passing on savoir‐faire.

The Fondation Rémy Cointreau was invited to the launch of this fantastic event both as a partner and sponsor of the Association des Maîtres d’Art et de leurs Élèves (AMAE). The foundation supports craftspeople and their students in helping to preserve and promote fine crafts.

Dominique Hériard‐Dubreuil, Chair of the Foundation, accompanied by Board members Agnès Lamoureux, David Caméo, Stanislas de Quercize and Hervé Dumesny, as well as by Executive Director Caroline Martin‐Rilhac, were all delighted to attend.

39 Maîtres d’Arts showcased their savoir‐faire through their exhibited works, demonstrated their expertise, and took part in meetings, conferences and concerts centred on the worlds of fashion, jewellery, music and interior design.

For this event, the Maîtres d’Art invited 10 studios from the Meisterrat, in Berlin, including the Meissen Royal Manufactory, and a “Living National Treasure” from Japan, namely Master Kunihiko Moriguchi.

Here are a few photos of this event.

From left to right, Kunihiko Moriguchi, Living National Treasure from Japan, Masato Kitera, Japanese Ambassador to France, Marcelle Guillet‐Lubrano, Honorary Chair of the AMAE, Dominique Hériard‐Dubreuil, Chair of the Fondation Rémy Cointreau, Yves Benoit, Chairman of the AMAE.

Gabrielle Mass, Former First Deputy to the Mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac, responsible for Industry, Fashion, Design and Artistic Careers (photo on the left). From left to right Didier Trutt, Chairman of Imprimerie Nationale, Dominique Hériard‐Dubreuil, Chair of the Rémy Cointreau Foundation, and Maître d’Art Jacques Loire (photo on the right).

Works created by Maître d’Art Anne Hoguet, fan maker, and Maître d’Art Erhard Stiefel, mask maker.

Sandrine Raffin’s passion for her work comes from her father. “Twenty years ago, if you were not born into a family of stringed instrument or bow makers, this type of job was completely off-limits to you.” At the age of 15, Sandrine enrolled in the École Nationale de Lutherie de Mirecourt. At 20, she joined a family-owned bow workshop on rue de Rome in Paris.

We invite you to discover her work and passion in this video :

The art cutler Pascal Renoux, was recognized by his peers Meilleur Ouvrier de France in the category “hunting cutlery” for the manufacture of two knives (a hunting, fishing) and a dagger, May 13 2019. The Medal of the Best Worker of France and the blue collar, white, red were given to him. He was also honored during the general assembly of the Campus trades Barbezieux Friday, May 31, 2019.

In thanking this distinction from the Apprenticeship Training Center (CFA), Pascal Renoux explained that “it was an exciting, hard and difficult job. I received the unwavering support of the Chamber of Crafts which set me a custom schedule, especially for me! ”

Learn more about Pascal Renoux

This podcast interview between FashionNetwork.com’s Godfrey Deeney and Stanislas de Quercize, former president of Richemont France and current Fondation Rémy Cointreau Director, is the first guest interview in a fashion-, beauty-, and luxury-driven podcast series hosted by Luxurynsight x FashionNetwork.

This exceptional interview illustrates the values and globalization of the luxury world, in the framework of Stanislas de Quercize’s professional experience. Nothing left to do but listen!

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In November 2018, Pascal Renoux, cutlery artisan from Cognac, France, received the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Finest Workman of France) accolade from his peers, a grand recognition for his 20-year passion.

Pascal’s perfect mastery of his art is one of the reasons for his nomination to the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF) title in the highest category: hunter’s cutlery. This category requires all techniques necessary to craft multi-use knives.

His masterpieces were presented October 22, 2018 in Thiers, France: two knives (one hunting knife, one fishing knife), plus a dagger.

Learn more.