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Visits at specific dates Arts and crafts
This shop and workshop specializes in the restoration of antique dolls, automatons, musical boxes, singing birds and bears. You may also find a selection of new articles, including home-made creations. The visit will be focused on the restoration of antique dolls.
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Balcaen specializes in the reproduction of up-market French style furniture. You are invited to visit the finishing workshops, where the final patinas and golden leaf are applied.
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Humanist, lecturer passionate with Berber culture, Ben Azri was inspired from the antique Tifinagh alphabet to create his new collection of silver jewels. He brings you into a world of symbols, history and generosity.
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After being a designer, Claire trained in jewel designing and then opened her own workshop. Her creations combine pure lines and are nature –inspired, as in her collection "wild grasses". She will talk all about and explain her inspiration and techniques.
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Discover the art of engraving precious and semi-precious stones, as well as other rare materials, by the Master of Art Claude Delhief. The workshop produces silversmith and ornamental pieces, which are engraved in intaglio, cameo and round. Classes in glyptic, drawing and sculpture are offered for amateurs and professionals.
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Website: www.glyptique.com
The Keskinidès have been working as furriers for 3 generations. Frédéric, who was distinguished as one of the best in France “Meilleur Ouvrier de France” has created items for the greatest fashion houses. Today, he produces items just for his own shop, and his Christian Dès fur label. You will visit his workshop where he creates, transforms and repairs coats, hats and scarves. He will show you his methods of working and some of his creations.
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The G4 engraving workshop specialises in metalworking for printing. Nathalie Bégué, Meilleur Ouvrier de France (a top French craftswoman), uses traditional techniques like line-engraving, stamping and embossing on paper. You will be able to see an engraving demonstration.
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This workshop comprises of a group of three craftsmen: a wood gilder, a painting restorer and a picture framer. These specialists will give you a complete panorama of the techniques involved in restoring paintings and bringing out the beauty in canvases.
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Between arts craft and high technology, Henri Selmer Paris has been making brass and wind music instruments since 1885: saxophones, clarinets and bassoons, brass, as well as mouthpieces and accessories. You will visit the showroom with the finest pieces, as well as the repair and fixing workshop for wind instruments.
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Website: www.selmer.fr
Here is one of the last fine leather craft workshop. All kinds of bags are made here on custom, as well as many other leather items. The workshop also takes care of restoration. The front-door shop presents a selection of fine and fancy leather articles. You will attend an introduction to the know-how, and a demonstration of double needles sewing.
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Jean-Jacques offers indoor and outdoor scenes that he entirely builds up himself. For a passionate amateur, he can also create from a theme, or make an exact copy of a place. He will present you his job and know-how in this tour.
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Website: www.rectoversominiatures.com
Located in the faubourg St Antoine since 1880, this company makes and repairs wool mattresses, box springs and bed heads. Combines respect for tradition and modernity, and uses all natural materials.
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Michèle creates frames in the most various materials to enhance drawings and paintings. During the visit, she will show you her artwork on a practical level.
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Anne Chouffet presents the technique of porcelain painting that she has practiced for 25 years in the most famous porcelain manufactures, before starting to teach it. Classes are held daily. The workshop also produces original creations.
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Created in 1727, this workshop makes decorative artificial flowers and feathers for the most prestigious fashion designers. The work is entirely handmade to order. You will be shown the various steps of this ancestral know-how.
Website: www.legeron.com
Discover the profession of the independent bookseller… This bookshop in the east of Paris welcomes you for a talk on how they select their book collection and how they work with publishing houses, authors and customers. A traditional trade that is changing with internet and the big chain stores.
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At first, a musician and classic guitar teacher, Liberto Planas, then trained in the art of stringed-instrument making, which he has now been teaching for many years. He makes and restores most string instruments. His customers are international collectors and museums who are looking for high-quality craftsmanship.
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Célia Malouvier trains small groups of students in her workshop-school. Some choose this as their favourite leisure activity, while others follow a professional vocation. Binding allows to express a personal creativity: Each student designs his project and chooses all the materials. The work requires then much application in contact with beautiful materials as paper and leather. Célia teaches the technique, composed of a following of 150 operations, and how to handle the professional tools. The tour will let you discover the main steps in bookbinding, and the work on each material : leather, paper made in the vat, cloth...
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MM. Auger, father and son, create collection books, with small editions, on beautiful rag papers, for artists or art editors. They will share with you their experience and passion, with a demonstration. You will discover the box of typographical composition, and learn the difference between a monotype letter and a caster lead letter.
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Eric Katz creates unique pieces from salvaged items that he re-looks, in a 1930s to 1950s inspired style. In his workshop shop, he produces and also teaches those who would like to work glass and metal themselves. He will demonstrate his techniques in the course of your visit.
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The wooden art jigsaw puzzle is the Rolls-Royce of puzzles. You will discover that hand cutting refines the level of difficulty of the game, and gives an incomparable finish as it perfectly follows the artwork.
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Website: www.pmw.fr
Elisa, designated one of the best engravers in France “Meilleur Ouvrier de France” works in the engraving workshop created by her father. Their specialty is coats of arms, and small silversmith’s items. They will explain their techniques, and you will be able to watch them using their tools under a microscope.
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Sandra Baud makes fashion leather accessories: bags, wallets, bracelets... for her it is also an art. The shapes, colours, and motifs hold an important place in the making of a leather item that has to be both useful and pleasant. Moreover, Sandra loves to discuss the work with her customers to remain as faithful as possible to their wishes and tastes, within the limit of the spirit of her work. It is important for her to personalize each of her creations and make each one of them a unique item.
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Website: www.plumederadis.com
Sébasien Pisivin restores and creates painted works of art on wood while respecting traditional practices. He will evoke his work, through the pieces in his workshop to describe the materials used and to show how he approaches the subject.
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This company creates modern furniture and items, mainly in leather and paperboard. Their most famous collection is inspired from folding. Isabelle will present to you how they have their product ranges conceived and manufactured.
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Consult us for groups, and other dates or languages. Website: www.quartdepoil.com
The workshop creates all pieces of furniture in brass. This is the place to go for replacing or repairing the ornaments on your period furniture. Bronze-smith and gilder, Rennote owns a shop in Paris and a workshop in Charenton (close suburb). Both are included in the tour (take metro tickets).
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Sally creates hand-made hats on custom, in an elegant baroque style. Through this encounter, you will discover an artwork in the world of upscale fashion.
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This stained-glass workshop has 3 activities: creation, restoration and classes. Created 5 years ago by Claudine Zidi , the workshop now sees the orders flooding in. 3 stained-glass workers are permanently employed, 1 specializes in contemporary creation, another in traditional styles and restoration, and a third in the making of glass jewels from offcuts. The techniques, tools and various steps in the making of stained glass windows will be explained to you during the visit, along with a demonstration.
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Alexis creates pieces of earthenware and porcelain for sophisticated and modern Parisian interiors. She is also a teacher and gives classes for amateurs. Earthenware is an excellent way to centre oneself on what is essential, according to the artist. Alexis offers to share her know-how with you for a discovery visit.
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William Gonin selects and shapes gems to enhance their qualities. A young self-taught man, he works on customized jewellery for private customers and also has a large collection of fine and precious stones to put in his shop window. During the visit, he will show you the classification of stones, the techniques and tools of his work as well as recounting a few anecdotes.
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- Visit in French and English
- Booking on the website:
www.meetingthefrench.com
Website: www.universmineral.com
Patricia's universe is glass, and she expresses herself with stained-glass windows and jewel making. All her creations are unique pieces made on site. During the visit, she will demonstrate the cutting and preparation of the glass before the baking process, and the setting of the pieces.
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Website: www.verrepassion.com
This craftsman works by request to create or repair carved works, often in coordination with cabinet makers. You can come and meet him in his workshop for a presentation of his techniques.
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Automates et poupées
Balcaen, stylish furniture
Ben Azri, jewel and and interior designer
Claire Wolfstirn, contemporary jewels
Claude Delhief's workshop, glyptician
Frédéric Keskinides, furrier
G4 - engraving workshop
Garnier workshop, a bunch of skills related to paintings
Henri Selmer - music instruments maker
Jacques Gauthier, fine leather craft
Jean-Jacques Brisson, miniaturist
Ets. Le Briand, manufacture of traditional bedding
Le Cadrilège, art framing
Le Chambrelain, porcelain painting
Ets. Légeron, artificial flower and feather decorations
Les Orgues bookshop
Liberto Planas, art stringed-instrument maker
Marais book-binding workshop
Mérat-Auger workshop, art engraving and typography
Métal d’Alcôve, lights and luminous sculpture
Michèle Wilson, wooden puzzles
Pardo workshop, coat of arms engraving
Plume de radis, fine leather goods
Primateria, polychromy on wood
Quart de Poil, furniture and item designer
Rennotte workshop, bronze-smith
Sally Ruddock-Rivière, hat-designer
Tempo Vitraux, stained glass
Terrienne, ceramics creation workshop
Univers Minéral, lapidary
Verre Passion, glass jewel designer
Vincent Mouchez, ornamental detail sculptor