Last update 2009/01/19

My workshop is in the south of France, forty kilometers north of Montpellier, in the small village of Moulès-et-Baucels. In the Garrigue - the typical Mediterranean landscape with scrubs and herbaceous plants - between thyme and olive-trees, I dedicate myself to a passion, which, although felt since I was very young, became my full-time profession only at the beginning of the 1990's:
the creation and the manufacture of knives ...

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From time immemorial, the knife was a source of inspiration for the man. In this beginning of the 21st century, the knives are often objects of desire.

Some are inspired to create them, others find their utility there. The fusion of the two concepts, inspiration and utility gives the art of the knife and my passion to create them.

 

The lines of my knives are characterized by the fluidity of the blade and the curves of the handle. These last years the fascination for knives did not cease growing. The fusion of a blade with engravings or sculptures on the handle affirmed the manufacture of the knife as an art and thus became increasingly appreciated. Personally I think that the association of sculptures, engravings, scrimshaws etc... was exaggerated so much that one forgot the main part: the knife itself. But recently this tendency seems to have matured and becomes more reasonable and of better taste.

Today the art knife can be considered as a jewel when it reaches the perfection of the finish and the purity of the lines.

The future of the knife is in the preservation of its essence; cutting, simplicity and perfection. Because the collectors are becoming more and more informed and demanding, the development of the art knife can only follow this direction.

To finish I wish to repeat once again that two most significant qualities, which characterize a good knife, are: simplicity and perfection.

 

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