Prizes Savoir-faire en transmission have opened their call for applications

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”.