Ateliers de Paris : 2020 Crafts Development Award

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.