NEWS
20-12-2021
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 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 12th edition, the SMEs RMC Trophies are classified under inventiveness and innovation. They counted 900 applications and rewarded 49 regional laureates (ceremonies from November 19th to November 30th, 2021) and 7 national laureates (awards ceremony on December 16th, 2021).
The last December 2nd, 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.
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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Ateliers d'Art de France trade union represents more than 6,000 craftspeople, crafts artists and art manufacturers, including 95 associations. Its main objective is to defend and promote art and craft professionals, while contributing to the economic development of their workshops.
The Grands Prix de la Création (Grand Prizes of Creation) are mobilized in an ambitious policy of the city of Paris in favour of design, fashion and artcrafts.