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The aim of this
website is to
share my passion with you.
The
medieval world got my interrest for some years. When I have a few
hours ahead of me, I'm travelling through time in search
of Middle Ages artisan's gestures and especially the
techniques of medieval armorers.
This
may seems strange to some, and clear to others but when the hot iron
is yellow-orange, the piece takes a shape on the ball according to my
hammer, there happens a kind of contact, with the craftsmen of
yesteryear.
This
feeling is growing as we get closer to think of their moves. They
used similar tools, worked material had to react the
same way, they
would face the same challenges, experience the same feelings ... make
the same moves. |
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Release a chapel, a salad or a helmet from a metal disk with balls and hammers is exciting. After seeing
one of my pieces formed this way, a historian told me they found on
historical pieces, the same drawings in steel tortured by hammers. This
observation further amplifies this feeling of contact with my distant
predecessors.
I do not register in a logic of efficiency. Productivity, delays, pieces in series, competitiveness does
not match what I want.
I want to take the time to carry out my projects or yours at my own
pace, relax and forget for a moment the XXI century's stress. |
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