What I particularly like is to take the lead. Scraping cast iron, that’s a must, but that’s not why I do this job. No, I like to find solutions, to fight with the metal, to adjust it and tame it in fact. I don’t want to create, I want to make and therefore ask myself questions. I just want to be a good jeweller.
S., 4 years of school and in the workshop for one and a half years.
Improbable tools
Some improbable tools. Photo: ©Marie Chabrol "As an apprentice, I still remember the day I had my first shopping list to pick up. It was barely 48 hours since I had set foot in a jewellery workshop, and already I felt that I would have to demonstrate very quickly...