An unique collaboration between two French MaisonsThe egg : the flagship ingredient for M. Guy SavoySilver 9502017 it is a year which highlight the restaurant Guy Savoy. Selected by La Liste as "the best table in the world", Maison Guy Savoy put f...
An unique collaboration between two French Maisons
The egg : the flagship ingredient for M. Guy Savoy
Silver 950
2017 it is a year which highlight the restaurant Guy Savoy. Selected by La Liste as "the best table in the world", Maison Guy Savoy put forward the french gastronomy on the international scene. To celebrate this excellence, Monnaie de Paris choose to create a medal with culinaries colors of the Guy Savoy's universe.
Obverse : Around
this ingredient, there is Guy Savoy’s quote : “Cooking is the
art of being able to instantly transform ingredients laden with history into
joy”.We
can also discover on all the drawings the four elements essential to the chef’s
alchemical work: fire for the cooking, the nourishing earth, water, pool of
wealth, and air, required for certain recipes
Reverse : .the
neck takes the shape of a skate wing, the body is drawn with artichoke leaves,
with the texture of a truffle and with the scales of a fish. The tail is made
of a cabbage leaf.
The Collection
Founded in 864, Monnaie of Paris is the oldest company in the world. It has cultivated tradition in the metal artworks for twelve centuries. As such, it is an associate member of Colbert Committee, gathering the greatest French luxury companies.
In 2014, Monnaie of Paris is celebrating its 1150th anniversary. For this occasion, Monnaie of Paris is launching a new collection named "French Excellence". The aim is to highlight every year one of the art crafts that constitute the unique heritage of French luxury, by working with one major house belonging to Colbert Committee.
It is obviously the meeting of two great French houses, the Louvre and Monnaie de Paris, that nourishes this edition, but also the meeting of know-how several centuries apart. It is actually a great emotion to engrave again these historical motifs as the craftsmen of the time were able to do in their time. I feel like I am in the shoes of the Pharaoh's personal engraver more than three millennia later.
Engraver word
Our craftman
THE MEDAL MINTER
The medal minter transforms a blank into a medal, alternating between striking to bring out the relief and annealing to return the metal to a more malleable state. The blank is struck as many times as necessary, depending on the diameter, depth and detail of the engraving. Finally, surface treatments are applied to enhance the finished piece
THE ENGRAVER
Trained at the best schools, they have the years of experience behind them necessary to master all aspects of the craft. Using industrial oil-based modelling clay and working from a design executed freehand or with CAD software, they skilfully fashion a low relief model in order to enhance the engraving and the way it catches the light. They work alternately with concave and convex plaster moulds until satisfied they have achieved the best 3D rendering of the design.
