2023-11-07 12:36:40
Published on November 7, 2023 1:36 p.m. / Modified on November 7, 2023 1:38 p.m.
Woodturner, lampshade maker, copper boilermaker: our portraits of women and men who maintain a passion for their arts and their materials.
It all starts with a few thin plates of precious metal. Money very often, but also gold on occasion, which Noémie Gogniat places in a terracotta crucible. Using a blowtorch whose intensity she adjusts precisely, the jeweler melts the material before pouring it into an ingot mold. A long and meticulous work then begins to transform the rectangular block into a wire whose diameter will be around that of a hair.
Then comes the time to twist it, cut it and fold it meticulously to give birth to pieces of goldwork of a finesse comparable to that of lace. If the confident gestures of the original Jurassian suggest that she has been practicing this know-how for a long time, this is not the case. It even took an incredible helping hand from fate for her to discover it by chance, thousands of kilometers from her Chaux-de-Fonier workshop.
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