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Resolutely turned towards the future but at the same time well anchored in his time, the cutlery Claude Dozorme knew how to intelligently take the turn of the digital and the video to highlight his universes and range of associated knives.

After having brilliantly revealed, last year, its range of outdoor pocket knives, in a video made by HMWK, the cutlery thiernoise recidivates this year.
For this new collaboration with HMWK, Claude Dozorme wanted to exhibit his range dedicated to the world of the cellar with a staging of his corkscrews Clos Laguiole and Le Thiers®.
It must be said that Claude Dozorme’s corkscrews are most inspiring.

Clos Laguiole and Le Thiers®, 2 iconic sommeliers

Sommelier Le Thiers® par Claude Dozorme

Entirely manufactured at the heart of the cutlery in Thiers, Clos Laguiole and Le Thiers® are two very high precision’s corkscrews.

The family cutlery is part of the two emblematic French forms that are the shape of Laguiole and that of Le Thiers® to design these essential everyday tools that combine corkscrew, bottle opener and capsule cutter. The Dozorme sommeliers are also equipped with a conical drill specially designed in a high-quality steel guaranteeing a perfect opening of the bottles (even the oldest) without damaging or breaking the plugs.

Very appreciated by connoisseurs of wine, sommeliers Dozorme dress up in their finery. We can find handles in precious wood or horn, all-carbon versions and even a special collection “France” with blue-white-red scales.

Sommelier Clos Laguiole par Claude Dozorme

A video signed HMWK

It is therefore through the sommeliers, that the audiovisual production company HMWK wanted to enhance the range “cellar” Claude Dozorme. Under the expert eye of Blanche, the director of the clip, they take here their full dimension.
Subtlety, as usual, Blanche chose to parallel the work of the winemaker and that of the cutler. For 2 minutes, we become the privileged witnesses of the slow path necessary for the creation of a cuvée and a product stamped Dozorme. It shows the importance of the hands and the materials, the precision and the rigor required as well as the passion screwed to the body.
And the result is most captivating. We let ourselves be carried away by these images with a licked aesthetic and by this almost off-the-wall voice that tells you a story of men and passion.
A very beautiful artistic feat the fruit of the collaboration of a centennial family business and a start-up settled in Clermont-Ferrand!

Want to shop corkscrews Le Thiers® by Dozorme ?

Visit our online store for further information about Clos Laguiole and about sommelier Le Thiers®

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Last Thursday, June 20, 2019, Charlotte Charbonnel, the Parisian artist in residence at Claude Dozorme since the beginning of the year, has unveiled its first creative tracks, fruit of its working sessions within the cutlery. A first release pending full exposure from its work on metals, scheduled for June 2020.

Named Nucleus and installed in the Cave of the contemporary art center “Le Creux de l’enfer”, this installation features multiple arrows made from skeletons of damask metal, with the help of the employees of the Thiers factory. Installation imprinted dioramas of the nineteenth century (reproduction of scenes of wildlife), it illustrates a life-size hunting scene. Stuck in the rock or suspended arrows, objects at once precious and almost primitive, encamp the astonishing and archaic image of a suspended attack, stopped in its tracks.

Using the complex technique of Damascus, Charlotte Charbonnel has also tested several assembly, cutting and revelation experiments. These experiments are to be admired in his work Fulgure, also exhibited in the Cave.

Photo credit : © G. Maroni – DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Photo credit : © G. Maroni – DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The opening took place at the center of contemporary art, Le Creux de l’enfer in the presence of many guests including Claudine Dozorme and her team come in number to discover the work of Charlotte Charbonnel. It must be said that as Claudine Dozorme emphasizes, “the team proved to be in contact with Charlotte. Week after week, they were waiting for him. They were very generous to her and were able to meet all her technical expectations. It is a very beautiful experience that allows to show other aspects of the cutlery and to value differently the basin of Thiers “.

Photo credit : © G. Maroni – DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Nucleus and Fulgure by Charlotte Charbonnel, works that are both powerful and poetic to discover until September 22, 2019 in Creux de l’enfer.

Technical information
Nucleus
Variable dimensions
Design year: 2019
Materials: Damascus steel, brass, pump and sound device

Fulgure
5 cm x 200 cm
Design year: 2019
Materials: Damascus steel

Since February 14, 2019, the Claude Dozorme cutlery welcomes the artist Charlotte Charbonnel.

Photo credit : Jodie Way

This project is part of the program “Residences en entreprise” set up by the Ministry of Culture in 2014 and led by the DRAC (Regional Directorates of cultural affairs). Today, 15 residences are spreading throughout France, including 3 in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, whose vocation is to bring together cultural structures, artists and companies.
In Thiers in Puy-de-Dôme, it was under the impetus of Michel Prosic, former sub-prefect of Thiers and current Regional Director of the DRAC, that this project was initiated between Charlotte Charbonnel, the cutlery Claude Dozorme and Le Creux de l’enfer, contemporary art center.

A residence initiated by Le Creux de l’enfer

It is in the heart of the Vallée des Usines, along the Durolle, that is the center of contemporary art, Le Creux de l’enfer led since 8 March by Sophie Auger-Grappin. She was immediately interested in the artist residency project which meets the many objectives she has set for herself: to enhance the socio-economic fabric of the area, to combine contemporary art and craftsmanship, technical skills and scientific knowledge, and finally, have the site recognized at a national level.

Photo credit : Massimo Lenzo

The meeting with Claudine Dozorme immediately reinforced her choice of residence within the cutlery “Claudine immediately expressed her interest in welcoming Charlotte Charbonnel while leaving her free from her movements and her actions. We must indeed be able to trust the artist, that he can develop his own work without being instrumentalized. For the artist, it was necessary to find someone open, curious and able to work in collaboration because for a residence to work, it is necessary that the 2 parts are in the dialogue, that they communicate. With Charlotte Charbonnel, protean artist very cultivated and very curious, the project was announced under the best auspices”.

Cutlery, a new field of experimentation for Charlotte Charbonnel

Photo credit : Jodie Way

For this first residence in business, Charlotte Charbonnel leaves her comfort zone. Accustomed to creating a work from an idea, she makes the opposite way to her creative process.

It starts from the cutler know-how specific to Dozorme manufacture and confronts machines and men to build its project. “Every time I visit, every worker takes time to explain the different materials and manufacturing steps. There is a real exchange, it’s very motivating. Alongside Jérôme Ollier, one of the workshop workers, I was able to experiment with stamping technics. He showed me the gestures and guided me on my first manipulations. He lives knife, breathes knife, it’s an integral part of his DNA. He does not even realize the gold he has in his hands.”

A cohabitation that makes sense

Photo credit : Jodie Way

Cutlery employees are therefore privileged witnesses of a creative process that takes a fresh look at their own activity and must contribute to changing their perception of the art world.

A wonderful opportunity for Dozorme cutlery, as Claudine Dozorme points out, “our factory must be disconnected from its economic contingencies. It must refocus on the human aspect. To be there to promote beautiful encounters, promote a know-how and federate employees around an ambitious artistic project “.
A beautiful way to bring contemporary art into the often very compartmentalized world of business.

On June 20, 2019, Charlotte Charbonnel will present her first creative tracks at Creux de l’enfer.

Who is Charlotte Charbonnel?

At just 39, Charlotte Charbonnel is an unclassifiable artist. At the same time visual artist, painter, sculptor but also designer, scenographer, soundman, researcher or even alchemist, this graduate of the Beaux-Arts of Tours and the Decorative Arts of Paris, does not stop wanting to weave invisible links that unite the elementary matters. Her work derives from empirical research with multiple inputs: listening and capturing materials or natural phenomena, exploring the different states of matter, meticulous observation of elusive substances … She thus finds in undecided fluids, capricious waves, clouds, fumes, or other hazy forms, an unlimited field of experimentation. For this urban artist who lives and works in Paris, Nature invariably remains her greatest source of inspiration. She draws her energy and creativity without limit in the service of her works.