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The Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main® - The 2024 winners

Clémence Althabegoïty, designer and resident at Les Ateliers de Paris, is the winner of the Prix Dialogues with Catherine Romand, basket-maker.

Selected for their creativity, values and uniqueness, the winners of this year's competition won over a panel of judges chaired by Laurence des Cars, President-Director of the Louvre Museum, and including emblematic figures from the French and international creative worlds.

Launched in 1999, the aim of this award is to highlight and propel diverse talent on a global scale. While the focus was primarily on technological advances, this clearly visionary and innovative mission has evolved over the years to offer three distinct awards: Exceptional Talent, Dialogues and Pathways.

"For the past 25 years, we have been constantly listening to the craftsmen and women involved, in order to ensure that the Prize evolves as closely as possible to their needs. The history of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main is the story of constant reinvention." - Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, President of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation

Exceptional talents: Nadège Mouyssinat, porcelain maker

Porcelain as light as air

Blending the beautiful and the useful. This exercise reaches a form of perfection with the Pseudosphères Console, composed of a polished stainless steel top on which rest 24 porcelain cones that seem to float in space, reaching out to infinity. It took four years to create this work, from conception to completion. 

Julie Limont

Dialogues: Catherine Romand, basket maker & Clémence Althabegoïty, designer

An ode to the ancestral art of basketry and the passage of time

With this woven wicker shade, basket-maker Catherine Romand and designer Clémence Althabegoïty have combined their expertise to create an object as futuristic as it is poetic.

Clémence Althabegoïty joined Les Ateliers de Paris in September 2024.

Clémence Althabegoity (left) and Catherine Romand (right) © Julie Limont for Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
Julie Limont for Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

Itinerary: Acta Vista, restoring heritage, fighting exclusion

Founded in Marseille in 2002, the Acta Vista association is dedicated to a single goal: rebuilding a heritage, rebuilding a future. 

An exceptional human adventure, the initiative also plays a key role in the transmission of know-how at a time when companies in the sector are struggling to recruit due to a lack of vocation and qualified personnel. Since its creation, Acta Vista has trained over 8,500 people and restored some 40 heritage sites. Today, the company operates in three regions (Centre-Val de Loire, PACA and Occitanie), restoring the most prestigious buildings, from Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille to the surrounding wall of the Domaine National de Chambord.

Julie Limont for Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

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