Category: Events & Exhibitions
Les Rencontres des savoir-faire - conferences on design and arts and crafts
Spring 2025 program
Free conferences open to all
Dedicated to a wide audience, the Rencontres des savoir-faire are
weekly events during which
knowledge of research, innovation and creation
design et métiers d'art is shared. They also cover the history of
l'art and the decorative arts, as well as the activities of the Manufactures
nationales, Sèvres (manufacture and museum of Sèvres and Adrien Dubouché museum in Limoges) and Mobilier national (tapestries from the Gobelins and Beauvais, carpets from the Savonnerie and lace from Puy-en-Velay and Alençon) and its restoration and creation workshops (ARC).
Program
Cycle 1 - À table, tout est art!
The decorative arts of gastronomy
With Natascha Jakobsen and Pierre Sanner
In partnership with : Le repas gastronomique des Français and Sèvres Manufacture et Musée Nationaux
- Tuesday, March 11 / 6:30 pm
Se restaurer : un patrimoine si français
With : Jean-Claude Ribaut, Gastronomic columnist and Laurent Bihl, University of Paris 1 - Tuesday, April 1 / 6:30 pm
Wonders at the Musée national de Céramique: teapots, cups, plates and more!
With : Anais Bouche, Céline Paul and Soazig Guilmin - Tuesday May 6 / 6:30 pm
Ceremonial dining: an art of diplomacy
With : Laurent Stefanini, Ambassador
Cycle 2 - Far-off inspirations.
Design and craftsmanship put to the travel test
With Marc Bayard
In partnership with Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
- Tuesday, March 18 / 6:30 pm
American inspirations: Villa Albertine
Intentional fires in California: research into a situated practice
With : Garance Maurer, Artist-designer - Tuesday, April 8 / 6:30 pm
Algerian inspirations: sources of design (DZign 2024)
With : Amin Derras, French Institute of Algeria - Tuesday, May 13 / 6:30 pm
Indian inspirations: Villa Swagatam
With : Victoire de Brantes, Product and textile artist-designer
Cycle 3 - Laboratory of sustainable practices:
innovative craft practices
With Marc Bayard and Magali Lancien
In partnership with : Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, Slow Mode, French Craft and Banque Populaire Fondation d'entreprise
- Tuesday, March 25 / 6:30 pm
The art of recovering/recycling: or how constraint becomes a creative lever
With : Sophie Chénel, Procédés Chénel and Gauthier Dietschi, Nosqua - Tuesday, April 29 / 6:30 pm
Les acteurs du faire: les nouveaux pôles intégratifs des métiers d'art
With : Mr Vincent Matheron, Cité du Faire, Mayor of Jarville-la-Malgrange, Monique Manoha, Cité du Faire, Jarville-la-Malgrange and Romain Gazzola, L'Orfèvrerie, Saint-Denis - Tuesday, May 20 / 6:30 pm
Nature as a resource, what's new?
With : Jean-François Bassereau, Ensad, La Ressourceraie and Léonard Bayeurte, Ensad
Practical information
Free admission subject to availability
Les Rencontres des savoir-faire
42, avenue des Gobelins,
75013 Paris
M - Les Gobelins
