Maison des Métiers d’Excellence – LVMH

Three questions for Ramy Fischler

What role does craftsmanship play in your creative process?

The use of craftsmanship is central to the design of the spaces and, even more so, the furniture we create. As a designer before becoming an interior designer, I am always on the lookout for new manufacturing techniques and new materials, which leads me to collaborate with traditional or more innovative craftsmen, depending on the project. I see each project as an opportunity to take on a new challenge that requires a unique technology or expertise. With the ecological challenges that also affect our professions, we have focused our research on bio-based or composite materials, collaborating with a new generation of artisans who are also adapting their craftsmanship to the challenges of our time.

For 10 years, Métiers d’Excellence has been ensuring that expertise is passed on to new generations. Why do you think this transfer of knowledge is so important?

Passing on expertise is indeed essential, and there is still much to be done to raise awareness among new generations about the richness and opportunities offered by these professions, which are too often undervalued. Craftsmanship, innovation, and creativity are indispensable to France’s economy and international influence, so we must do everything we can to preserve these professions and encourage young people to train in them, in order to create new creative synergies that will continue to reinvent the codes of excellence.

This box set reveals for the first time details of the architecture of the workshops that will be open to the general public in the Maison des Métiers d’Excellence. Why is working on a Maison des Savoir-Faire symbolic for you?

This Maison represents all the reasons why I have been passionate and committed to this profession for 20 years: thinking about the synergies between craftsmanship, hospitality in the broadest sense, the transmission and sharing of knowledge, in a single building, which will come alive every day with visits and encounters. It is an honor but also an exciting challenge to imagine a setting capable of accommodating this diversity of uses and worlds in a 19th-century mansion.