Twenty four hours a day the cycle continues

For more than two centuries, the mystery remains. The mystery One of the gesture that turns the magma Molten 1,450 degrees lace, pampille, globe, lustre or Cup. A mystery which is sound Crystal and Baccarat and always occurs in this namesake lorraine city, despite globalization - China how much of this climax of the French style. This trend is not yesterday. Since 1764, the manufactory shines bright Royal commands - the first date of 1823 and in 2011 the other should be delivered to the oldest ruling dynasty in the world-, the extravagance of the maharajas of Baroda or Bikaner, the bounty of the Romanov family - whose appetite for the cristallerie necessitated the installation of a dedicated oven. Today, these huge halls, living architectural heritage, are also of the names of the designers who Starck to Ettore Sottsass, via Marcel Wanders, Jaime Hayon, Andrée Putman, Mathias and many others, dream of a thing: create here fixtures, glasses, objects and jewels. Result Inheritance the grandeur of yesterday, rich in the aisles and other temples of designed Crystal for the universal exhibition, responds the modernity of the design and technological innovation which is not denied. Logic, in the same way that control of the know-how, it has always been the reputation of the factory. The alliance of the two allows miracles. As this Baccarat, symbol of the House red, so powerful that it slips in pampille in each lustre.

This powerful Ruby is feared for the more experienced guys. And yet to Baccarat, there is little cowardly side know-how. Logical, the best workers of France density is here the highest in the world - they are 28 - Yes, 28. But the creation of this red in binding on everyone. Its composition is similar, it is true that a secret of Alchemist: this is a summary of elements where glow-lead and gold which will give its final color. Beautiful as a recipe for philosopher's stone emerging in the furnace of Athanor. The heroic dimension and more.

Since around the furnaces, to dance a strange ballet where man flirts with fire and dompte matter by imposing form. With strength and softness. These craftsmen. With expertise in heritage: they are sons, grandsons, brothers and sisters of this aristocracy of the Crystal. They have tattoos of sailors, bodies carved by the hard life near the mouths of fire which mutes the breath. Under their lips and fingers, nimble as those of Vladimir Horowitz on a keyboard, are born more dizzying torsades de candlesticks, Crystal lace and fine legs and foot - this applies to one sweet nickname of King of the lace. They work quickly. Faster than the material. Because as soon as the temperature drops, the Crystal breaks. And found its color. Midnight black, jade or Sapphire, gold or silver. And white, to yellow chips for the red crystal. Because gold expresses Ruby unless it is heated a second time. Furnaces for the models in a hurry to get this famous red said five hours, butterflies and other decorative objects. The hand when the object is blown. In a game of cannes, the Crystal is then subjected to the heat of the fire, blown once again... A choreography of precision, full of grace and poetry.

Poetry found in the vocabulary of the factory who flirts more often believed the with Prévert: is alongside gatherers who will pick up the ball of magma in the oven, the carreurs blowing the parison - the upper part of the glass-, busy legs places heads and feet - of glass-, dentelliers, burnersthe spin masters and the fearsome choisisseuses that, a look, return an object to a non-invisible to the layperson. It is not lost: he joined ovens, returns to the merger and participates in the uniqueness of this crystal. Twenty - four hours a day, the cycle continues. Two steps from the fire, in workshops in cold, on dore brush, on polished acid, on size diamond, is serious to wax, on lustre of new pieces of exception for the next fair of design in Milan, are packaging incredible items such as the Tsarina candelabras... Two thousand references which are pride of the House Baccarat and his setting of the place of the United States in Paris. Logical sum: what other place the former mansion of Charles and Marie Laure of Noailles - or rather Marie gold as called it his surrealist friends - to accommodate this or sublimated by the lead...