Empreinte Wine Opener by Audiard

Empreinte Wine Opener by Audiard, an unconventional tableware object for opening and sharing a fine vintage. Sculptor Michel Audiard and his partner Sébastien Forest have opened up a new cultural path, that combines the emotion of a bespoke work of art, the hedonism of an exceptional art of living and the sublime use of an everyday object as an unconventional tableware to open and share a vintage wine. The production of each Empreinte wine opener by Audiard, in the Rochecorbon art foundry, is an artistic and artisanal feat requiring more than 15 operations over 10 to 12 weeks, and mobilizing Michel Audiard’s entire team of craftsmen, from moulder to polisher.
The life of this emblematic object goes beyond the pleasure of contemplation, the beautý of the gesture and the fascination of the sublime moment. Cast for eternitý, it is also the purest and most moving of objects of transmission. A pledge of posteritý. Its owner leaves behind the most beautiful of traces, that of his hand, which can be passed down from generation to generation. This Empreinte by Audiard will remain alive, as everyone will be able to put their own hand on it and reproduce the original gesture, hand in hand with their father, their mother, their great friend... What’s more, so that descendants can each have a Wine Opener as a souvenir, the matrices of each Empreinte by Audiard are carefully preserved for 25 years at the workshop, along with those of Guy Savoy or Yann Queffelec, for example, enabling us to reproduce a few copies identically. Receiving your Empreinte by Audiard wine opener is an experience in itself, a precious moment. When the box is opened, only the wooden base bearing the artist’s signature is visible. Impatience wins over. To discover the object of all expectations, the unique sculpture, the hand plunges into a raw canvas pouch, which already announces the play of contrasts between abstraction and figuration, spontaneitý and high precision, luxury and everyday life.
Empreinte by Audiard is a powerful human and artistic experience to be lived, shared and passed on, to leave the strongest and most moving of imprints, yours.

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