After years of continuous losses, the national flagship of stainless steel cutlery and porcelain is now focusing on luxury. The historic factory of the tableware company Guy Degrenne, located on the heights of Vire (Calvados), has not changed since its inauguration with great fanfare, at the end of 1967, by the Secretary of State for Problems of the employment of the time, a certain Jacques Chirac.
The receptionist's gatehouse, listed as a historic monument, the designer facade with undulating steel, the imposing sculpture of stainless Steel coils by the artist Arman. Everything remained in its own juice.