His rare moments of free time, he spends them hiking in the country.
And, even there, the workshop is never far away.
“We are coming back from Aveyron, where we have a hermitage with my wife in Cézallier
, says Edwin Clément.
We just found a small Romanesque chapel to cry!
These stone arches are sublime.
The energy of their curvature makes me think of bows…»
Energy.
It is at the heart of Edwin Clément's know-how.
At this passionate fifty-year-old, who shares his life between his barn in Nièvre, opposite the Morvan forest massif, and his small workshop in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, no website or Zoom.
No large display window either.
The bow maker immediately warns:
“People don't come to me to choose ten or twenty bows.
When I present two to a musician, it's already too much.
This would mean that there are two options, and therefore that I did not know how to understand it.
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