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Lorenzi, the model workshop

2022-01-28T06:16:26.099Z


REPORT - Founded one hundred and fifty years ago, this prestigious house specializing in the art of statuary molding, which collaborated with Dalí or Giacometti, makes itself available to artists, institutions or individuals with the same enthusiasm as in the great era.


It is a place of true poetry. A singular residence, in the middle of a busy artery in Arcueil (Val-de-Marne), which looks like an old country house with an outdated air and whose mere exterior appearance immediately invites you to travel through time. In the courtyard of this former georural-style coaching inn, a small group is busy near replicas of masters. Behind a half-open window on the first floor, silhouettes equipped with imposing statues come and go. Composed of eight people, Éric Nadeau's team is almost complete on this winter morning. Under the leadership of this Canadian national, passionate about history, in 2018 she took over the torch from the Lorenzi family. A prestigious lineage which, since 1871, has excelled in the art of French statuary molding. A big challenge,but to the extent of this assembly which offers 1600 pieces for sale… among the 3000 molds, skilfully listed in a catalog, housed in these places…

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Source: lefigaro

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