Catherine Romand's speaking rate is as fast as her fingers which move tirelessly, weaving, according to a secret artisanal algorithm, strands of wicker and strands of leather.
This is how a delicate basket, as thin as it is resistant, takes shape before our eyes, the fruit of its collaboration with Delvaux.
The famous leather goods maker, "patented supplier to the Royal Court of Belgium", has indeed commissioned the basket maker to reinterpret in wicker its best-selling game bag, created in 1972, the Pin.
The challenge is daunting.
“It is very important to highlight this know-how of basketry which is gradually disappearing
, explains the almost sixty-year-old.
So when the Delvaux team came to see me, we had a big discussion on this subject: I wanted real collaboration, and not for the basket weavers to remain in the shadows.
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The Pin Mini Bucket Osier bag, made by Catherine Romand for Delvaux.
Delvaux
Catherine Romand has been weaving this “magical material”
for 44 years
.
Since she was 15 more precisely, where the teenager, destined to kiss…
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