• The Meyer workshop in Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin) specializes in the conservation and restoration of historical and religious heritage.

    It is also a reference in fine gold gilding and the manufacture of high-end frames.

  • Pascal Meyer, who runs it, is Meilleur Ouvrier de France, as were his father and grandfather who handed him over.

    It is unique in France.

  • If the preferred field of the Meyer workshop remains the restoration of heritage and gilding with fine gold, it also responds to a new private and very wealthy clientele with various requirements.

Passionate and thrilling.

The Meyer workshop, which specializes in the conservation and restoration of historical and religious heritage, is also a reference in fine gold gilding and the manufacture of high-end frames.

Pascal Meyer, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, discreetly showcases French know-how in France and well beyond our borders.

Unique thing, whatever the category, the family rubs shoulders with excellence for almost a hundred years.

“It is the only company in France to hold three generations of MOFs”, underlines the forty-year-old with the collar of a blue-white-red blouse.

His grandfather was indeed elected one of the Best Workers in France in 1976, as was his father in 1972 and finally him in November 2000.

Accompanied by his wife Eladia, from a Spanish family which includes both jewelers and organ builders, an expert (among others) in the restoration of paintings, he responds with their young team to the most rewarding orders.

In the Bas-Rhin, their references look like a shopping list before a big party: the Cathedral of Strasbourg, the Orthodox Church of Strasbourg, the Abbey of Ebersmunster, the Chamber of Commerce... The workshop can still boast to intervene at the Embassy of the United States in Paris, at the Orange museum, the cathedral of Sens, at the champagne producer Veuve Clicquot in Reims... But also, to give a new impetus to their art in countries of East, Japan or the Middle East.

Enough to give confidence to their new sponsors, often interior designers based in London.

“A bling-bling trend”

A family story that is also keen to pass on its knowledge to new generations to perpetuate traditions, work well done, excellence.

"I like the transmission, but it is also part of the balance of the company", confides Pascal Meyer.

The Meilleur Ouvrier de France has already trained 14 apprentices and currently has a Meilleur Apprentice de France (MAF) in its young team of four (they are all in their twenties).

Authorized by the museums of France, labeled Living Heritage Company, the workshop has what it takes to give confidence to their sponsors, which is essential in the profession where discretion reigns.

While the company preserves the most beautiful national works, it also responds to requests from individuals, often the wealthiest customers, for very high-end products.

Demand is changing, it “tends to be bling-bling, it has to shine”, smiles Pascal Meyer.

This is also the road to “super luxury” that the workshop has taken in recent years.

The interior of quail eggs lined with gold leaf

“We like to take up challenges, laughs the craftsman.

What I enjoy is looking for new gilding techniques for new supports.

On all porous materials, we know how to do it in the workshop.

But for all that is glass, plastic, aluminum, etc., we are trying to develop new techniques for new gilding effects and suddenly, to go to high-end, French or foreign luxury houses, to tell them: we have mastered the sheet for almost 100 years, now if you have a special order, we know how to do it.

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This is how they lined the interior of some fifty quail eggs for a great chef with gold leaf, covered the entrance hall of a Boeing with gold leaf, a ramp of swimming pool, deer horns, aluminum flasks or manufacture and gild with 24-carat gold 14 large frames for the mirrors of a yacht… Examples or projects, the small Alsatian company has many others, but she can't talk about.

Discreet clientele oblige, silence is golden.

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