2024

HUBERT GARDERE ARTISAN DE LA PIERRE

Craftsman Work

If you want to discover the workshop, you need to call before you go. Hubert Gardere is a stone tailor. This artisan performs custom-made work for its customers. It carries out structures with engravings, sculptures, coats of arms, external fountains, older work plans, exterior stairs, interior stairs, leather walls, dry stone walls and stone walls. He went from creation to renovation of old buildings, wayside. The stones worked arrive from France and Navarre. His accomplishments require two weeks for a simple two-month dressing for a larger demand. The work is carried out from A to Z, from drawing to mouldings to laying. Little flash-back on the life of this craftsman. After completing his training of stone-cutter in Bordeaux, Hubert Gardere spent seven years working in Paris. He intervened on various remarkable sites in France: in the Louvre, the Pantheon, the Invalides, the Lery Castle, the Saint-Denis Basilica, the Senate, the Versailles Castle, the Van Gogh House at Auvers-sur-Oise, then Switzerland, Bern and the Beyeler Museum in Basel. Prestigious references. In 2004, he decided to take his account. He works with young apprentices and every Saturday afternoon for two hours for a public of young and adults, he gives courses of sculpture and stone size. If I dared to misuse the formula, I would say that'our craftsmen have talent '. This gentleman especially!

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