Étiquette : Medalmaker

« Savoir-Faire et Faire savoir, ni artiste ni artisan, mais les deux »… Nicolas Salagnac engraver medalmaker, Best Worker of France in Lyon

Portrait and Nicolas SALAGNAC’s discovery, engraver medalmaker, Best Worker of France, creator of medal in its account in Lyon. A movie writes, realized and gone up by Susanne SCHUBERT in 2011. This movie is realized […]

» Nicolas, engraver « , Barbara Bégot’s movie for TLM – 1998

» Nicolas, engraver « , Barbara Bégot’s movie for TLM, realized by Octogone production in 1997 – 1998. It makes 20 years. I am in the period at the beginning of the competition « one of the […]

The engraving of a medal for the 2012 Ironman race

I was asked to engrave a medal for a video clip about the 2012 Ironman triathlon race. Direct carving from a bronze piece. A few hours of shooting late into the night with a great […]

« The Rape of Proserpina » by Bernini inspired the engraver Salagnac

This film describes the creation stages of the making of a medal inspired by a detail in a sculpture from Le Bernin, « The Abduction of Proserpine by Pluto ». The work started at the Nicolas Salagnac […]

Louvre, Mona Lisa and Victoire de Samothrace

The first tourist coin from the Louvre Museum affect its female icons : The famous Joconde (Mona Lisa from Léonard de Vinci), and The » Victoire de Samothrace ». This is for the R.M.N. They chose […]

Designing and making a medal

Designing and making a medal A medal can be made using three different techniques : 1 – Hand engraving or « direct carving » This traditional technique allows the craftsman to directly execute his work at the actual […]