In Love with it! Exceptional Limited Edition Bottle Guerlain Muguet

MUGUET 2014 VINTAGE

Candid and poetic, with a fleeting presence that makes it all the more precious… Each year, Muguet by Guerlain blossoms anew on May 1st. Since 2006, this event within the Exclusive Collections has given the Maison Guerlain an opportunity to celebrate spring and strengthen its bonds with the art world.
Every year, one of the most prestigious artisans and “Maîtres d’art” (master craftsmen) of France is invited to create a unique adornment for the good-luck flower, one that fully expresses his or her talent and exceptional know-how.
This year, Guerlain celebrates a traditional French artisanal skill, the art of porcelain, and chooses Brigitte de Bazelaire, a talented Parisian ceramic artist, to express her creativity around the iconic Bee bottle. Known for her luminous creations inspired by nature and steeped in extreme refinement, this artist dreamed up a bottle holder with carefree, springtime charm for the 2014 Vintage. It is made of immaculate white porcelain biscuit
decorated with a raised pattern of delicate lily of the valley sprigs.
To produce this delicate and fine masterpiece, Brigitte de Bazelaire worked with Les Porcelaines de la Fabrique.
This porcelain manufacturer, based in Limoges and founded in 1825, is renowned for the excellence of its creations, made with traditional techniques passed down from one generation to the next.
The Bee bottle, adorned by the “dames de table” craftswomen with a white label and an elegant white grosgrain bow, is presented with its bottle holder in a luxurious white paper box embossed with the iconic Guerlain bees.

MAKING OF: THE MANUFACTURING SECRETS OF AN EXCEPTIONAL PIECE

Brigitte de Bazelaire begins on the potter’s wheel, giving shape to the elegant form of the bottle holder that she uses to build a plaster mould on which to engrave the motifs. This mould is given to the modellers of Les Porcelaines de la Fabrique, who design a “mother
mould” that is then duplicated in 60 “daughter moulds”.
The porcelain clay, initially beige, is then poured inside. It is left there for 5 minutes, ensuring the fineness of the object, before the excess clay is removed. Removed from the moulds, the bottle holders harden in a heated chamber. Irregularities are eliminated with a brush and sponge. After being fired twice in a row, at over 1000°C, the pieces acquire their definitive size and their immaculate whiteness.
The porcelain biscuit is neither glazed nor varnished, giving it anexquisitely authentic rough matt finis.