Where do you truly come from? Stéphane LAURENT asks his interlocutors this question from the very first exchanges. The answer reveals everything about the way a person stands in the world.
What the hands transmit
Not the address or the country. But the hands that shaped your own. The silences that were passed down. The knowledge that reached you without ever being named.
Most people pause before this question. The age has gradually discouraged this glance backwards, as though knowing one’s roots would slow the forward motion. The opposite is true. Those who know where they come from move with greater solidity.
To inherit is to understand what was done before oneself, to inhabit it, then to surpass it. In an atelier, savoir-faire lives in the bodies. The way a hand holds the scissors. The pressure on the pencil. These things pass from person to person, in the silence of the work.
« Transmitting is choosing what deserves to last. »
Africa, at the beginning
Humanity began in Africa. This anthropological truth is rarely looked at directly. We are all heirs to an ancient civilisation born on that continent, whatever our personal origin may be.
Carrying this heritage with awareness gives a depth that other paths grant only with difficulty. Refinement far precedes the European courts of the eighteenth century. It is universal, millennial, and bears faces that official history has long left in the shadows.
What the House transmits
The House of MONSIEUR STEPHANE LAURENT inscribes itself within this continuity. Out of conviction that ancestral techniques carry an intelligence of material, of the body, and of time.
The pieces are conceived to endure. To be transmitted. To tell, twenty years from now, something of the person who wore them.
Stéphane LAURENT—Founder, MONSIEUR STEPHANE LAURENT