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Orfèvre du bain
Trades, Skills, And Traditions
Know-how, precision, and flexibility are key skills for those in the Volevatch workshops. Each craftsperson plays a crucial role in the design of our objects. This teamwork is allied to a quest for perfection.
The Tully workshops employ around fifty craftsmen in several different trades, but they all complement each other. These professions include sculptors, engravers, welders, lathe-operators, millers, benders, assembly-workers, polishers, foundrymen, quality controllers, order-preparation workers or even stockkeepers. Their common point is an ability to know how to react to any situation, coupled with flexibility and adaptation. Adaptation to specific customer expectations and adaptation according to the standards set out in the country where the object we produce will be installed. Whether it be positions, heights, curves, shapes, spouts, deck mountings, overhangs, connectors, or other filtering systems for faucets, everything can be worked out and designed according to a customer’s specification.
Dexterity and precision
In our workshops all the work is done by hand.
Dexterity, attention to detail and delicacy are required for safe, precise, and impeccable movements. From the first sketch prepared by our designer-sculptor on wood to the polishing stage using sandpaper, precision is an essential factor. The same rules apply when an engraver combines shading and relief to create an effect. And when a technician combines two parts, they must match perfectly. This quest for perfection even applies to our packaging, where black tissue paper protects each of our creations when placed in a perfectly-sized white box ready for delivery.
Another notion of time
Tradition, know-how passed down and passion sum up the mindset in the Tully workshops. With, always in the background, the notion of time passing. This is firstly because some creations require up to sixty hours of work for our designer-sculptor alone. But also, because we have an intimate knowledge of, and can repair, restore, and care for each piece ever made, more or less for ever, thanks to a dynamic and responsive after-sales service. This is another idea of luxury which lasts, endures, and plays a role in the daily life of many generations.
"Only the craftsman’s eye is able to judge whether a piece is finished."