Académie des savoir-faire: Paper

Since 2014, the Académie des savoir-faire has brought together professionals every two years to collectively explore a universal material across disciplines, combining innovation, experimentation, and eco-responsibility.

For its seventh edition, dedicated to paper in 2025, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès aims to highlight this major invention, which originated in China centuries before our era. 

Combining lightness and strength, functionality and aesthetics, paper remains a vital material for communication and creativity. Its abundant production reflects a wealth of craftsmanship and traditions. Both a challenge and a solution, paper lies at the heart of key contemporary issues such as recycling, resource management and ecological transition.

Throughout 2025, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is hosting a series of events exploring the theme of paper.

On Saturday 14 June 2025, join Joseph Belletante, director of the Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique, for the morning session Ink and Light at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris 10ᵉ.

Programme:

• 9:00 – THE ART OF PRINTING IN THE WEST: A HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONS
  Joseph Belletante, Chief Heritage Curator, Director of the Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique, Lyon
• 10:00 – THE PRINTER’S CRAFT
  Mélody Maby-Przedborski, Development and Communications Director, Imprimerie du Marais
  Louise Le Moan, Communications and Events Manager, Imprimerie du Marais
• 10:45 – BREAK
• 11:15 – A HISTORY OF PAPERS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY… AND PAPER IN PHOTOGRAPHY
  Clément Chéroux, Photography Historian, Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris
• 12:10 – THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED
  Excerpt from the film by Lotte Reiniger, 1926 All rights reserved © BFI
• 12:15 – IN THE CONTAINER
  Lomig Perrotin, the smallest photographic paper manufacturer
• 12:40 – CLOSING REMARKS
  Olivier Fournier, President of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
  Constance Guisset, Guest Designer, Academic Director of the Académie des savoir-faire – Paper edition
• 12:50 – A PAPER ORCHESTRA
  Max Vandervorst, wild luthier

Click here to register for the morning session!