Saint-Ouen and Paris, France
These classes of 14 and 15-year-olds in the Île-de-France region, at the Michelet professional high school in Saint-Ouen, and Staël high school in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, have neither maths nor French lessons today. Benjamin, Emmanuelle and Diane, saddler-leatherworkers, have come to their classrooms to convey “the pleasure of doing and sharing”. By meeting these craftsmen, who share their passion with students aged 9 to 16 as part of the Manufacto programme initiated by the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, a new lesson was learned: that you can make your life by making objects.
