Ofmouth takes over and beyond the borders

OUR CORRESPONDENT IN MARSEILLE.

With its holes t-shirt, his beard for three days, calleuses hands and summary construction of concrete blocks and (d) ' éverite which houses his workshop in the campaign of Manosque, Yves Romoli has gained the trust of dozens of Presidents, princes, sultans, Kings, ambassadors and billionaires. Envied know-how is embroidery yarns of wood as once the floor of the Palace of Versailles. "Of haute couture chipped in the most beautiful species", summarizes l ' artisan. Its catalogue includes soils of the most beautiful houses of the world as his father (died l ' last year) and he has made since the 1960s: shows private l ' former Turkish President Süleyman Demirel, the apartments of the chef d ' State Egyptian Hosni Mubarak, the yacht of the sultan d ' Oman, Qaboos Bin Said, the residence d ' Hassan II, the dining room of the cruise ship "Queen Mary II"...

"I seek glory or recognition, but noble orders that sublimate the ultimate accuracy", explains the "parqueteur of the princes" flipping the book d ' or l ' institution. On one metre square and on thousands, its mosaic s wooden parts ' adjust to the hundredth of a millimetre. "J ' took the best of my parents to achieve this result: l ' artistic intelligence of my father, son d ' Tuscan cabinetmaker, and the ability to work from my mother, high rough in Abruzzo", summarizes l ' artisan. Manufacturing (d) ' parquet floor begins with the choice and preparation of wood, selected hard species for the fineness of their grain, the beauty of their veins, their moisture stability and their mosaic of colours: deep purple oak, bright orange of badi, amazing honey of l ' amaranth, bright red of bubinga, Brown bistre l ' amazakoué... 15 D ' species in total provided by a handful of sawmills that crack the wood "l ' former" to deliver "a straight and stable fibre variant more than l ' thickness of the marquetry". To work the raw material, or cutting laser or jet d ' water: s ' installing in the village of Pierrevert in the Alpes, father, Gino Romoli, has been manufacturing custom several work stations with carbide blades very precisely scimitar. Yves Romoli employs three workers whose training requires at least a dozen d ' years. "L ' learning occurs as the century of the who, with patience, perseverance and humility."

Need these qualities and much d ' other drawing, cutting and assembling for example 11.800 pieces of this lace of wood in the shape of rosette of 3 metres on 3 or do not get lost in the optical maze of Oriental reasons. When the forms are not linear, l ' artisan exhibits drawers a small saw marqueter. Play after play, he cut and resulted the metres of scrolls and d ' arabesques. Gino was sacred best worker of France in 1979. A fifty-five years, his son prepares the competition. "My father was rehabilitated on the later a know-how disappeared after having worked as a cabinetmaker to the marseillaise bourgeoisie, says.". (D) restoration of an old cruise ship provided the spark. At the age of forty, all left to start his professional life.

Equipped with his Cape d ' cabinetmaker, the young son learns on the job renovating floors of beautiful homes and old castles, coast. After the second oil shock, the local market dry up. Yves reacts with family creations in trade shows and won his first site of prestige in the Grouse Swiss resort of Crans - Montana. -Of-mouth takes over and beyond the borders.

From 1987, Earth Deco s ' hand d is pulling ' the Romoli goldsmiths. On the Internet, l ' now offers customization of soils with the creation of original mosaic floors into designs, or choose from hundreds of basic models to compose at your leisure in the interactive showroom for about 500 euros per square metre. "With the growing number of fortunes, we had to adapt to l ' inflation of the application by creating standards that combine crafts know-how and l ' industrialization of the process", justifies Yves Romoli. A concession without prejudice: its order book is full for several months.