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L'Or de Vie La Crème - Métiers d'Art Limited Edition Face and neck cream - skincare masterpiece

1.7 oz$6,000.00

An absolute cosmetic masterpiece and a gem of longevity, L'Or de Vie La Crème is reinvented in the hands of Xavier Le Normand, a trained artist and jeweler, as part of a unique collaboration at Dior: artwork in the form of a bottle is brought to life, limited to 130 numbered editions. This singular collaboration between the worlds of art and beauty gives rise to this exceptional piece of art, to turn the miracle of L'Or de Vie into a true treasure.

Xavier Le Normand blows and sculpts glass; this alchemical substance produced through fusion fascinates him. For the Métiers d’Art limited edition, he recounts the discovery of a new narrative: that of the legendary Château d’Yquem, and makes this precious nectar with golden facets his muse to transcend the idea of eternal beauty. In a dance of meticulously choreographed and precise expert techniques, each bottle is hot blown, sculpted, polished, set and carved.


The sculpture becomes a jewel in a nearly 8-hour process as the 1,500 dots are engraved by hand one by one on the bottle, in a metaphor of the bunches of Yquem grapes that the artist has transcribed on this glass piece with rounded lines.

L’OR DE VIE LA CRÈME MÉTIERS D'ART LIMITED EDITION: THE ULTIMATE MASTERPIECE

The House of Dior honors the art and savoir-faire of glass in an ultra-limited edition of 130 pieces, numbered and handcrafted by artist Xavier Le Normand. A bottle as a work of art created from the fusion of water and flames, blown hot and sculpted cold for over 8 hours. A remarkable convergence of the world of art and the miracle of L’Or de Vie.

    XAVIER LE NORMAND BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO THE MIRACLE OF L’OR DE VIE

    “I wanted to create an extremely pure bottle. Every little dot is like a precious gem. I wanted to embody the spirit of a cluster of grapes and the overwhelming grandeur of the cosmos, the earthly and the extraterrestrial, the infinitely large and the infinitely small, the raw work of the soil and the vine, the supreme refinement of the Château d’Yquem and its ambrosial L’Or de Vie.” Xavier Le Normand

    A JEWEL OF GLASS AND LIGHT

    • Xavier Le Normand challenged himself to elevate savoir-faire into art. Through a series of painstaking motions, the artist explored shape and enhanced light until transparency was achieved. Time imposed its rhythm on the creative process, and it took several months to define and perfect the lines of this exceptional bottle. Each bottle required several steps – from stone cutting to polishing, setting to carving – to come alive after two days and one night.

     

      • 01PREPARE
      • 02REPAIR
      • 03REGENERATE