The Laguiole Way of Life
Once a year, people from all over the world send original-laguiole.de photographs of their Laguiole knives in everyday life. The finest reach the final, and every finalist is given a knife.
Those knives are donated by the forges. They get nothing for it; they do it for the community. Here are their names, year by year.
We are deeply grateful to them. Without the forges there would be no competition at all - every donated knife is a gesture towards the community, and not one of them is a matter of course.
Who can take part
Since 2025 anyone with an account can take part - here on aipcl.com or on original-laguiole.de. It is the same account: whoever signs up here gets in there with the same details.
Why there are no photographs here
We deliberately do not show the participants' photographs here: they belong to the people who took them and were sent to the shop for its competition. Each year takes you to the photographs and posts in the OLC.
What is the OLC?
The OLC is the Original-Laguiole-Community, the meeting place of Laguiole collectors on original-laguiole.de. New editions and their names are born there, and so are the games, the get-togethers and this photo competition. Anyone may read; to write you need an account - the same account as here.
2025
These forges donated knives for the winning photographs
These forges spread the word
- Claude Dozorme
- Goyon-Chazeau
From the knife world
- @cintage
- @derMessernarr
- @Haddl's Welt
- @rule_number_9
2024
These forges donated knives for the winning photographs
Goyon-Chazeau
3 of 3 years
Arbalete G. David
2 of 3 years
Claude Dozorme
3 of 3 years
Fontenille Pataud
2 of 3 years
Laguiole du Barry
3 of 3 years
Laguiole en Aubrac
3 of 3 years
Laguiole Honoré Durand
3 of 3 years
Le Fidele
3 of 3 years
David Dauvillaire
3 of 3 years
Jean-Michel Cayron
2 of 3 years
2023
These forges donated knives for the winning photographs
Arbalete G. David
2 of 3 years
Claude Dozorme
3 of 3 years
David Dauvillaire
3 of 3 years
Fontenille Pataud
2 of 3 years
Goyon-Chazeau
3 of 3 years
Jean-Michel Cayron
2 of 3 years
Laguiole du Barry
3 of 3 years
Laguiole en Aubrac
3 of 3 years
Laguiole Honoré Durand
3 of 3 years
Le Fidele
3 of 3 years
The competition itself
The Laguiole Way of Life is run by original-laguiole.de. There you will find the terms, every photograph and the videos in which each picture is presented.
Does your Laguiole not have an A.I.P.C.L. certificate of authenticity yet?
You can have it registered afterwards, no matter where you bought the knife. We check from your photographs whether it really comes from a French forge, assign it to that forge and register it under its own number. Your knife then has the same page and the same document as any knife bought from us.
The examination costs 10.00 euros. If the result is negative, we refund it.
or 15 CARMOS points from original-laguiole.de - what those are is explained there.