Laguiole Goyon-Chazeau: a certificate for your knife
We examine your knife and enter it into the A.I.P.C.L., even if you bought it elsewhere
Videos about this forge
We visit the workshops ourselves and show how the work is done. One click opens the video on YouTube.
You own a knife by Laguiole Goyon-Chazeau but did not buy it at original-laguiole.de? You can still have it entered into the A.I.P.C.L. A genuine knife from this forge stays a genuine knife, whichever counter it crossed.
Who is Laguiole Goyon-Chazeau?
Goyon-Chazeau stands for competence with style and reliability. Knives from this forge are often the way into good Laguiole work: they offer clean mechanics, good materials and solid making that is concerned not only with beauty but with use. Anyone choosing a Goyon-Chazeau gets a knife that combines practical performance with French flair.
What we look at on a knife by Laguiole Goyon-Chazeau
Every forge has its signature. With Laguiole Goyon-Chazeau it is the clean mechanics and solid making that make this house a good way into fine Laguiole work. That is exactly what allows a knife to be identified, and it is what we examine in your photographs. If a question remains, we go to the forge itself.
A portrait of the forge
In 1953 Gabriel Goyon and Solange Chazeau founded their firm in Thiers. From the outset the quality of the individual knife came before everything else, and that stance has carried the business through the decades. Today Magali and Vincent Goyon run it in the third generation; she is responsible for design, communication and marketing, he for production and technical development. The principle is simple: to innovate not in spite of tradition but through it.
The house commands two of the best known French knife traditions. In 1992 its own Laguiole collection appeared, and three years later came Le Thiers, the mark of the town of Thiers, which Goyon-Chazeau created together with other cutlers of the region. The first Le Thiers in history came out of these workshops. For the skill behind it the firm carries the state label Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant, which few French cutlers are allowed to display.
Three separate brands live under one roof. Laguiole G-C for the classic Laguiole knives, Le Thiers for the regional Thiers tradition, and Styl'ver for contemporary, restrained table cutlery. Each has its own handwriting and its own following; together they show the range of a house that has been working in Thiers for more than seventy years.
More about this forge
How it works
You order the examination. In the original-laguiole.de shop, for 10.00 euros, like a product. Then you upload photographs of your knife in your customer account: open and closed, the bee, the spine, the blade with the forge mark, and if available the receipt or packaging.
We examine it. We compare your knife with what we know from 30 years of trading with French forges, and when in doubt we ask the forge itself.
You get the result. If your knife is genuine it receives its own number, its page on aipcl.com and the certificate as a PDF. If it is not, we tell you that too.
What it costs
10.00 eurosExamining and registering one knife costs 10.00 euros.
If the examination shows that your knife does not come from a French forge, we refund the amount, of course. You pay only for a certificate you actually receive.
The examination is ordered in the original-laguiole.de shop. With the purchase you buy the examination, not the certificate; whether we issue it depends on the result of examining your photographs.
Order the examination (10.00 euros)