Laguiole Philippe Voissière: 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 Philippe Voissière 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 Philippe Voissière?
In the workshop of Philippe Voissière traditional Laguiole technique meets a clear personal signature: organic shapes, selected materials and restrained but deliberate decoration. His knives are recognisable by their natural lines, their judged weight and a finish that is neither overloaded nor plain. A quiet mastery, recognised by the hands that do not merely use a knife but value it.
What we look at on a knife by Laguiole Philippe Voissière
Every forge has its signature. With Laguiole Philippe Voissière it is the organic shapes, the restrained but deliberate decoration and the finish particular to this workshop. 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 the workshop of Philippe Voissière the inherited Laguiole technique meets a clearly recognisable personal hand. The shapes are organic, the materials selected, the decoration sparing and placed with intent. Nothing looks overloaded, and nothing looks arbitrary either. It is a quiet mastery, noticed above all in the hand and less in a photograph.
The range shows how far that approach carries. Alongside the filed bee and the double platines there are damascus blades, the plein edition without spring decoration, and a series of the workshop's own editions including Le Thiers, Le Laguiole, History, Les Sculpté and Licorne. Each series has its own character without leaving the shared handwriting behind.
Philippe Voissière is one of the houses on which the A.I.P.C.L. concept rests. For a knife made in small numbers the entry with number, date and owner is particularly valuable, because once it is missing it can no longer be reconstructed.
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)