Goyon-Chazeau

Forging a knife from a single piece, no attached handle, welding stainless steel onto a hollow handle, that's the Goyon-Chazeau signature. Not the easiest technique, but the one that gives the purest result.

It all starts in the 1950s, when Solange Chazeau and Gabriel Goyon work as subcontractors for major French silversmith houses. No brand of their own, no shop, just discreet know-how in the Thiers basin, France's cutlery capital.

In 1975, their son Denis formalizes the business: SARL Goyon-Chazeau is born. Denis isn't a manager, he's a blacksmith obsessed with a technique almost nobody masters: welding stainless steel onto hollow handles. A complex process that creates monobloc knives of particular elegance and solidity.

In 1992, Goyon-Chazeau launches the first entirely stainless steel Laguiole, no attached handle, everything forged and welded in one piece. Three years later, in 1995, the Confrérie du couteau de Thiers (the Jurande) validates their version of the forged Le Thiers® knife. Peer recognition.

Today, Magali Goyon-Chazeau represents the third generation. The workshop hasn't left La Monnerie Le Montel. The Beaune shop (2019) and workshop showroom (2020) opened the brand to the public, but the essence remains: knives forged in the Thiers basin, by a family that's been doing this for 70 years.

One important note: the EPV (Living Heritage Company) label has not been confirmed in official sources. The brand has sometimes been presented as EPV, but we found no formal verification.

Precious wood handles, juniper, ebony, violetwood, are selected and turned in the Thiers workshop. Each species brings its own texture, color and weight. It's not decoration: a good handle makes half the knife.