With its brand new video series, ARTI’TEACH by ARCHES®, the Arches paper mill offers you the chance to delve into the secrets of its famous papers.
In these videos our presenter, Céline Petit-phar, will be talking to you about our papers with all the
enthusiasm and desire to share her passion for art that characterise her.
Why number 88? 88, which we find in the watermark of this ARCHES® art publishing…
What does the acronym BFK (Rives) stand for?
A small family concern created in 1787 in Rives, in the French Department of Isère, the Blanchet de Rives paper mill became Blanchet Frères & Kléber in 1820 when brothers Augustin and Victor Blanchet joined forces with Jean-Antoine Didier Kléber.
Among the ARCHES® employees who make our fine art and printing papers, there are some who are also artists themselves! One of them is Sandrine Parisot, who works in the converting shops and whom we have interviewed.
Zeng Tianfu, who as an artist would go under the name T’ang Haywen, was born on 20 December 1927 in Xiamen in Fujian province, China. He arrived in France in 1948 and was one of the second generation of Chinese artists who emigrated there after the Second World War.
Vera Billing is a Swedish watercolour artist who draws her inspiration from the nature and more particularly the flora. Her special devotion for plant life goes back to her childhood…
