Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship is an international non-profit entity that celebrates and preserves master craftsmanship and strengthens its connection to the world of design.

Gérard Desquand is an engraver, making heraldic work.
Grandchild of engravers, Gérad Desquand is one of the rare specialist of heraldry in France. Besides his successful activity of engraver, he has been teaching engraving at Ecole Estienne for many years and he is engaged in the mission of transmitting the know how he inherited and practice. Gérard Desquand lives and works in Paris.

Photographs in this gallery are made by Sanna Pozzoli/copyright Michelangelo Foundation