Meilleur Ouvrier de France

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Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France is a craftsmen competition in France, held every four years.

The title of Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (shortened to MOF) is a unique and prestigious award in France according to category of trades in a contest among professionals. This contest is organized and recognized as a third-level degree by the French Ministry of Labour. The President of the French Republic is granted honorary membership with the title MOF honoris causa. The awarding of medals occurs at the Sorbonne, in Paris, during a large reunion followed by a ceremony at the Élysée in the presence of the President of the French Republic.

This award for special abilities is unique in the world. Created in 1924, initially between the best workers of the era aged 23 and over, this contest was given the title of Un Des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (One of the Best Craftsmen of France). Today, by the diversity of specialities, the list of which is regularly updated, the award has also been awarded to more modern trades and high technology fields.

In this competition, the candidate is given a certain amount of time and basic materials not only to create a masterpiece, but to do so with a goal of approaching perfection. The chosen method, the organization, the act, the speed, the knowhow and the respect for the rules of the trade are verified by a jury just as much as is the final result. The winning candidates retain their title for life, with the indication of the specialty, the year following the one in which they obtain the title. This prestigious title is equally recognized by professionals and the greater public in France, particularly among artisan-merchants such as pastrymakers, hairdressers, butchers, jewelers, and others whose trades are recognized, particularly those for more luxurious goods.

This competition requires months, sometimes years, of preparation. Technical skills, innovation, respect for traditions and other aspects are all practiced repeatedly to a level of refinement and excellence, effectiveness and quickness to succeed and be crowned by the jury, which makes its decision according to the distribution of points awarded during the entire process.

List of skills

Hospitality

Buildings

  • Wood carpentry
  • Metallic ornaments and coverings
  • Woodwork
  • Painting and paint decoration
  • Plumbing, installation of sanitary works, etc.
  • Stonemasonry
  • Cementworks
  • Locksmithing and metalworking
  • Climate engineering
  • Stove fittings
  • Artisanal ironwork
  • Glasses and mirrors
  • Decorative sculptures
  • Engravings
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Plasterworks
  • Masonry
  • Mosaics
  • Glassworks
  • Marbleworks
  • Scale models (architecture)

Clothing accessories

  • Lace and hand embroidery
  • Corsets, bras, lingerie
  • Tailoring

Beauty and aesthetics

  • Men's hairstyling
  • Women's hairstyling
  • Aesthetic body hygiene

Textile industries

Home decoration

  • Cabinetmaking
  • Woodworking for seats
  • Wood turners and benders
  • Wood sculptures
  • Luthiery
  • Tapestries - weavers
  • Tapestries - decorators
  • Wood gilding
  • Framing
  • Marquetry
  • Cooperage
  • Wickerwork

Metallic Structures

Industries

  • General mechanics
  • Electrical equipment and installation
  • Foundry - tool construction
  • Soldering
  • Blacksmithing
  • Composite materials

Precision Techniques

Synthetic materials arts and techniques

  • Plasticworks

Leathers and Skins

  • Laboratory technicians, taxidermy
  • Trappings
  • Shoes
  • Traveling articles, leatherworking

Ceramics and glassworks

  • Glass and crystals
  • Stained glass windows
  • Santons
  • Glassblowing
  • Ceramic restoration

Graphic arts and trades

  • Advertising graphics
  • Printing
  • Photography
  • Photography (laboratory)
  • Silkscreen printing
  • Creation of typographic characters
  • Bookbinding

Artistic Metalworks

  • Jewellery (jewels)
  • Creation of jewellery with precious metals
  • Diamondworking
  • Steel engraving
  • Copper and steel graving (for printing)
  • Heraldic and jewel engraving
  • Luminous bronzework

Flowers and countryside

  • Florist
  • Gardening (artisanal)

The most celebrated M.O.F winners

  • Joël Robuchon (MOF 1976)
  • Olivier Bajard (Métier de bouche)
  • Paul Bocuse (Métier de bouche)
  • Matthieu Miossec (Métier de bouche)
  • Laurent Dassont (Métier de bouche)
  • Pascal Caffet (Métier de bouche)
  • René Fontaine (1946-...) : Master chocolatier, MOF 1976. (Métier de bouche)
  • Yves Thuriès (Métier de bouche)
  • Roger Vergé (Métier de bouche)
  • Dominique Laporte (2004)(Métier de bouche-Sommelier)
  • Jacques Torres
  • Alain Fabregues (MOF 1991)
  • Michel Roux (MOF 1976)

Many members of the Compagnons du Devoir are also M.O.F.

See also

  • Kings of Pastry, a 2009 documentary film about the M.O.F. pastrymaking competition

External links

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