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Dec 14, 2020 · Le Creuset was founded in 1925 by Belgian artisans Armand Desaegher, a metal casting expert, and Octave Aubecq, a specialist in the process of enameling, with the goal of bringing something new to a sea of functional-but-uninspiring gray and black cookware that was the standard of the Western hemisphere (via Le Creuset).
Le Creuset was founded in Fresnoy-le-Grand, Aisne, Picardy at the crossroads of transportation routes for iron, coke, and sand. Armand De Saegher (a Belgian casting specialist) and Octave Aubecq (a Belgian enamelling specialist) opened the foundry in 1925.
At the 1924 Brussels Fair, Armand Desaegher and Octave Aubecq met and decided to work together to create a cooking pot made with cast iron and enamel. Le Creuset's products are made of 15 % pig...
Dec 24, 2021 · In 1925, two Frenchmen, Armand Desaegher, a casting specialist, and Octave Aubecq, an enameling expert, took the Dutch oven and gave it an enamel glaze, thus birthing Le Creuset’s flagship item — and the brand itself later that year in the town of Fresnoy-le-Grand.
Feb 2, 2016 · It all began when casting expert Armand Desaegher and enameling whiz Octave Aubecq got together to improve the heft of cast iron cookware with the grace of porcelain glaze. Fans of raw cast...
Dec 11, 2015 · Le Creuset itself must have been something of a beacon when it first appeared in French shops and department stores, the brainchild of two Belgian industrialists, Armand Desaegher and Octave...
Le Creuset was founded in Fresnoy-le-Grand, France, in 1925. Industrialists Armand Desaegher and Octave Aubecq took a tough-love approach to cookware, insisting that it be made to the highest standard — even if that meant heating the iron to the unheard-of temperature of 2,862°C before moulding it.
