GROUPE XYLOS (1980) Hand Chased bronze door handle H: 18; L: 9; W: 6 cm "Our home entrance door handle hides a clever mechanism to secure the house or to give it free access. "The hand is the first link between my life and yours" Khetra Chakor. That's how we've always welcomed people into our homes... We've always cultivated a warm welcome! A hand magnificently chiselled in bronze, a material that resists corrosion and ageing, a symbol of eternity and permanence... isn't it also the image of the wonderful relationship that we had and that will remain between the Xylos artists and us? ("To fall, you have to manage alone, but to get up again, you need the hand of a friend" Yiddish proverb)." Marie-Claire B.

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