Press
Stories of what is passed on.
Presentation, verified facts, archives and contacts: the essential material for preparing an article, interview or feature about L’Édifice Éternel.
Ready-to-use presentation
L’Édifice Éternel brings together a collection of exceptional instruments, a practice of creation and a work of transmission, between France and Israel. Instruments from the collection are lent to musicians, maintained, and accompanied by encounters with audiences. The project draws in particular on the workshop of Alain Carbonare, master violin maker in Mirecourt since 1987.
Key facts
- Mission
- Bring instruments to life through loans, care, creation and encounters with audiences.
- Anchoring
- A project between France, Mirecourt and Israel, rooted in Jewish transmission and open to every audience.
- Founder
- Noam Semecas.
- Contact
- Interviews, information, archives and visuals: fondation@edifice-eternel.org.
Editorial angles
- 01
An instrument, a story, a new hand
From the violin played by Yehudi Menuhin in 1993 to instruments entrusted to artists today: following what heritage becomes when it keeps being played.
- 02
Mirecourt, hand and memory
Alain Carbonare’s career, his Mirecourt workshop, the Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume family house he saved and documented encounters with Menuhin, Spivakov and Rostropovich.
- 03
Transmission in Israel
Instrument loans, artist support and the Haifa story: when a family’s story meets a cultural mission.
Archives to explore
A selection of historical documents from Alain Carbonare’s career. Each reproduction opens in full; captions distinguish facts, dates and document type.
The press archives gathered on this site concern the career of violin maker Alain Carbonare and belong to him: they are not press coverage of L’Édifice Éternel.