• The distillation of eaux de vie into liqueurs began in Hendaye in the seventeenth century. But the real industrial start came in 1900 with the creation of Izarra in 1904.
  • In 1929, Établissements Gérard-Becuwe was manufacturing enamelled cast-iron stoves, ovens, cookers, baths and even electric irons. They had a foundry at Signy-Le-Petit in the Ardennes, another at Soissons in the Aisne and a mechanical workshop near Dieppe.
  • Project for the Green Cross oil in Bordeaux.
  • Toothpaste and hygienic toothbrush by the brand Nectol manufactured in Lucca, Italy by D. Fiorini & Co.
  • This sketch was made for the famous fashion store: E. A. Mele & Ci in Naples.
  • Pâtes Lustucru In 1871, Louis Cartier-Millon purchased a workshop in Grenoble that had been producing pasta since 1824. By 1900, local demand required the creation of a new factory. At that time, pasta was sold in bulk and unbranded. To grow the business, the Cartier-Millon family decided to focus on branding and packaging. In 1910, they had to build a new factory. In 1911, following a poster competition won by the illustrator Synave, the light and dark blue checkerboard pattern was born. At the closing banquet of this competition, Jean-Louis Forain sang the nursery rhyme "C'est la mère Michel"... with Père Lustucru. This marked the birth of the brand.
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