Laguiole en Aubrac

Laguiole (pronounced roughly "la-yol" locally) is not just Laguiole. Most people recognise the iconic knives with the very distinctive blade profile and the fly emblem, "La mouche", on the spine. What may be less clear to many is that "Laguiole" is not a trademark. Laguiole is a village in the Aveyron region, but internationally the name has become synonymous with the well-known steak knives.

Laguiole en Aubrac is a very special workshop that is close to our hearts. Everything is made locally, because unlike many other makers they have their own forge and sawmill, and they only use subcontractors for the raw materials that, for good reasons, are not available locally.

Whatever you might fall in love with from Laguiole en Aubrac, you can be completely sure that what you hold in your hands is genuine craftsmanship. Every handle is shaped freehand and every engraving is cut by hand, which may seem surprising when the quality is top class time after time. We have visited many times, and it is just as charming every time to see that this kind of manual craftsmanship is still alive and well.

And you are never really in doubt whether you are holding a knife from Laguiole en Aubrac or from another maker, because only the best raw materials are used. Especially when it comes to the very fine woods, few others can keep up.

But Laguiole en Aubrac is much more than steak knives. They make, for example, the fantastic corkscrew Sommelier, and they have two particularly skilled craftsmen who make some of the most beautiful folding knives we have ever seen. This is also the heritage on which the whole Laguiole wave was built, and Laguiole en Aubrac makes it a priority to keep it alive.