Copper Connection
For Mauviel’s Valérie Le Guern Gilbert, maintaining the traditions of a nearly 200-year-old company with an eye to the future is a delicate balance.
“When you work in a family business, you are just one generation in the middle of the story,” says Gilbert, the first woman in seven generations to run the esteemed French cookware company. So when it came time to celebrate the company’s 190th anniversary, Gilbert made sure that Mauviel’s 19-piece commemorative copper cookware set, “Ernst,” named for Mauviel’s founder, told a story bridging the 19th and 21st centuries.