French for skilled artistic crafts, including disciplines such as embroidery, engraving and decorative metalwork.
The French term métiers d’art groups skilled trades in which people shape, restore or decorate materials through a combination of technical mastery and artistic judgement. An engraver cuts a pattern into metal, while a setter makes a stone secure within a jewel. The phrase also appears in a narrower context at CHANEL, which names a collection for the specialist workshops that contribute to it. The general craft vocabulary can describe a technique without identifying a particular house or collection.
In job listings
The phrase often appears in a house’s description of its specialist workshops. If a listing uses it, check whether the job is at the bench or describes the wider world in which the role is working. Search local jobs for “jewellery”.
