{"id":63105,"date":"2026-05-10T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/63105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:48:08","slug":"behind-the-scenes-making-of-the-cannes-palme-dor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/63105\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes: Making of the Cannes Palme d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Palme d\u2019Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, takes more than 70 hours of meticulous craftsmanship to produce at Swiss jeweler Chopard\u2019s workshops outside Geneva. Since its creation in 1955, the Palme d\u2019Or has constantly evolved. Its current form was conceived in 1998 by Caroline Scheufele, co-president of Chopard.<\/p>\n

The luxury watchmaking and jewelry house makes all the trophies awarded by the jury during the world\u2019s most prestigious film festival, which takes over Cannes on the southwest French coast, this year from May 12 to 23. \u201cWhat we brought to the table, which is very different from the original, is that the stem of the Palme d\u2019Or ends in a small heart shape, which is a bit of a nod to cinema, the love for cinema,\u201d Scheufele told AFP, adding that she designs \u201ca lot of jewelry with hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n

At the workshop in Meyrin, a Geneva suburb on the French border, creating the Palme d\u2019Or begins with the casting technique. This involves creating a model of the stem with its leaves in wax within a rubber mold, which is then immersed in liquid plaster. The plaster is heated to 760C, causing the wax to melt away, leaving an impression into which molten metal is injected.<\/p>\n

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Swiss Jeweller’s Chopard co-president and artistic director Caroline Scheufele poses with the Palme d’Or trophy, at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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This photograph shows Fairmined-certified gold granules destined to be melted down at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops in Meyrin, near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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An artisan uses a blowtorch to heat a Palme d’Or during a reenactment of the creation of the Palme d’Or, at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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This photograph shows a freshly cast gold ingot cooling in water, at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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An artisan prepares a sandblasting operation, during a reenactment of the creation of the Palme d’Or, crafted using the traditional lost-wax casting technique, at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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An artisan injects blue wax into a rubber mold during a reenactment of the creation of the Palme d’Or, crafted using the traditional lost-wax casting technique, at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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An artisan polishes a Palme d’Or during a reenactment of the creation of the Palme d’Or, at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva.<\/p>\n

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The Palme d’Or trophy is photographed at Chopard’s high-jewelry workshops.<\/p>\n

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This photograph shows a sign of Swiss manufacturer and retailer of watches, jewellery and accessories Chopard at its high-jewelry workshops, in Meyrin near Geneva,.<\/p>\n

Once solidified, the piece is extracted by dissolving the mold, then cleaned and treated to remove any impurities. Next comes the assembly. The various parts are reworked, hand-polished, and carefully attached: each gold leaf is fitted and soldered onto the stem. After a final polish, the Palme d\u2019Or is mounted on a precisely-drilled rock crystal cushion and then secured, creating a display-ready piece.<\/p>\n

The Palme d\u2019Or is made of 118 grammes of yellow gold which rests on the crystal cushion, shaped like an emerald-cut diamond. \u201cThe appeal of rock crystal is that… the base is always slightly different, so each year the Palme d\u2019Or has a slightly different look,\u201d said Scheufele. Chopard makes two Palme d\u2019Or awards for Cannes each year — in case of a tie or unforeseen circumstances.<\/p>\n

The prize goes to the director of the best feature film. Chaired by South Korean director Park Chan-wook, the festival jury will award this Palme d\u2019Or on May 23, at the end of the Cannes fortnight. Last year, the award went to \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d by dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Previous winning filmmakers include Luis Bunuel, Jane Campion, Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola, Akira Kurosawa, Emir Kusturica, David Lean, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Orson Welles. – AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Palme d\u2019Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, takes more than 70 hours of meticulous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34566,34567,65,14507,14506,14256,34568],"class_list":{"0":"post-63105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-behind-the-scenes","9":"tag-cannes","10":"tag-geneva","11":"tag-kuwait-news","12":"tag-kuwait-times","13":"tag-making","14":"tag-palme-dor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116552722362651559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}