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The PFV group of wine families, including owners of Mouton Rothschild, Vega Sicilia and Sassicaia, has awarded its family business prize to Maison Bernard
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Brussels, Apr 17 (EFE).- The renowned luthier workshop Maison Bernard in Brussels has preserved a traditional approach to string instrument artisanship and restoration that has little changed since it first opened its doors in 1868, when Belgium was but a fledgling nation.
This commitment to preserving culture and tradition earned the family-run business a prestigious Family is Sustainability award from the Primum Familiae Vini (PFV) association this year, which is worth 100,000 euros.
The PFV is a consortium of 12 prominent family names European wine-making.
Jan and Matthijs Strick, the father and son managers of Maison Bernard, work on the instruments, some of which are hundreds of years old, with hand-held chisels, polish and rasps.
Perched on the slopes of the red rocky mountains of the Estérel, in the village of Théoule-sur-Mer, a village on the French Riviera of about 1,500 inhabitants, ‘le Palais Bulles’ aka the Bubble Palace stands its pink curvaceous rooms surrounded by maritime pines and palm trees, with panoramic views of the Mediterranean Sea.
The house is for sale – and has been for quite a while – for a rumoured whopping €350 million (about R6.2 billion), according to the Smith Journal – although the real estate agency in charge of selling the property listed it under “price upon request”. The property comprises 1,200 square metres of rooms shaped in the form of bubbles, water ponds and waterfalls, an infinity pool, and even a 500-person open-air amphitheatre, all atop of over 8,500 square metres of land.