A family adventure...

It all began with Charles and Pierre Castanier. During a round of golf, the latter met a cutler who told him he was having trouble sourcing horns. The two brothers, back from West Africa, decided to take the plunge, importing a few crates of zebu horns. They named the business Mercorne: horns that cross the sea, but also a nod to Saint Flour de Mercoire, the village in which they had settled their French life. The two founders have always been very supportive of our development projects.

The family has always supported this adventure. Martial came to Mercorne's rescue, Chloé gave us the benefit of her immense skills with as much patience and gentleness as ever, not forgetting Julie, Clément, Henri, René ... under the wise and always encouraging eye of the doyenne of the Castanier family, my grandmother.

And now there's Benoît, my partner in adventure and life for the past 6 years, without whom it would have been difficult to continue.