In short

From 2026, the permanent catalogue stays available year-round, with a tighter selection. Customisation becomes an appointment: two windows a year, one week each. The goal is simple — make room to design again, and keep making things the way we like to make them.

Key dates

• Current customisation period open until 11 May 2026
• First window of 2026: 14 to 20 September
• Second window: early 2027 (date to be confirmed)

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Why this change

The workshop is two people — Augustin and Chloé. Our production capacity is deliberately modest, and we want to keep it that way. But it doesn't tolerate everything.

Today, the catalogue offers five customisable razors, each available in several materials, finishes, gaps and comb types. Le Maurice alone has 672 possible configurations. Add leather sleeves on request, wooden handles and boxes, the premium polish that takes a full day per piece on titanium — and you get a workshop that spends its weeks configuring, finishing, shipping, repeating. No more time to design a razor properly, from start to finish. No more room to evolve what already exists.

Like a good restaurant, we'd rather have a short menu — the kind that tells you the cooking will be done properly — than a long list where half the dishes come out of the freezer.

What changes

The permanent catalogue

Four razors remain available to order year-round:

• La Faulx — single edge Artist Club
• Numéro 7 — double edge, with all its gaps
• Horizon — adjustable single edge AC
• Le Maurice — double edge, in a single version (see below)

On La Faulx, the Horizon and the Numéro 7, we're stepping back from bronze, copper and the premium polish on a daily basis. These are the options that consume the most workshop time and disrupt the rest of production. The technical range stays intact: every gap on the Numéro 7, and the Horizon's full adjustable nature naturally preserved. What gets concentrated is the breadth of materials and finishes.

Le Maurice: one version on a daily basis

Le Maurice is our flagship model, named after Augustin's grandfather. Its design is unique: its blade exposure stays constant whatever the gap, which gives it that recognisable progressive smoothness. But that same particularity also makes it less versatile and harder to recommend — it suits a narrower range of skin types.

With its 672 variants, it had also become a real weight to maintain day to day. It remains available year-round in a single configuration: version 1.0, raw-machined stainless steel, smooth comb. The most-sold, the safest, the most representative of what it is. For its other variants, that'll be during the customisation windows.

The Vestige leaves the catalogue

The Vestige never really found its place in our sales. It's mechanically more delicate to produce than the other models, and it was taking up workshop space we'd rather give back to something else. Production stops, the plates won't be remade.

For those who wanted one for their collection, the current period — until 11 May 2026 — is the last opportunity. After that date, the Vestige will no longer be available to order, and it won't return during the customisation windows either.

The customisation windows

Twice a year, for one week, the full range of our craft becomes available again — on the four razors of the permanent catalogue only (the Vestige remains permanently discontinued):

• All materials: stainless steel, titanium, bronze, copper
• All finishes: machined, sandblasted, basic polish, premium polish, medieval
• Le Maurice, La Faulx, the Numéro 7 and the Horizon in all their variants
• Leather sleeves on request, customisable wooden boxes
• Every option set aside from the permanent catalogue the rest of the year

How it works: during the window week, you fill in a dedicated form on the site. We send you a personalised quote within a few days, then production starts according to our usual lead times. Customisation no longer goes through direct online ordering — it becomes a conversation again.

This is the dedicated moment for those who want to collect, configure something truly specific, or simply obtain the most refined piece possible. The craft stays intact; we concentrate it.

And after

This new organisation frees time for something else. A new project is underway at the workshop — something we've never done before. The prototype exists, it's coming along well. We'll talk about it in the coming weeks.

For Atelier Durdan razor owners: nothing changes. Our commitments on quality, French CNC manufacturing, worldwide shipping and aftercare remain the same.

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