Giving Everyday Life a Taste of Sacredness
Arakuto is the first Maison in the world dedicated to the artisanal creation of sacred surfaces devoted to food preparation and gastronomy, called culinary altars.
Created in 2020 by Thierry Forbois, Arakuto is a response to the existential unease of our time, where more and more of us are overcome by a sense of emptiness, disconnection, and disenchantment. The impression that everything has lost its meaning, of no longer belonging to reality or feeling relevant to it, of lacking true connection to others, to beauty, to life, and to the mystery in all these things. An unease exacerbated by our alienation from an increasingly virtual and disembodied existence.
Arakuto invites us to rediscover moments of sacredness, authenticity, and resonance in our daily lives, by making the act of cooking a moment of elevation, of returning to oneself and to reality, of communion with the life that nourishes life.
Arakuto
From Ara, the Latin international name for the constellation of the Altar, and [kuto], the phonetic sound of 'couteau,' the French word for knife.
Arakuto
From Ara, the Latin international name for the constellation of the Altar, and [kuto], the phonetic sound of 'couteau,' the French word for knife.
Serial entrepreneur and unclassifiable creator, Thierry Forbois captivates with the originality of his vibrant, sacred universe. Self-taught polymath, he cultivates a field of passions where art, science, philosophy, literature, music, and wine converge. His creative impulse leads him to the artisanal object and the living space, through which he seeks to poetise, resacralise and reenchant the everyday. Founder of the Groupe Ktdral, as well as the Maisons Renart and Arakuto, he is also the creator of The Way of Wine.
The song of reality is a quantum hymn. It echoes in the void, in the mystery of this emptiness that gave birth to the Whole, which has been expanding ever since. At its inception, the Whole was formless, but over time, it began to take shape, complexifying into an infinity of forms, of which some became self-aware, marveling at their own intelligibility and connection to the Whole.
Thus, everything that grows, groans, feels, cries out, rebels, wonders... existed in the primordial void as a latent disposition, an archetype of the possible. Stellar oases, algae, ferns, mayflies, elephants, humans, we all come from this formless and distant continuum, and in the diversity of our appearances, in the deepest of our beings, something indivisible ties us all together and beckons us to remember.
The entire universe dwells within each of us, and through us, it exists. Every time we awaken to the world around us, the universe beholds its own majesty through our eyes. If you understand this, if you are aware of your cosmic filiation, living your life to the extent of its grandeur becomes a moral imperative. To infuse your existence with the raw, extraordinary, and enigmatic splendor of what-is, and to lend your creative forces to that beauty, is to live a sacred life – a life of true meaning and purpose.
Thierry Forbois