Card Technique: Gives the impression that the entire deck is shuffled, when it is only cut. This false shuffle is very deceptive. It is particularly suitable for tricks using the stacked deck principle. To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

Renelys was Dominique Duvivier's first mentor when he was very young. He used to do a two card transposition and to do so, he used a stripper deck. Dominique explains two ways to do this effect, but with regular cards. To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

The very original and exceptional performance of Gaetan Bloom's "Bamboo Chinese Sticks ", during a show in the very first years of the Double Fond. An exceptional archive ! To buy the trick, click here.  

Isaac Newton has to be careful! Here, it is a pear which is used, for an effect of making a solid go through another solid... in impossible conditions! A nice tribute to the great magician Stewart James, with Gaetan’s “Bloom Touch”!  

Based on a Pavel's trick, but with an unexpected and very funny ending... It's not a miracle,but a great trick for an emcee. If you want a guaranteed laugh... this is for you!  

An impromptu trick par excellence: how to make a coin enclosed in a piece of paper disappear. This great classic is performed without any sleight of hand, and with the most ordinary props: a piece of paper, and a coin.  

Le Double Fond opened its doors on June 1st 1988. This exceptional archive allows you to discover a little more Dominique in one of his shows in those days. Not to be missed under any circumstances! - Episode #1 : Dominique Duvivier, assisted by Agnès Samsoën - Episode #2 : Dominique Duvivier  

A ring is borrowed, and is slipped onto the handle of a small spoon, which is held by a spectator. Despite these impossible conditions, the magician mysteriously releases the ring!  

One card is freely chosen, and can even be signed. This card is visibly inserted into the middle of the deck... and mysteriously rises to the top! The effect is repeated several times, under more and more impossible conditions, ending with a quite visual and incomprehensible rise to the top! A great classic of card magic. Guaranteed effect! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

This very old effect has been revisited by Gaetan Bloom. The basic "recipe" of Al Baker's trick has been enhanced with a little extra "Bloom Touch" that gives it such a special taste! A pie tin is blackened with soot. A mysterious inscription appears in this soot... it's the name of the card that has been chosen beforehand by a spectator!  

It's just a gag, a surprise, to slip in when you feel like it... always ready, no reset, but a nice recipe. You produce a slice of sausage from a spectator’s pocket! Then you bite into it, you eat the end... zut! There is pepper! You blow towards the slice, which is restored... and you put it back in the spectator's pocket. That's all: no flap, or rubber band that breaks. Ideal in cocktail conditions.  

Le Double Fond opened its doors on June 1st 1988. This exceptional archive allows you to discover Dominique Duvivier and Gaetan Bloom in excerpts from various shows of the time. These excerpts have been divided into three parts. Not to be missed under any circumstances!  

Sefalaljia is the close-up version of the "Spirit Cabinet" routine designed by Stewart James. Gaetan Bloom has revisited the principle by including his famous "Bloom Touch": the "cabinet" is a simple cardboard box that he hands out for examination. Different "spirit" phenomena happen to various objects while they are isolated inside the box: - A borrowed ring is threaded onto a cord. - A small rugby ball, placed inside the box, mysteriously comes to life. A great classic... revisited by Gaetan Bloom.  

The magician shows that he has one red-backed card in a blue-backed deck. He explains that he can influence the spectator's thinking without the spectator being aware of it! The spectator chooses a card COMPLETELY FREELY from the 52 cards in the deck. The red card is then turned over: it is the same one! Success guaranteed! To buy: - a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here. - a bicolor double back card click here. - some “Repositionable Adhesive Dots” click here.  

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor, engineer, scientist, humanist, philosopher... he was a universal mind. He was also a visionary. He was an inventor too far ahead of his time for his projects to be realized; he nevertheless recorded them on parchments. Among his more confidential inventions are... playing cards! You are clearly showing front and back cards representing reproductions of secret parchments drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. All these parchments instantly turn into real playing cards, front and back! But this invention remained a secret... that's why these playing cards instantly turn back into parchments!  

The "elders" thought that magic could only be divided into 3 families of effects: appearance, disappearance, transformation. In the last century, Winston Freer revolutionized magic by discovering 17 families. Dominique Duvivier developed the concept and today, his work is based on 30 families! In this video, Alexandra Duvivier highlights the importance of this concept and explains how she takes it into account to enrich her performances and make them more attractive.