By the late nineteenth century, this rustic forged knife became very popular with the city bourgeoisie and was, as a result, adorned with precious materials such as ivory.The decorative detail of the handle and the spring start to diversified in 1910.The sculpture that adorned the head spring of the first models underwent various stylistic changes and included diamond, Fleur de Lys, four-leaf clover, leaf tree or even the profile of a man wearing a Phrygian hat before adopting what became the symbol of the Laguiole knife: the bee.

The “Laguiole” (pronounced "LAYOL") as it was called became a successful object beloved by people from all background and societies.
Unfortunately, success was short-lived, wars, rural exudes and the increasing and unbearable competition from the industrial cutleries of Thiers all contributed to the decline of the village’s traditional cutleries. Today, two cutleries remain and produce knives; they are the most famous of all called “The Forge de Laguiole” and the much smaller, local “La Coutellerie de Laguiole".