Bordeaux / France
IDantique in Bordeaux brings together brocante, furniture design and a workshop of curiosities.
Best for Brocante and furniture design
Furniture & Lighting of France
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French furniture runs from rattan café chairs to powder-coated steel, with racing sailcloth cut from boats that have crossed oceans in between. Maison Drucker weaves rattan Paris café chairs and colorful bistro furniture. Fermob powder-coats the Luxembourg Garden chair in the Ain, where the maker was founded in 1890. 727 Sailbags upcycles Vendée Globe racing sail canvas into bags and furniture in Lorient. A café chair judges you back, so sit in it for a full minute before buying. A sofa needs the staircase measured first, since French buildings predate French sofas.
Visit official site ↗Kaysersberg
Verrerie d'Art de Kaysersberg has hand-blown glass in its vineyard-side workshop since 2002, shaping tableware, lighting and decorative pieces over an open flame. Visitors can watch the glassblowers work molten glass at the bench, in what the studio calls its air-and-fire demonstrations.
Best for Hand-blown glass tableware and lighting
Visit official site ↗91 Avenue Julien Guigue, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Lesain Antiquités deals in furniture and decorative objects from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Its shop is at 91 avenue Julien Guigue in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, with an online catalogue for browsing before a visit. The dealer provides condition information and can arrange delivery for purchases in France or abroad.
Best for Furniture and mirrors from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century
Lesain Antiquités sells older furniture and decorative objects at 91 avenue Julien Guigue in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Its stated period range runs from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, so this is a dealer to consider when a room calls for an antique rather than a reproduction. The range includes mirrors and trumeaux alongside the furniture selection. The paintings and sculpture provide smaller-scale possibilities for buyers furnishing a room. The dealer says it describes the condition of objects and any customary restoration, information worth reading before arranging transport for a large purchase. For mirrors and frames, the shop specifically invites enquiries with the dimensions a buyer needs before discussing a suitable piece. Its online catalogue provides a way to inspect the current offering before visiting or asking for more photographs. Delivery is offered within France and internationally, though the arrangements belong to the individual purchase. The business also advertises valuations and house-clearance work, giving it a sourcing role as well as a retail one.
Visit official site ↗2 bis Avenue de l'Égalité (Quai de la Gare), L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Housed in a converted 3,000-square-metre silk mill by the old train station, this antiques village has gathered dealers under one roof since 1978 and now shelters more than 80 exhibitors trading in furniture, decorative objects and collectibles from every era. An upper-floor gallery space called Nouvel VAG adds contemporary and numbered works by emerging artists alongside the antiques trade below.
Best for Browsing dozens of antique dealers in one historic building
Visit official site ↗Lille / France
Lille's La Boutik à gathers ceramics, jewellery, fashion, woodwork, soap, furniture and home decoration.
Best for Local maker collections
Visit official site ↗Lille / France
Momentum is a Lille design store for furniture, lighting, tableware, accessories, art books and children's objects.
Best for Furniture and lighting
Visit official site ↗Saint-Germain / Marais
Founded in 2011 by Alix Depondt-Reynis, a former lawyer who began hand-shaping porcelain at age 35; her tableware and lighting are still hand-modeled in her rue Jacob workshop, then produced by a family manufacture in Limoges.
Best for Porcelain, lighting, and jewelry with a soft romantic French feel
Alix D. Reynis did not train as a designer. She studied law, worked for several years in a notary's office, then spent a year as a construction site manager before changing direction entirely. At 35, after the birth of her fourth child, she began working with clay in her home basement, first with earthenware and stoneware before discovering porcelain, drawn to what she describes as its lightness, fineness and quiet density. She launched her eponymous brand in 2011 with a first tableware collection, followed by scented candles, lighting, and more recently jewelry. Her working method has stayed consistent since: she hand-shapes and models each piece herself in her workshop on the rue Jacob in Paris, and those hand-built models and molds are then sent to a family-run porcelain manufacture in Limoges for production, rather than the pieces being produced from the outset in Limoges. The visual signature that runs through the collections, matte white glazes, clean lines, softened classical forms reduced to essentials, comes directly from that hand-modeling process, and from her stated preference for restraint over ornament in reworking traditional porcelain shapes.
Visit official site ↗Paris
La Redoute’s upscale home line — Parisian apartment furniture and decor with editorial polish at catalogue prices. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Parisian apartment furniture and decor at catalogue prices
Visit official site ↗Marais / Saint-Germain
Paris home-furnishings house founded 1995 by Françoise Dorget, mixing bohemian-modern furniture and lighting with handcrafted textiles and tableware. Original shop on rue Pavée in the Marais; later flagship in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Best for Bohemian-chic sofas and textiles for room-making
Caravane was founded in 1995 by Françoise Dorget, built around a bohemian-modern take on furniture, lighting and textiles rather than a single national design tradition. Its first shop opened on rue Pavée in the Marais, inside a courtyard space topped by a glass canopy that lets daylight reach the shop floor - an architectural detail the brand has continued to describe as central to how the space feels. From that base, Caravane expanded into multiple Paris addresses, including a shop near Bastille and a later flagship, La Maison Caravane, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, alongside a presence inside Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, the Left Bank department store. The brand's range covers upholstered sofas and armchairs, rugs, cushions, table linens and other textiles, and decorative tableware, generally mixing handcraft techniques and materials from different regions rather than presenting a single-country aesthetic. Véronique has led the company since 2011, with her daughter Capucine now also involved in the business, continuing the founder's direction rather than repositioning the brand. Over close to three decades, Caravane has become a reference name in Paris for a layered, travel-influenced approach to home decorating, distinct from both minimalist Scandinavian design and traditional French antique-led interiors.
Visit official site ↗Paris
French contemporary furniture editor — Ligne Roset’s sibling for young French design. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Contemporary French furniture from Ligne Roset's sibling design house
Visit official site ↗Haut-Marais
French fine-craft concept store: ceramics, jewelry, textiles, furniture, and handmade objects.
Best for Ceramics, jewelry, textiles, and furniture at a French fine-craft concept store
Visit official site ↗Marais
Fleux fills its Marais space with lighting, tableware, furniture, gadgets and gifts. The appeal is the breadth of design objects and the visual collisions between them, not a single house style.
Best for A design-object playground of lighting, tableware, furniture, and gadgets.
Visit official site ↗Saint-Germain / 6th
Saint-Germain gallery opened in 1982 by François Laffanour and Mara Cremniter on rue de Seine, specializing in furniture by 20th-century architects — Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère. Holds the archives of the former Galerie Steph Simon (1956–1974).
Best for Collectible French modernist furniture
François Laffanour and Mara Cremniter opened the Downtown gallery on rue de Seine in Paris's Saint-Germain quarter in 1982, at a time when furniture designed by architects rather than furniture-makers was still a little-explored corner of the market. Laffanour took over running the gallery alone in 1992 and has continued to lead it since, building a reputation as one of the market's specialists in architectural furniture from the mid-20th century onward — pieces made by architects who, working in the decades after the Second World War, brought a functional, freedom-oriented approach to furnishing interiors. The gallery represents and deals in work by figures including Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère, and Matthieu Matégot. It also holds the archives of the former Galerie Steph Simon, which from 1956 to 1974 represented furniture by Perriand, Prouvé, Le Corbusier, Serge Mouille, Georges Jouve, and Isamu Noguchi, giving Laffanour's gallery a direct historical link to that earlier program. Laffanour, born in 1952 in El Biar, has worked in the design and antiques trade for over four decades and is regularly described in trade press as a leading figure in the market for 20th- and 21st-century architect-designed furniture. The gallery continues to mount exhibitions from its Saint-Germain address and takes part in international design and art fairs such as PAD.
Visit official site ↗Saint-Germain / 6th
Furniture treated as research and issued in limited editions - Bouroullec and Grcic among the names, from Saint-Germain.
Best for Limited-edition furniture research by Bouroullec and Grcic in Saint-Germain.
Visit official site ↗Rue Las Cases / 7th
Paris studio founded in 2000 by Tehran-born India Mahdavi after seven years as artistic director for Christian Liaigre; her all-pink Gallery at Sketch (London, 2014) helped popularize the 'Millennial Pink' palette.
Best for The designer's furniture, color, and collectible ceramics in her Paris universe
India Mahdavi was born in Tehran to an Iranian father and an Egyptian-English mother, and trained in architecture along with industrial, graphic and furniture design. She began her career as artistic director for French designer Christian Liaigre, working with him for seven years before founding her own studio in Paris in 2000, followed shortly after by a showroom and a homeware shop. Her hospitality projects include On Rivington in New York, Le Germain and Café Français in Paris, Apogée Courchevel, the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel in Monaco, and the Connaught-Coburg bar in London. Her best-known work is The Gallery at Sketch, a London restaurant she designed in 2014 saturated in a single shade of pink, widely reported as one of the most-photographed restaurants in the world on social media; the project is credited with helping popularize the shade later nicknamed 'Millennial Pink.' She has also designed Ladurée locations in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Geneva, each styled around a pastel palette referencing Marie Antoinette. Her Paris studio, showroom and small-objects space are grouped along rue Las Cases in the 7th arrondissement.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris gallery founded in 2000 by Philippe Jousse, split between a furniture space at 18 rue de Seine showing mid-century designers like Jean Prouve, Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier, and a contemporary art space at 6 rue Saint-Claude.
Best for Collectible design furniture and contemporary art exhibitions
Jousse Entreprise is a Paris gallery founded in 2000 by Philippe Jousse, operating across two distinct spaces. The furniture gallery, at 18 rue de Seine in the 6th arrondissement, deals in architect- and designer-made furniture from the mid-20th century, representing figures including Jean Prouve, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Serge Mouille, Jean Royere, Georges Jouve, Andre Borderie, Mathieu Mategot and Alexandre Noll. A second space at 6 rue Saint-Claude in the Marais focuses on contemporary art. Jousse has spent more than three decades working to build recognition for the mid-century architect-designers his furniture gallery represents, and the gallery has exhibited at fairs including Design Miami and Independent.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris design studio and shop founded by Pauline Vincent, curating playful glassware, tableware, and colorful objects celebrating everyday beauty and seasonal aesthetics.
Best for Small-batch Paris-edition furniture, lighting, and colorful design objects
La Romaine Editions was founded by Pauline Vincent as a design studio dedicated to discovering simple, unexpected beauty in everyday objects. Based between Paris and Provence, the brand creates exquisite ceramics, blown glass, and tableware in playful forms and distinctive color combinations. The studio operates a physical retail location at 40 Rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris, which serves as the creative center for the project. The shop features curated monthly displays of carefully selected objects including knife rests, selected furniture, designer candlesticks, vases, ceramics, and glass pieces. In addition to permanent stock, La Romaine Editions changes thematic selections several times yearly to celebrate specific colors, moods, or seasons. The brand accepts custom orders including standing tables and made-to-measure pieces for both individual and professional clients. La Romaine Editions represents a contemporary French design practice focused on celebrating the poetic and functional qualities of objects for daily use.
Visit official site ↗1 Rue Elzevir, 75003 Paris
Lemaire's rue Elzévir store presents clothing and accessories from the house led by Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran. Opened in 2023, the Marais premises pair the collections with handmade tiles and furniture within the interior. The clothes favour modular silhouettes and layering, while fabric sourcing spans Europe and Japan rather than one origin.
Best for Lemaire clothing and accessories in the Marais
Lemaire opened its rue Elzévir flagship in the Marais in March 2023, moving into a larger Paris retail setting. The house is led by Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran, whose collections develop clothing intended for repeated combinations. Modular shapes and layering are recurring parts of that approach, alongside attention to fabric and construction.
The shop's interior adds another set of materials to the clothes and accessories on display. Handmade bejmat tiles and abaca mats sit alongside wooden furniture and ceramic stands across the space. These elements belong to the presentation of the shop, rather than proving how every garment is produced.
A visit is most useful for someone considering the relationship between individual pieces within a wardrobe. The clothing can be considered together with the house's accessories instead of as a series of isolated seasonal purchases. Fabrics come primarily from Europe and Japan, according to the house's account of its production approach. That is a statement about sourcing and should not be mistaken for a universal country of garment manufacture.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
French online design retailer founded in 1999 in Grenoble, selling furniture, lighting and decor from 200-plus brands including Alessi, Kartell and Foscarini; part of the Printemps Group since 2019.
Best for Furniture, lighting, tableware, and decor from a large French online design shop.
Made in Design was founded in 1999 in Grenoble, France, with the goal of making design-brand furniture and home objects available to a broader audience through an online catalogue rather than gallery-only pricing. The company grew into one of France's largest design retailers, building a catalogue of more than 200 brands and roughly 20,000 individual pieces, with several hundred new products added most months. Its supplier list includes established design manufacturers such as Alessi, Kartell and Foscarini, spanning furniture, lighting, tableware and decor. Alongside its e-commerce operation, Made in Design operates a small number of physical boutiques in France. In 2019 the company became part of Groupe Printemps, the department-store group that also owns the Printemps stores, positioning Made in Design as the group's dedicated design and home-furnishings arm within its broader retail portfolio. The company continues to operate as a specialist retailer rather than a manufacturer, curating and reselling third-party design pieces rather than producing its own line.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris home-textiles house founded in 1995 by Michele Fouks near the Palais-Royal. Led since 2000 by Emmanuelle Fouks and Nicolas Mauriac. Cushions, linens and furniture are, per the brand, designed and made in France.
Best for Washed linen cushions, throws and relaxed home textiles
Maison de Vacances is a Paris home-textiles house founded in 1995 by Michele Fouks, based near the Palais-Royal gardens in central Paris. Since 2000 it has been led by Emmanuelle Fouks and Nicolas Mauriac; Emmanuelle was born into the Fouks family's existing fashion and textile business, which had built its earlier success on postwar ready-to-wear clothing. The house makes cushions, bed linens, table linens and furniture, with an emphasis on relaxed, bohemian-leaning Parisian design. Its pieces are, per the brand, designed and manufactured in France.
Visit official site ↗France / Online
Maison Drucker is a French rattan chair maker for Paris café chairs, bistro furniture, and colorful woven seating. At France, the range centers on rattan Paris café chairs and colorful woven bistro furniture.
Best for Rattan Paris café chairs and colorful woven bistro furniture.
Visit official site ↗BHV Marais / Rue de Rivoli
Italian lighting house founded 1950 in Lucca, Tuscany by designer Elio Martinelli. Produces Gae Aulenti's 1965 Pipistrello lamp, originally made for Olivetti's Paris showroom; still manufactured in Lucca under his daughter Emiliana.
Best for The 1965 bat-wing Pipistrello lamp, an icon of Italian lighting modernism.
Martinelli Luce was founded in 1950 in Lucca, Tuscany, when designer Elio Martinelli turned a cellar in the city's old centre into what he called his 'Laboratory.' The company built its early identity on injection-moulded plastic and methacrylate lighting, designed primarily by Martinelli and by architect Gae Aulenti. Its defining piece is the Pipistrello, designed by Aulenti in 1965 for the Olivetti showroom in Paris and produced by Martinelli Luce ever since; the lamp's name comes from its shade, four curved opaline methacrylate panels shaped to evoke outstretched wings. Martinelli Luce remains an independent, family-run company, today led by Emiliana Martinelli, Elio's daughter, with production still concentrated in Lucca.
Visit official site ↗Canal Saint-Martin, 75010 Paris
Contemporary French design brand — furniture, lighting, and accessories by emerging French designers. Bold, playful pieces.
Best for Furniture, lighting, and accessories by emerging French designers
Visit official site ↗Paris / Multiple
Natalys is a French maternity and baby brand founded in Paris in 1953 by the Kelman family on rue Vignon; it designs its own childrenswear, nursery furniture and newborn gifts and sells through its own stores.
Best for French baby clothes, nursery furniture and newborn gifts
Natalys was founded in 1953 in Paris, opening its first shop on rue Vignon under the Kelman family, initially selling clothing for expectant mothers. The brand added its first dedicated babywear collection in 1972 and has since expanded into nursery furniture, decor and newborn gifts alongside maternity and childrenswear. A distinguishing point noted in French retail coverage is that Natalys both designs its own pieces and curates selected partner products, rather than operating purely as a reseller.
The brand today operates as a multi-location French retailer with stores across the country as well as an online shop, positioned toward the higher end of the maternity-and-baby segment.
Visit official site ↗Passage Jouffroy
Toy and dollhouse-miniatures shop open since 1972 in Paris's 19th-century Passage Jouffroy, near the Musée Grévin. Two floors specialize in handmade wooden toys, dollhouse furniture, stuffed animals and vintage-style games.
Best for Dollhouse furniture and old-Paris toys in the Passage Jouffroy since 1972
Pain d'Épices has operated since 1972 inside the Passage Jouffroy, one of the covered 19th-century shopping arcades running through Paris's 9th arrondissement near the Musée Grévin waxworks. The shop takes its name from pain d'épices, the spiced honey bread traditionally associated with French children's teatime treats of past generations — a name chosen to evoke nostalgia rather than describe what it sells. Spread across two floors under the arcade's glass roof, the store specializes in dollhouse miniatures and furniture, handmade wooden toys, stuffed animals and dolls, along with vintage-style games and unusual collectible objects aimed at both children and adult collectors. It has become particularly known among miniature and dollhouse enthusiasts as a source for pieces sized and finished for serious display collections rather than mass-market toy versions. The shop's survival since 1972 inside Passage Jouffroy — itself a protected example of Paris's historic covered-arcade architecture — has made it a fixture of that stretch of the 9th arrondissement, alongside the arcade's other longstanding independent shops.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris interior architecture and decorative arts house founded in 1841 by a cabinetmaker; still operates its own boiserie/millwork, furniture and bronze workshops across three sites in France.
Best for High-end French interiors, furniture, and decorative-arts craftsmanship
Maison Rinck is a Paris interior architecture and decorative arts firm founded in 1841 by a cabinetmaker, shaped across generations by members of the Rinck family including Eugene Rinck, active in the 1930s Art Deco movement. Under Maurice Rinck's leadership the house began working with Parisian luxury hotels in the 1930s. Rinck still runs its own onsite production: boiserie and millwork workshops, furniture and bronze workshops, and design offices spread across three sites in France, delivering full turn-key interiors for private residential clients as well as institutional and hospitality commissions.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris-founded online marketplace for secondhand furniture and decor, started in 2014 (originally as Brocante Lab) by Charlotte Cade and Maxime Brousse; lists over 300,000 vetted vintage and design pieces from individual and professional sellers.
Best for Second-hand French furniture and decor, flea-market shopping from home
Selency was founded in Paris in September 2014 by Charlotte Cade and Maxime Brousse under the original name Brocante Lab, later rebranded to Selency. The idea was to bring the browsing experience of a French flea market online, letting people buy vetted secondhand furniture and design pieces without physically visiting antique fairs. The platform has grown to list more than 300,000 items, moderated by an in-house team for authenticity and condition. Alongside individual consignment, Selency runs a professional-seller program aimed at established vintage and antiques dealers.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
Paris design gallery-shop that began in 1947 when Robert Sentou started selling his own woven straw chairs, later opening a Paris boutique and, in the 1980s, turning it into a design gallery with Roger Tallon and Roger Fatus; now led by Pierre Romanet.
Best for Colorful furniture, lighting, and playful French design objects
Sentou began in 1947 in the Périgord region of France, where Robert Sentou made and sold woven straw chairs. He later opened his first shop in Paris to sell his own furniture, and in the 1980s reworked the space into a design gallery and showroom with the designer Roger Tallon and the interior designer Roger Fatus. That shift set the direction the business has kept since: publishing and selecting furniture and objects that sit between contemporary art and everyday design, rather than functioning as a conventional furniture retailer. The gallery has since been taken over by Pierre Romanet, who continues its programme of editions and reissues. Its catalogue includes Roger Tallon's M400 spiral staircase, Isamu Noguchi's paper lamps, and Sentou's own editioned pieces such as the Endora curved mirrors, the Cryptogamme stool and the Bergerac collection — a mix of vintage design reissues and new commissions that has kept Sentou associated with a particular, colour-forward strand of postwar and contemporary French design across its Paris locations.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Multiple
Paris-based design authority — 20 showrooms across Europe curating 500+ contemporary and vintage furniture brands.
Best for Furniture across multiple Paris showrooms from Beaubourg to Wagram
Silvera is a family-owned French design company established in 1990, cultivating a unique vision of contemporary European design. The company operates as a true European reference in space planning and carefully sourced design furniture, with 20 showrooms located in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Cannes, and London. Silvera specializes in comprehensive design solutions across multiple categories including residential and commercial furniture, lighting fixtures (lamps, suspensions, floor lamps), outdoor and garden furniture, accessories and decorative objects, office and corporate furnishings, children's furniture, and kitchen and wardrobe solutions. The company represents prestigious brands including Vitra, Cassina, Flos, Kartell, Knoll, Minotti, and Gubi, emphasizing contemporary European design with emphasis on quality, functionality, and sustainability.
Visit official site ↗Paris / Online
The Socialite Family began in 2013 as Constance Gennari's media title photographing Parisian families at home. In 2017 it launched a furniture and lighting line, designed in Paris and made by workshops in Europe, mainly in Italy and France. Gennari remains founder and artistic director. The house sells online and through its own boutiques.
Best for Constance Gennari's furniture, inspired by photographing real Parisian family homes
The Socialite Family started in 2013 as a media title. Constance Gennari began photographing friends at home with their families, drawn to a door detail or a line of furniture that told a story about how they lived. Those portraits of interiors grew a readership. In 2017 the company launched its own furniture line, run from an in-house creative studio in Paris. The collections of furniture and lighting are designed in Paris and made by workshops in Europe, mainly in Italy and France. The house describes its signature as a homage to Italy, the country closest to Gennari's heart. Materials and proportion are the stated priorities, along with the handwork of the artisans who build the pieces. The site continues to publish family portraits alongside the shop, and a linen range sits beside the furniture. Large pieces are delivered by white-glove service to the floor of the customer's choice. The brand runs a programme for architects and decorators as well as a network of resellers. Gennari remains founder and artistic director. She now works with a team rather than alone, as the site puts it. The company operates physical boutiques as well as the online store, and a professional programme serves the trade.
Visit official site ↗Toulouse / France
L'Interprète in Toulouse curates design furniture, lighting and decorative objects alongside fashion accessories, fragrance and pantry goods.
Best for Design-led cross-category finds
Visit official site ↗Lorient / Brittany / Online
Lorient-based maker of bags and accessories cut from decommissioned racing sails, including Vendee Globe boats; founded 2005 in Brittany's 'Sailing Valley,' sails 100% recycled.
Best for Bags and furniture upcycled from Vendée Globe racing sail canvas in Lorient
727 Sailbags began in 2005 when sailor Jean-Baptiste had the idea of turning a sail from his family's Farr 727 boat into a travel bag. The venture became the company Green Sails in 2010, with 727 Sailbags as its product brand, and it set up its workshop in Lorient, in the Brittany region known as ocean racing's 'Sailing Valley.' Every bag, item of luggage or decorative piece is made from a decommissioned sail, collected from sailors and sailmakers and sorted and identified in France before being cut and sewn. 727 Sailbags is an official partner of the Vendee Globe round-the-world race, and for the 2024 edition produced a collection made from sails used by competitors in earlier editions.
Visit official site ↗Ain / Rhône-Alpes / Online
French outdoor-furniture maker founded 1890 in Thoissey, Ain, by a family of blacksmiths; near bankruptcy until Bernard Reybier bought it in 1989 and relaunched it in 24 colors, landing the contract for the Jardin du Luxembourg's green garden chairs.
Best for The powder-coated Luxembourg Garden chair, made in the Ain.
Fermob traces back to 1890, when a family of ironworkers in Thoissey, a small town in the Ain department of eastern France, began making metal furniture. For most of the 20th century the company produced just two items: an old-fashioned scrolled chair and the folding Bistro chair. By the late 1980s Fermob was close to collapse, squeezed out by cheap plastic garden furniture. In 1989, Bernard Reybier bought the failing company for a few hundred thousand francs. His turnaround strategy was color: he launched the Bistro chair in 24 shades at a time when garden furniture came only in white or dark green. The gamble worked, and Fermob went on to supply the emblematic green folding chairs of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.
Visit official site ↗Pernes-les-Fontaines / Provence / Online
La Maison Pernoise is a Provence concept store mixing furniture, tableware, textiles, jewellery and fragrance. The cross-category edit suits shoppers looking for a coherent southern interior rather than one specialist craft.
Best for Provence furniture, tableware, textiles, and jewelry finds
Visit official site ↗Nantes / France
Mains Libres presents furniture, tables and custom-made design work in Nantes.
Best for Furniture and custom design
Visit official site ↗Montpellier / France
In Montpellier, Metropolitan Concept Store selects furniture, lighting, fashion accessories, jewellery, stationery and gifts from French brands and independent creators.
Best for French design and creator goods
Visit official site ↗Saint-Louis
Heritage HouseSaint-Louis-lès-Bitche / Lorraine / Online
Saint-Louis has been active as a glassworks in the Moselle forest village of Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche since 1586 and in 1781 became the first crystal-glass manufacturer in continental Europe. Now part of the Hermès group, it still mouth-blows and hand-cuts every piece on-site, from stemware and paperweights to chandeliers.
Best for Cut-crystal stemware, paperweights, and lighting. Decanters and vases.
Visit official site ↗Nantes / France
Septembre Concept Store in Nantes selects furniture and lighting for interiors of a bohemian turn.
Best for Bohemian furniture and home décor
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