29 stores · curated ORBIS register
Silver from Paris, faience from the Loiret, steel from Normandy: French tables have been laid this way for two centuries. Christofle has made embassy-grade silver tableware in Paris since 1830. Gien hand-paints faience earthenware at its Loiret manufactory, working since 1821. Degrenne sets stainless flatware and porcelain from a Norman house dating to 1948. Hand-painted faience does not survive the dishwasher; the silver does, but it will ask to be polished a few times a year.
Bordeaux, Gironde
Lette.ceramics is a Bordeaux studio producing hand-thrown and hand-built stoneware, from tableware to vases in muted glazes. The pieces are made in small batches in the workshop and sold directly.
Best for Handmade Bordeaux ceramics
Collioure / France
Zinzin Magasin is a shop on Place du 18 Juin in Collioure selling tableware and decoration, and old toys too.
Best for Tableware, decor and old toys
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
Lille / France
Momentum is a Lille design store for furniture, lighting, tableware, accessories, art books and children's objects.
Best for Furniture and lighting
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.
Paris / Online
Paris tableware shop founded in 1977 by designer Aude Clement at 59 Boulevard Raspail, mixing hand-painted faience and porcelain, crystal, and antique silverware with contemporary decorative pieces.
Best for Tableware glassware and decorative objects with an old-world French hospitality mood
Au Bain Marie was founded in Paris in 1977 by designer and stylist Aude Clement, and has operated for nearly 50 years blending antiques with contemporary design in the tableware space. Its main showroom is at 59 Boulevard Raspail in the 6th arrondissement, with a second gallery location at 56 rue de l'Universite in the 7th. The shop's range includes hand-painted faience and porcelain dinnerware, crystal and glassware, decorative cutlery, silverware, table linens, and genuine antiquities alongside newly made pieces. Au Bain Marie exhibits at the Maison and Objet trade fair.
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.
Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris
French silversmith since 1830 — Mood egg flatware capsules and the art de la table of embassies. In 1842 Charles Christofle bought the patents for silver and gold electroplating and, official text says, was the only patent holder in France for 15 years; Louis-Philippe ordered a service for Château d’Eu.
Best for Mood egg flatware capsules and embassy-grade silver tableware since 1830
Charles Christofle, a jeweler by training, acquired the French patents for electroplating in 1842 and turned silver from aristocratic hoard into republican splendor — Christofle, founded 1830, became goldsmith to King Louis-Philippe, then to Napoleon III, whose imperial table it laid entire. The Tuileries burned; the craft survived; the house has set the French state's grandest tables ever since, embassies and Élysée included.
The catalogue is table history itself: Marly's rococo flourish, the Art Deco masterpieces of the 1920s and 30s created with Gio Ponti and Luc Lanel — the house's Normandie ocean-liner commissions remain collector grails — and the Mood egg, a mirrored capsule holding service for six, which made silverware an object of desire for apartments without butlers.
Production continues at the Normandy ateliers in Yainville with silversmithing's full trade intact. Owned by the Chalhoub family group since 2012, Christofle remains the argument France perfected: that civilization is measurable in the weight of a fork.
Paris
Guy Degrenne took over his father's forge in Sourdeval, Normandy in 1948 to make stainless steel cutlery, reportedly recovering steel from abandoned Battle of Normandy tank armor; a second plant followed in Vire in 1967, and the house remains a major French tableware maker.
Best for Stainless flatware and porcelain table settings from a Norman house since 1948
Degrenne's founding in 1948 centers on Guy Degrenne taking over his father's forge in Sourdeval, in the Manche department of Normandy, with the goal of making stainless steel cutlery accessible to ordinary households rather than a luxury reserved for the wealthy. The business began small, with around seven workers, but grew quickly on the back of an unusual sourcing story: the company is described as having recovered stainless steel from tank armor abandoned in the region after the Battle of Normandy, repurposing wartime material into everyday flatware. As the business industrialized, Guy Degrenne built a new production site in Vire, in Calvados, in 1967, and the company went on to become a leading name in French arts de la table. Degrenne's current production is based across sites in Vire and Limoges.
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.
Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris
French faience manufactory founded 1821 in Gien, Loiret, by Thomas Hall on the banks of the Loire; known for hand-painted earthenware, armorial tableware, and tilework in several Paris Metro stations.
Best for Hand-painted faience earthenware tableware from the Loiret manufactory, since 1821.
The Faiencerie de Gien was founded in 1821 by Thomas Hall, who established the works in the town of Gien, in the Loiret department along the Loire river. Through the 19th century the manufactory built its reputation making armorial tableware commissioned by aristocratic families, and its tiles were later used in several Paris Metro stations. Today the works produce between 700,000 and 900,000 hand-finished pieces a year, supplying both its own boutiques and third-party retailers in Paris, Bordeaux, and Brussels as well as the United States. The company still manufactures in Gien itself.
Paris
Guy Degrenne makes stainless-steel flatware in Vire, Normandy, and porcelain dinnerware at its Limoges manufacture. Founded in 1948, the French house supplies tableware for domestic use as well as professional hospitality. Its current Paris shop directory should be used for a visit, since older boutique addresses may no longer match the published list.
Best for French stainless-steel flatware and Limoges porcelain dinnerware
Guy Degrenne is a French tableware house founded in 1948, with stainless-steel flatware and porcelain among its products. Its manufacturing story connects two places: Vire in Normandy for flatware, and Limoges for porcelain. These are production locations, distinct from the Paris boutiques where customers can compare pieces for their own tables.
At Vire, stainless steel is worked into cutlery designed for use by home customers as well as professional chefs. The Limoges manufacture produces dinnerware, with collections exploring different forms and surface finishes. A fork and a porcelain plate therefore involve different materials and manufacturing processes, even when chosen from the same house.
For a purchase, start with the pieces that need replacing or the number of settings you want to assemble. Compare the cutlery's weight and shape alongside the plates you expect to use with it. The official store directory identifies current Paris boutiques, so use that listing when planning a visit rather than an older address.
Iittala
Finnish glass modernism — Aalto vases and Teema tableware since 1881. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Finnish glass modernism, Aalto vases and Teema tableware since 1881
Iittala takes its name from the Finnish glassworks village where the company was founded in 1881, and its design language has since become a byword for Nordic modernism in glass and tableware. The house built its identity through collaborations with some of Finland's most significant designers: Alvar and Aino Aalto's sculptural, freeform 1936 vase -- its silhouette inspired by the lakes of the Finnish landscape -- remains in continuous production and is held in major design museum collections. Kaj Franck's Teema tableware series, originally launched as Kilta in 1953, established the now-influential idea of mix-and-match, stackable dinnerware built around simple geometric forms rather than a single matched pattern. Later, glass artist Oiva Toikka introduced the Birds by Toikka series, individually mouth-blown decorative glass birds that have become collectors' objects in their own right. Iittala's flagship retail presence in Finland is its Helsinki store on the Pohjoisesplanadi, renewed and reopened in August 2016 as a 217-square-metre showcase of the full product range, from everyday glassware to art-glass pieces, staffed by specialists trained in the brand's materials and history.
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.
Paris / Online
Founded in Paris in 2007 by glassblower Sébastien Nobile and Valentina Nobile; the pair sold their first four recycled-glass vases by bicycle to Paris florists in 2009, and proceeds still fund glassblowing artisans.
Best for Hand-blown recycled glass tableware, vases, and objects
La Soufflerie began as a nonprofit glassblowing association that Sébastien and Valentina Nobile founded in Paris in 2007, after concluding that mouth-blown glassmaking was dying out in the city. Sébastien was one of the few working glassblowers left in Paris; Valentina, then a painter and photographer, had approached him about renting studio space, and the two later spent their honeymoon traveling by camper to ancient glassblowing sites in Jordan and Syria. On their return, in 2009, they made four vases from recycled glass and sold them by bicycle to Paris florists — the sale that effectively launched the business. That same year, both of the glassblowing teachers Sébastien had studied under died, and the region's only glassblowing class closed, leaving La Soufflerie among the last active links to the craft in Paris. The company still uses recycled glass sourced from wine and beer bottles, perfume bottles, and window panes, melted by hand in a furnace and shaped by mouth rather than machine, so each finished piece — vases, tableware, glasses — carries visible pontil marks and slight variation as a mark of handwork. It runs a boutique in the Latin Quarter at 7 rue de l'Odéon and reinvests proceeds into supporting glassblowers.
Saint-Germain / 6th
Paris ceramics boutique founded in 1974, owned since 2006 by Eric Goujou, showcasing handmade regional French pottery from Alsace, Provence, Normandy, Burgundy and the Camargue. Located at 35 Rue Daubenton, 5th arrondissement.
Best for French regional pottery and tableware
La Tuile a Loup was established in Paris in 1974 with a mission to preserve traditional, regional French ceramic craftsmanship. The original owners retired in 2006 and sold the shop to Eric Goujou, a longtime customer whose interest in handmade objects led him to take over the business. The boutique curates pottery, bowls, plates and decorative pieces sourced from craftspeople across multiple French regions, including Alsace, the Camargue, Normandy, Burgundy and Provence. It operates from 35 Rue Daubenton in the Latin Quarter, in Paris's 5th arrondissement, with multiple current sources describing visits as by appointment.
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.
Paris / Online
French tableware and design brand founded in 2008, known for its Breton-style bowls handcrafted at a pottery near Pornic, Brittany; exhibits annually at the Maison & Objet trade fair.
Best for Playful French tableware, gifts, and colorful design objects for the home
Pied de Poule has been designing French tableware and decorative objects since 2008, built around reinterpreting everyday household items with color and humor rather than a conventional home-goods catalogue. One of its recurring lines is a set of Breton-style bowls, handcrafted at a pottery near Pornic on France's Atlantic coast in Brittany, made-in-France pieces the brand foregrounds over imported alternatives. The company is based at 59 rue de l'Ourcq in the 19th arrondissement, with a separate retail shop at 17 rue Lambert near Lamarck-Caulaincourt in the 18th arrondissement. It exhibits regularly at the Maison & Objet trade fair, the Paris design and home-goods showcase, positioning its collections toward buyers and retailers as well as individual shoppers. The brand's focus on domestically produced, design-forward tableware and small objects places it within a broader wave of French manufacturers marketing 'Made in France' provenance as a specific selling point rather than a general claim.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence / France
Pampa on Rue Nostradamus in Saint-Rémy offers decorative objects of a spare design, modern or more traditional.
Best for Provencal ceramics and tableware
Toulouse / France
Chez Zel on rue de la Pomme in Toulouse selects from designers, from clothing through to tableware.
Best for Designers, from clothing to tableware
Moustiers Sainte Marie / France
Founded in 1995 by Franck Scherer and Geraldine Dorche, Atelier Soleil is a faience workshop in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, hand-throwing and hand-painting plates, platters, vases and tableware. Each seasonal design is made and decorated in Provence and sold through the atelier's online boutique.
Best for Hand-thrown, hand-painted Moustiers-Sainte-Marie faience — plates, platters, vases, and seasonal tableware
Burgundy / Online
French ceramic kitchenware maker founded 1850 in Burgundy, producing handcrafted cocottes, bakeware, and tableware with 10-year guarantee.
Best for Flame-proof ceramic cocottes fired by the same Burgundy family since 1850
Emile Henry was established in 1850 and operates as a family-managed manufacturer of culinary ceramics based in Marcigny, Burgundy, where it maintains its artisan workshops and manufacturing operations. All pieces are handcrafted and signed by artisans using natural clay and traditional techniques, with a commitment to "made in France" production. The company produces a comprehensive range of cooking vessels including tajines, cocottes (Dutch ovens), bread molds, pizza dishes, cake pans, and tableware in various colors and sizes. Every item carries a 10-year guarantee reflecting the durability of the handmade construction. Emile Henry's philosophy centers on "the pleasure of good taste" and homemade cooking that brings people together, emphasizing quality craftsmanship alongside ancestral expertise. The brand has remained a cornerstone of French kitchenware for over 170 years, balancing innovation with traditional ceramic production methods.
Gordes
This Gordes atelier produces hand-thrown stoneware including mugs, bowls, plates and oil bottles, grouped into named glaze collections such as Emerald, Fluorine and Sapphire. Pieces are made to order with an eco-responsible approach and can be bought through the studio's own gallery and contact line.
Best for Hand-thrown glazed tableware and oil bottles
17A Boulevard des Platanes, Ansouis, Vaucluse
Juliet Schlunke has painted and thrown ceramics for more than forty years, and her Ansouis atelier-gallery doubles as an online boutique. The shelves hold handmade Batavia tableware, the Tanit collection and decorative fruit and vegetable pieces, alongside her original paintings and books.
Best for Handmade Provençal art ceramics and original paintings
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
Limoges, France
Deshoulières, founded in 1799, is France's largest porcelain manufacturer, running a Limoges factory outlet alongside its other French production sites. The group holds the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label and focuses on table-arts porcelain for both households and hospitality clients.
Best for French-made porcelain tableware, factory-outlet pricing
Aubagne / Provence / Online
Poterie Ravel produces substantial garden pots alongside tableware and decorative ceramics in Aubagne. The factory shop lets visitors compare scale, glaze and clay surfaces that are difficult to judge online.
Best for Provençal garden pots and ceramics from the Aubagne pottery house
Soufflenheim / Alsace / Online
Alsace pottery workshop for glazed ceramics, tableware, kugelhopf molds, and regional kitchen pieces.
Best for Glazed ceramics and kugelhopf molds from an Alsace pottery workshop
Limoges, France
Royal Limoges traces its manufacture to the late 18th century and still operates from 28 Rue Donzelot in Limoges, where it holds France's Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant living-heritage designation. The workshop produces both plain white porcelain and hand-decorated tableware, vases and cachepots sold direct through its own boutique and website.
Best for Heritage Limoges porcelain tableware
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