Preamble
Assumed self-taught, since the age of 15 I have been redecorating living rooms around me (family, friends, girlfriends), but at the time I did not know that it could be a job. So I took the path that a guidance counselor had assumed was the right one, namely: the mechanics and the factory. Would I tell you that I was happy there? Absolutely not ! It is even quite the opposite that happened; I was slowly dying in a toxic environment where people are determined to "break" the human being for the sole benefit of the shareholders.
So I "took advantage" of the 2008 economic crisis and its global slowdown to leave the security of a stable job, live my own adventure and create my own business.
After a beginning strewn with pitfalls related to the economic context, my singularity and the inexperience specific to all business creators, I - each time - knew how to bounce back when others would have given up. And started to make a name for myself with a small but demanding public by surveying the flea markets of Rennes, Nantes or Paris.
My work shakes up all the established codes of furnishing and decoration.
A veritable free spirit of decoration as I define myself, my pieces now take pride of place in beautiful Parisian apartments, but not only... I don't just restore chairs, armchairs or sofas, coffee tables, kitchen and living room or any other piece of furniture. No ! I save them from certain death, convinced that customers who care about their environment and the footprint that will be left on future generations will agree to pay the REAL price of things (*) and will prefer to turn to eco-responsible furniture. so as not to constantly draw on the natural resources that our planet offers us.
No need to tell you that when - like me - we touch several trades, it annoys more than one...
Elegance and singularity are my guideline.
My furniture not only has a story to tell but paradoxically has never been so beautiful and up to date. I reinvent them, sublimate them and elevate them to the rank of true works of art. In each of my creations, the term unique piece takes on its full meaning.
I unashamedly combine the English classicism of a vintage Chesterfield with the Rock n' Roll attitude of Jean-Paul Gaultier, a Louis XV style chair with fabric with skull motifs. I transform an outdated Formica kitchen table into a superb tribute to great artists such as Roy Lichtenstein or Piet Mondrian. But beware ! I do not copy them, I am inspired by them, with my own codes, my own materials (compositions of earthenware, mirror glass, molten glass, mosaics and aluminum).
Another of my peculiarities is that I never restore a piece of furniture 100% (not always understood in a society to which we constantly explain that it deserves the best, that "it is well worth it" and even if that must have lead to a huge mess), I make it a point of honor to always leave a trace of the past, an accident, a mark of the time when you can still guess the friction of velvet pants on the wood of a table leg bistro from the 50s.
Exit the sadness (only commits me!) and the sobriety of a sanitized habitat and Mainstream, make way for the sweet madness of bright and colorful rooms that bring warmth and cheerfulness.
From this postulate, I thus created my own universe, unique, mixing Art with upcycling, the carelessness of the glorious thirties, and reinventing cocooning in an elegant way.
Good visit.
(*): because this constant search for furniture with great potential (whether through garage sales, flea markets or research on the internet), the reflection, the search for the right materials and the work brought to each of my pieces requires considerable time (and cannot be free).