The Story and values of Mon Petit Meuble Français
Mon Petit Meuble Français vernissage - launch in 2018 of the brand of exceptional solid wood furniture made in France
galery window with solid wood console table by Eric Gizard for Mon Petit Meuble Français vernissage at Paris Design Week 2018.
White oval console in solid wood, designed by Eric Gizard for Paris Design Week 2018
Mon Petit Meuble Français vernissage - launch in 2018 of the brand of exceptional solid wood furniture made in France
MON PETIT MEUBLE FRANCAIS officially starts in September 2018 with a magnificent vernissage-exhibition during Paris Design Week in Eric Gizard's gallery where the first pieces of the EGEE collection are presented.
For the record, 2 Eric(s) with a passion for French craftsmanship decided to combine their skills and launch a new designer furniture brand at a time when French furniture was beginning to be in very short supply. Since then, Le Petit Meuble has been developing new models every year, and still makes all its designs 100% in France.
With MON PETIT MEUBLE FRANÇAIS we only offer exceptional design furniture with "signature" collections designed by great designers.
Our furniture is 100% made in France and finished only upon receipt of the order. They take a "premium" position in a furniture market that is overwhelmingly marked by standard imported products, in kit form, not very ecological and often unsustainable.
We are committed to:
QUALITY:
we deliver furniture made with wood noble species: ash, oak and cherry. We only buy wood qualities 1 and 1+. The craftsmanship ensures the robustness and very long life of your furniture. The finishing is always done manually and piece by piece. By receiving furniture already assembled in the workshop by professionals, you will see the difference day after day with standard furniture purchased in series and delivered "ready to assemble".
DESIGN:
we have chosen to select French designers with different talents and sensitivities offering furniture with clean lines and highlighting the natural beauty of wood. Eric Gizard, with his EGEE collection, sublimates the furniture thanks to very fluid lines and a very beautiful palette of muted colors.
Proudly locally made to order
ECONOMY OF PROXIMITY:
the wood comes from French forests. Headquarters, offices, manufacturing, finishing, storage and transportation are spread over less than 150 km. We only work with craftsmen from Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine.
It takes less than 30 minutes to cover the distances between offices, stocks and showroom, manufacturing and finishing. Our cabinetmakers are divided between the departments of Ille et Vilaine and Mayenne. This allows us to devote all our time to making your furniture, without jet lag or customs formalities. The quality is of course affected. Sawmills and transporters are established in the regions of Brittany and Pays de la Loire. All our wood comes from sustainably managed French forests. The designers work in Paris and Vendée
CUSTOMIZATION:
we offer several finishes and colors for each piece of furniture thanks to a configurator installed on the product sheet. If you would like other colours, we will develop your duplicate and have it approved for you before finishing your furniture. If our lines inspire you but you want different sizes or modifications, we also make custom-made furniture.
ECOLOGY:
our ecology is daily and pragmatic, we use solid wood and veneers from sustainably managed French forests. We use water-based "hydro" varnishes whenever we can. Proximity also reduces transport and minimizes CO2 emissions.
Personnalized meticulous finishing
11 standard colors are available for the EGEE collection. Just click on the colored circles next to the pictures to visualize them.
Differences in colorimetry between screen may affect your perception of the real color. There is a also a difference between the color as you see it on your screen and this very same color once applied to your solid wood furniture.
If the color is always slightly different, we are committed to a very high quality finish with muted and very trendy colors.
If you cannot find your favorite color among the colors offered, please contact us to let us know your wishes.
Any support to specify your desire or project will be welcome: sketches, color charts, internet links, photos, pieces of wood or HTML code. If needed, we will develop a new color especially for your unique furniture.
When we match your color, we will do a first application test on wood and send it to your validation. The cost of this "countertype" is 100€ + taxes and shipping costs
Quality in details
The quality of manufacture, finish and service is our raison d'être.
By knowing and regularly meeting all the craftsmen we have selected for the manufacture and finishing of the furniture, we are sure of their expertise, their equipment and their benevolence. They are located in Brittany and Pays de la Loire and are specialists in solid and veneered wood. We have been working together for over 5 years.
For a beautiful piece of furniture, you first need beautiful raw materials. We buy our lots of trees exclusively from French forests and in qualities 1 and 1+ or A and A+.
The work is then carried out with traditional manual machines (moulder, framer, spindle moulder, tenoner, queuteuse, etc.) for the machining of the parts, manually taken over if necessary during the assembly of the piece of furniture.
The traditional cabinetmaking process that we achieve guarantees the quality of our furniture. Depending on the furniture, you will find dovetail, tenon-mortise and tongue-and-groove assemblies. The finish requires optimum sanding of the parts for a very careful application of the wood colors carried out with a spray gun or brush. A hard bottom, ginning, a very meticulous application of colored lacquers, then a surface varnish complete this slow process.
We finally check each finished piece of furniture and then install, if necessary, the ornamental hardware before pick-up.
CUSTOMIZATION: a few achievements made for our customers
customized CHEST OF DRAWERS
This furniture for an entry hall was inspired by the EGEE Line from Eric Gizard - Paris.
This customized chest is fitted with 2 drawers with a "push-loose" opening and a flap door with inner fittings for gewgaws.
Solid and veneer ash
standard color: Bleu Gris Léhon
Width 45 / 17.7" x Height 125 / 49.2" x Depth 46 / 18.1" cm / inches
Ecological & Human Care
solid wood
is a noble and natural material. It comes directly from the felled tree and is transformed into planks, cleats, backs, bottoms... solid wood furniture is warm, durable and UNIQUE.
On the contrary, chipboard, plywood, melamine or laminated medium panels are made with wood particles (waste or fibers) bound together with phenol-formaldehyde resins, or volatile and toxic chemical substances such as isocyanates.
By preferring solid wood for our furniture, we favor Nature and Health.
proximity preserves ecology
social ecology
Short distances have a direct and positive impact on the carbon footprint and the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions.
To transport a buffet throughout France, the energy consumption for manufacturing and delivery is around 3 MJ. The quantity of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere is approximately 1.5 kg. The other part comes from Asia and particularly from China. The same buffet combined boat + truck consumes approx. 7 x more energy and reject 10 x more CO².
Another part of the furniture sold in France comes from Southern Europe or Eastern Europe. Transport by truck consumes 4 x more energy and rejects approx. 7x more CO².
short circuit = green course!
is lived on a daily basis in an environment where the risks are reduced. For example, the manufacture of furniture in France is subject to very strict regulations for wood dust with a threshold 25 times lower than the European standard and "infinitely" lower than the threshold for Asian countries.
We also use as soon as possible new water-based varnishes when finishing raw furniture
Safety conditions at work, working hours, weeks off and the entire French social ecosystem in which MON PETIT MEUBLE FRANCAIS participates are also factors of social ecology.
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Eric Gizard: pure and wonderful EGEE
"From Eric's interventions we retain above all an impression of elegance and harmony. Beyond the general impression, we pay attention to these astonishing and refined imprints, distilled both in the places he creates and in the objects he draws. Eric Gizard likes to warm up the contemporary by organizing the light according to the shadows. When he takes on his role as a designer, we find him inspired by his French culture of decorative arts and his creative originality. It will testify to his taste for simple and fluid forms, obvious and yet original." Andrée Putman
Eric launches with his new EGEE collection a 100% French collection that is pure, beautiful, timeless and of a stunning but very deceptive simplicity.
The lines, dimensions and colors chosen for this multi-function furniture completely correspond to the new current lifestyles. The 9 standard colors proposed for each piece of furniture dress up its furniture with magnificent "short pants". The top and base of each piece of furniture is coated with a white veil and a protective varnish. These characteristics imply a masking of each part of the furniture. Very precise work is necessary during the finishing, in particular around the demarcations of bleached areas and those colored.
Each EGEE piece of furniture adopts an inclined base without hardware, no foot protrudes from the top to avoid the risk of tripping over the piece of furniture. The section of the legs and the thicknesses of the top guarantee a secure support and a long life for your piece of furniture.
Eric chose solid ash for its purity and soft grain that makes you want to run your hand over it. The ash seduces immediately for its slightly gray whiteness which underlines the purity of the minimalist design, Scandinavian type, of this collection of furniture.
The result is a stunning quality, softness and precision! the perceived quality of EGEE is only completely appreciated by its touch. Discover all its finesse and authenticity in Eric's showroom in Paris.
Christophe Lecomte achieves with STELLA the alliance of design and classic style.
ESAA graduate of the BOULLE school in 1990, Christophe Lecomte began his career in advertising for cosmetics before joining the furniture industry. His technical knowledge and his passion for furniture naturally encouraged him to create his first collections for major furniture brands. It navigates very easily between emotion and function with as permanent benchmarks: the elegance and ergonomics of the furniture.
With the STELLA collection, Christophe decides on a range that can use the finest classic wood species with cherry, fine and pink, and oak, harder, very resistant and straight.
Each piece of furniture in the collection is therefore available in these 2 species. His furniture uses solid wood and veneer parts.
The proposed lines embrace a relationship between the past and the present. The structures seduce with their contemporary straight, rectangular or square shapes. The piece general style s softened with curves in doors, drawers or table belts.
The cabinet craft work remains very traditional and manual with tenons and mortises and a dovetail assembly for the drawers for a high-end quality piece.
Christophe Lecomte signs a beautiful alliance of style and design
