A small house
on the Left Bank.
MAISON ÉCLAT was founded by the sculptor Hélène Marchais in a former carriage workshop on the Left Bank. For nearly four decades, the atelier has worked in the slow tradition of the European decorative arts.
We are not a brand in the contemporary sense. We are a small atelier — fourteen people — making objects one at a time, in a single workshop, with materials we have known for decades.
We do not produce, we do not scale, we do not license. We work in editions, and when an edition closes, the form is closed.
The objects in our editions are not for everyone. They are for people who want to live with one or two of them for a long time — people who notice when a patina has changed, who understand what a year of slow work looks like.
Sourced, not purchased.
Bronze from a foundry in Lyon we have used since 1991. Marble from a single quarry in the Aosta Valley. Silk woven on a loom in Lyon that has been in operation for two hundred years. We do not buy from a catalogue.
Made by one maker.
Each piece is built, finished, and signed by a single maker. When a piece is sold, the buyer's name and the maker's name are recorded in the atelier's ledgers — a record that now fills fourteen volumes.
Numbered, dated, signed.
Every piece carries a hand-written certificate of authenticity, signed by the maker and the founder. The number, the date, and the buyer's name travel with the piece for the rest of its life.
The room does not need the centrepiece. It needs the quiet piece that holds it down.
The atelier is a
small, slow place.
7, rue de l'Atelier, 75007 Paris
France
By appointment — Tuesday to Saturday