THE TOP 5 HIGH-END FRENCH FURNITURE BRANDS

The interior design and furniture market has never experienced such enthusiasm as in recent years. While it’s true that the health crisis, with its successive lockdowns and travel restrictions, has resulted in a certain propensity for retreating into one’s home and cocooning, it has only reinforced two trends that were already strongly evident well before 2020.

As we know, France is the beating heart of interior design: it is full of designers whose reputations have spread worldwide. It is in France, in fact, that we find some of the most influential luxury furniture brands on the planet, those who set trends and are continually moving at the forefront of style.

FURNITURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN: A MARKET THAT IS NOT AFFECTED BY THE CRISIS

A study carried out by Allied Market Research in 2020 (and cited by Les Échos ) clearly shows that the growth of the decoration and furniture sector is far from being a simple fad: this market is expected to be worth a whopping $840 billion per year between 2020 and 2027, compared to $617 billion for 2019. In France, we are talking about the tidy sum of €26 billion per year, including €12.73 billion for the furniture sector alone.

THE TOP 5 FRENCH LUXURY FURNITURE BRANDS

So, what are the top-of-the-range brands favored by the French? Who are the absolute must-have luxury furniture designers in France? That’s what we invite you to discover through this Top 5.

HUGUES CHEVALIER

In nearly half a century of existence, Hugues Chevalier has carved out a name for himself among the great French designers by offering his own modernized vision of Art Deco furniture. The brand combines artisanal know-how with a pronounced taste for design, in a segment (the very high-end) that makes custom-made an aesthetic choice – luxury furniture designed as unique pieces, for individuals as well as for professionals.

It would be wrong to believe that the high-end sacrifices comfort on the altar of form. At Hugues Chevalier, this form is intentionally pure and harmonious, in order to suit all uses, and without ever losing sight of good French taste. The brand chooses to reinterpret timeless classics while adding a touch of personalization, so that each luxury piece of furniture in the home becomes a work of art in itself.

LIGNE ROSET

If there’s one French brand synonymous with “luxury furniture,” it’s Ligne Roset —a sister brand to another brand that resonates with design lovers worldwide, Cinna. For 150 years, the company has been characterized by a perpetual flight forward: a consuming desire to be at the forefront of trends and to create fashions in interior design.

ROCHE BOBOIS

Roche Bobois is THE luxury furniture brand that embodies a certain idea of ​​”French” decoration and, at the same time, one of the undisputed leaders in high-end furniture worldwide.

Over the decades, Roche Bobois has built its reputation on big names in contemporary furniture design (like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Sonia Rykiel and Joana Vasconcelos), responsible for designing pieces each with their own personality, like so many odes to style and creativity. With one goal, the same for 60 years: to make furniture a decorative object in its own right.

LOUIS ROITEL

The specialty of the Louis Roitel house is custom-designed stylish seating, without ever compromising on quality or innovation. These requirements have earned the brand the trust of the most important designers in France since its founding in 1867.

LUCK

The La Chance brand aims to reinterpret the French tradition of ornamental and decorative furniture, bringing a touch of contemporaneity mixed with uninhibitedness. In doing so, it produces distinctive, always bold pieces that combine comfort, functionality, and a strong creative identity: luxury furniture, lighting, rugs, and accessories. The quality is there, the materials are noble, and the design is at once sophisticated, rich, and graphic.

In addition to its main collection, which gives free rein to the imagination of the most prestigious names in the contemporary design world, La Chance offers custom creations, made in collaboration with a team of specialized artisans from all over Europe.

Each piece is thus manufactured and finished by hand, in northern Italy (for the seats and upholstered pieces), in eastern Europe (for the metalwork), and in France (for the final assembly). Rugs are an exception: they are certainly made outside Europe, but in regions renowned for their ancestral know-how, such as India and Nepal.