About us

Our Bristol workshop & showrooms have been restoring & supplying furniture now for over twenty years.

The Bristol Workshop


Two of the team live in Brittany & have spent a large part of their lifetime studying & tracking down desirable pieces.

Scott & Lynn



Scott & Lynns base in Brittany

From our rather curatorial view this means we know the exact provenance, age & history of everything we offer. For our clients’ perspective, they can obtain professionally restored functional furniture without paying for unnecessary middlemen.

One of our Bristol showrooms

Furniture can be seen as dividing into two categories. Furniture of an époque (Louis XV, Louis Philippe etc) varies little with region but corresponds to the national fashion of the period. Such pieces were typically for the wealthy elite. Regional furniture has a style, timber & decoration unique to an area. Most apparent in Brittany & Normandy, insularity leads to almost every town having its own forms. In Brittany in particular, pieces are often charmingly naive & fulfill the demand for pre-industrial furniture. The history and significance of decorative motifs places a piece in its social context & makes it somehow more immediate & special.

Bizarrely, most one or two hundred-year-old pieces are cheaper than their reproductions. The prices of our furniture compares favorably with department store wares or contemporary equivalent. The aim is functional & affordable. It just happens to come with a unique history & pedigree. We hold roomfuls of restored items and dozens of pieces in progress in Bristol. In France we typically have even more. We can usually ship a requested item straight from stock if you can describe it. This website is intended as a simple guide to French furniture and the range we typically hold in stock.

Ordering

We're fairly primitive: we accept cheques or cash, but don't take credit cards.

The items of furniture on these pages are one-off items. We try to update this site within 24 hours of selling a piece, but sometimes one will be displayed for a short while after it has been sold. Please contact us to check availability.

We can deliver items for a modest fee; within the UK for example, delivery of a big piece would typically cost £50-£100.