Portraits

Lily BAHUON

Elise BEAUVALLET

Specializing in restoring old books and graphic documents, « A Open Book » proposes travel plan creation kits and Binding discovery kits. Leathers and other materials French productions.

Daniel BETOULE

The manufacture Porcelaines de La Fabrique, created in 1825, is specialized in the high-end manufacturing 100% French white porcelain of Limoges. Combining traditional know-how and modern technologies, it offers unique creations. With an experienced team and an integrated study office, it responds to various technical demands, producing in small or large series. Recognized and reliable, she collaborates with the major luxury brands, guaranteeing precise, neat and high quality work.

Amandine BONNAU

Amandine Bonneau awakens a profession of French heritage, Rainfall. By its jewelry, the Méri-Li house makes forget the classic vision of feather by highlighting its radiance, texture, colors and movements. It is by the dyeing, the shaping and collage that the forms simmer, melt and respond. Meri- Li identifies with jewels and accessories of a harmonious and surprising elegance. sublime material, Environmentally responsibleThe pen reminds us that nature is a beautiful gift.

Lætitia BONNAUD

« The Arédian Emaux » offer original and contemporary jewellery and decorative objects. They invite us to dive into the brightness of the enamel thanks to the delicate technique of Up to date which involves dexterity and mastery of matter and cooking. Lætitia Bonneaud also uses Limoges-style painted enamel and 3D enamels, new and unique technique that combines several levels of enamelled parts the lights to create a decor.

As a designer, Anthony Bertoluzzi offers his own vision of the Ceramics. He shares his universe through singular production and colourful projects. At the edge of art, design and craftsmanship, Anthony Bertoluzzi offers cups, mugs and other objects, each of which is unique and completely functional. Preserving the traditional method of production, it always incorporates a gesture or technique coming from the « short circuit » in order to bring Original character.

Charlotte BOUYSOU

Kozhha is a small workshop of High leather goods created by Charlotte Bouyssou in 2018. It offers bags, small leather goods and jewelry. The Kozhha workshop is also two ranges: « Empreinte and Sclat ». One embodies the essence of French luxury, designed from carefully selected leathers, while the other explodes with colors, textures and personalities. Each piece is thought of as an accessory that does not just accompany a look but becomes its beating heart.

Moina COURIVAUD

The work of Moina Courivaud is related to Nature and Time. He has the ambition to witness both the fragility of our environment and its immense strength.

She uses the porcelain which offers surprising lightness, magical transparency and unexpected sound... modeling technique to make small-sized elements that it then assembles to create wall, light, decorative and functional compositions.

Pierre CAVALIER

The workshop has been located in Saint-Junien since 1969, in the heart of a region where tanneries and leather goods workshops have been present since the 11th century. The skilled craftsmen perpetuate ancestral know-how, adapting the manufacturing processes to the requirements of the modern world. Specializing in the production of belts, the workshop also manufactures handbags, watch straps, and many accessories. The company was taken over in 2023 by Pierre Cavalier, who revived the brand with a new identity and a completely renewed range.

Henri OF FREYSSINET

In 2019, Henry de Freyssinet took over a leather goods workshop specialized in leather products for the wine tourism sector. The know-how comes from a long experience accumulated and transmitted by his predecessor. The product range is entirely manufactured in the workshop in Dordogne. The leathers used are Italian or French, mainly to vegetable tanning, always with an increased requirement on the respect for environment.

Astrid DESACHED

Petit Grain de Peau is a artisanal leather goods workshop, created in 2017 in Targon, Gironde. Astrid Desaché offers a wide range of quality leather items, designed to meet our needs in terms of comfort, practicality and aesthetics. It carries out each stage of the development of a work, allowing it to have a more complete and stimulating relation to the material in the creation process.

Laetitia DUROUX

Self-taught, Laetitia Duroux is inspired by nature for its decorations, making paintings on leather crayon. It practices the techniques used for saddlery, leather goods or linogravure, allowing the manufacture of durable and atypical articles.

ESAT LES SEILLES (Establishment or Service of Work Assistance)

The project « Leather and Porcelain » is the result of a beautiful encounter between the Cité du Cuir, both committed to highlighting a link between human skills and noble materials. The initial idea was to value the leather falls promised to be thrown away, by creations that went allow ESAT workers to develop their skills. But by means of sharing, gestures and practices have been transmitted, know-how has been refined, until developing creativity.

Christelle FONTENOY

The Minaka Workshop is a workshop of silkscreen printing paper and textile created in late 2019. Christelle Fontenoy creates her own concepts that she hand printed. It is inspired mainly by nature and the Art Deco and Art Nouveau period for geometric and organic forms. It offers unique pieces or creations published in small quantities.

Alexandre FOURNIER

Specializes in the manufacture of pepper mills and other table arts objects, Alexandre Fournier develops collections offering shapes and styles of art. wood mixing modernity and color. A formation among the companions of the Tour de France allowed him to perfect the art of shooting on wood. He likes to understand wood as materials and play with his fibres and grain, making many other products such as corkscrews, shaving set and wooden pens.

Marie GATARD

Training in the fields of waxing, soap and perfumery, Marie Gatard is passionate about nature. She works wax in a way Traditional with vegetable materialss only such as rapeseed and coconut waxes, vegetable oils, clays, natural dyes, French perfumes, French beech wood wicks and Italian glassware. Every candle is Hand cast in his workshop.

Sophie GREGOIRE

When Sophie Grégoire took over from the Saint-Juniaud family business in 1988, she became the fourth generation to lead Agnelle. The manufacture of Agnelle gloves begins with the choice of high-end leathers. The cut is still made on large cherry tables and depending on the complexity of the finish, the gloves are sewn by sewing machine or hand. Leathers come from certified European tanneries, complying with strict environmental standards. Gantry know-how as a legacy resolutely geared towards innovation.

Romain GUENY

Les Cuirs d’Édoras proposent des articles faits main, créés à l’unité ou en petite série. C’est avec des sacs à bandoulière, des carquois et autres escarcelles, que Romain Guény nous invite dans un univers à thématique fantastique. Les coutures de ses ouvrages réalisées en point sellier en assurent la solidité. Les motifs de ses pièces sont réalisés avec une technique entièrement manuelle, le « repoussage ». Il utilise principalement du cuir obtenu par vegetable tanning. De très belles pièces à découvrir à la boutique de la Cité du cuir.

Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat

Le Moulin du Got fabrique du papier depuis le XVᵉ siècle. Il est le dernier des 24 moulins à papier que comptait la commune au XVIIᵉ et XVIIIᵉ siècles. Recherchant toujours l’innovation et l’originalité, les papetiers du Moulin confectionnent des papiers avec des épluchures de légumes et autres déchets végétaux. Après façonnage, ces papiers offrent de nombreuses possibilités de création. Ces éditions sont limitées et dépendent de la saison.