2022 will be a time of renewal, as the company will be handed over to Christophe Martin in July 2021 by Christine Duval and Jean-François Perche (owners and managers since 2009). “It’s a new chapter for this more than one-hundred-year-old company, which is shaking up the codes of art cabinetmaking while cultivating traditional know-how and an extraordinary heritage,” declares its new president.
After some fifteen years at the head of a group specializing in corporate services, Christophe Martin changed his life and entered the world of luxury goods, where the key values are precision of gesture, rarity of materials, the cultivation of exceptional know-how and the time required for artistic craftsmanship. A singular world quite different from what he knows. Fascinated by his exchanges with Christine Duval and Jean-François Perche, he understands that “they didn’t pass on a company, but a House.
It’s this uniqueness that catches the eye when you walk through the door of the Bourg-en-Bresse workshops: a preserved treasure, one of the very last French workshops to master every stage, from design, development, manufacture and production, right through to the finishing touches that give that indefinable touch to pieces that seem to have always existed. On his first visit, Christophe Martin discovers craftsmen with unique skills, top-notch workmanship and creatively audacious pieces with an extra soul. The famous Moissonnier impertinence to boot. He meets craftsmen “with exceptional talents and mastered gestures. Personalities who are passionate about woodworking and their craft.”