Arts and crafts Haute-Savoie

The boissellerie manufactures a variety of Haute-Savoie handicrafts and furnishings directly on site, such as the poyas board, the preferred medium for local paintings depicting emmontagnage, and decorative wood lace, which can be seen in the large boutique chalet adjoining the workshop. Intrigued by the clarines and strange mushrooms carved into the wood outside, one discovers refined chiselings with Savoyard motifs. Tableware, letterboxes, decorations, games in natural wood or ready to paint. An incredible choice at a reasonable price!

Didier Perrillat-Monet is the last saddler in the Alps. He and his team work with leather. And it's in his native village that the master craftsman has his workshop-boutique (no visits for lack of space). Although the agricultural world accounts for 80% of his clientele - 200 belts each year - he also makes personalized pieces for decoration: bell necklaces, belts, wine cards, cheese trays, aprons, cases... in quality leather and vegetable-based leather. Authentic Haute-Savoie craftsmanship.

Lise Cassani's workshop can be discovered while walking on the Coux. Her creations have been exhibited throughout France and the world, and she is often present at regional markets. Her specialty is handmade pottery made of glazed clay that she decorates by hand. She gives a singular and colorful aspect to decorative or utilitarian objects. Visits are made in small groups by appointment, by telephone. Training courses are organized in summer, for young and old.

In his workshop in Morzine, Gérard Menu perpetuates an ancestral know-how which he claims to follow from the raw material to the final glazed and decorated object. Faithful to the traditional forms of the region and to the clay, he turns by hand: dishes, pots, oil dishes, bowls, plates... The patterns are respected in the purest Savoyard tradition: green and brown lines on a yellow ochre background, alternating brown and dark ochre dots. The pattern drawn can be an edelweiss or cows, made freehand. Each piece is unique !

This is a cabinetmaker who is passionate about his craft! Traditional manufacturing and assemblages: dress, stiles, ankles, arondes tails, keys… Its alpine furniture respects the rules of art and uses local essences of spruce, pine pine, birch, wood wood, etc. Jean Bortoli specialized in hand-shaped furniture. Outlays, gives, bonnetière… unique, custom-made, custom-made pieces, in the studio of the peaceful hamlet of Chamoule. A typical style and manufacture of the Alps! It also manufactures contemporary furniture by combining wood essences and materials of steel, stone, glass… Know-how and quality realization!

The workshop store offers more than a nice souvenir of local craftsmanship: the sound of the mountains! For 6 generations, the Devouassoud family has been making clarines, s'nailles, bells... pretty bells and bell rings that are proudly worn by cows in the Alps and elsewhere. All the bells bear the family stamp since 1829. Ancestral manufacturing for bells stamped, forged, closed and riveted in the workshop, and covered with brass or copper in the oven.

It will soon be 20 years since Julie set up store in the old family farmhouse, now transformed into an ATELIER-boutique. The potter works glazed earthenware on the wheel, for both culinary and decorative purposes, with simple lines and cheerful, colorful decorations. Permanent or ephemeral collections and custom creations punctuate her days. The boutique adjoins the workshop, which can be visited when Julie is at work. She also sells her creations at local designer's markets - to be followed on her online calendar.

Born in Geneva, originally from Annecy, after graduating in Art from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Dijon in 1987, Gilles Giacomotti moved to the United States in 1994 and began his artistic career in New York where he created and produced works on parquet floors for his clients, architects and decorators. He returned to France in 2008, continuing his activity and developing it on wall panels, furniture and wooden carpets, an innovative concept that he has just launched. In love with his lake and mountains, he is known more locally through his series of "Bleus du lac". Gilles Giacomotti thus revisits the most beautiful shores of the lake. His paintings are tinged with intense blues, colours dear to the artist, inviting us to contemplation. The landscapes carry the reminiscences of a childhood spent on the shores of Lake Annecy and translate the attachment that the artist keeps for this colourful city. Influenced by his American experience and his eclecticism, both classical and contemporary, he likes to paint on large formats. His paintings highlight the beauty of the lake and its environment with shades of blue based on water tints that he degrades by superimposing layers of glaze, all in transparency in order to reveal the grain of the wood, its knots and its material. From one shore to the other, he explores the most beautiful sites, the most beautiful views by capturing the light, the contours, the reflections, the atmosphere and paints the identity of the places, especially Lake Annecy, his home. This autumn, in partnership with the Organdi Home Décoration boutique and Carole Giraudon, he is launching a collection of panoramic wallpapers from Les Bleus du lac. A meditative view of the lake that everyone will be able to contemplate from home to imagine their inner journey.

What could be nicer than regional crafts? To put it in the spotlight in a store open every day at this entrance of the old town of Annecy! A real art gallery open to artists and craftsmen from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (by the way, you can apply to be exhibited in your turn). It is therefore difficult to say what creations you will discover during your visit to the faubourg, but we can guarantee you that the welcome will always be kind to present you, in a charming setting, fashion accessories, jewelry, paintings, but also decorative objects (very nice lights...) or ceramics. A very nice store.

Isabelle Géréec's atelier-boutique in Évian-les-Bains offers unique, contemporary jewelry in an atypical setting. The designer creates original pieces in gold and silver that you won't find anywhere else. In addition to her collection, she offers custom creations, transformations of antique jewelry and repairs. She also offers personalized jewelry courses, during which you can make your own wedding rings. It's an address not to be missed for those interested in the world of jewelry and modern jewelry.

In her boutique workshop, the craftsman Viviane Wolf generously shares her proven mosaic skills. Exhibition of her creations, realizations on demand, courses and training courses, invitation of a peer artist, everyone can find here the formula that suits him to initiate himself to this millenary art that comes to shake up the freshness of this artist trained in textile art then in mosaics in Geneva and with master mosaic artists in France and abroad. Viviane was named first prize of the City of Paris in textile art, which will allow her to represent France in Japan; then she decides to explore mosaics. She is one of the six founders of the association Mosaïque Contemporaine in Rhône-Alpes. His work is multiple: from the individual work to the collective realization, from the artistic sculpture to the decorative floor, from a piece of a few square centimetres to a fresco of several square metres. In relief or in volume, his passion is expressed as a journey where shapes and colours are reflected in an infinite play of light. To be discovered on the shores of Lake Annecy.