Home decoration and garden stores Vietnam

Eco Chic Shop is the concept of Metiseko, a ready-to-wear and household linen brand developing its own network of boutiques in Vietnam. A beautiful boutique featuring products designed and manufactured in Hội An. Organic materials for the fashion and homeware collections made from organic fabrics, with great refinement in colors and patterns inspired by travel and the luxuriance of the tropics. The designers are French and committed to social and environmental responsibility.

The engraving of seals used by scholars was a traditional activity in the capital. An ancient art that had almost disappeared, but resurrected thanks to the tourists' craze for an original and customizable souvenir. The design is first traced on paper, then the inverted pattern is engraved on the tiny space of the stamp with a wood chisel. Choose from a catalog of traditional designs or create your own. The price depends on the size and complexity of the design.

Craft Link is a Vietnamese non-profit organization whose objective is to promote fair trade by helping artisans access new markets in the context of a transition economy. It provides assistance in marketing, quality control and product adaptation, and is directed at marginalised producers as a matter of priority: ethnic minorities, street children, disabled… The products presented (ceramics, textiles and soies embroidered…) are beautiful gifts to offer or to offer.

Charming little shop next to the workshop-garden where Nguyên Xuân Nguyên officiates. Painter and ceramist, his creations are delicious and colourful, even impertinent. It is open to all suggestions and its oven welcomes the works of inspired customers. The shop, which has been designed with western tastes in mind, offers an assortment of small plates, bowls and vases with original shapes and designs, which can be easily slipped into luggage and will make great gifts or souvenirs. The prices are a little higher, but the objects are unique...

A shop a little far from the tourist centre, but worth the trip if you want to offer or give yourself a somewhat exceptional gift. Very beautiful objects (trays, vases, etc.) in lacquered wood. It takes almost a year to make some pieces, which explains a price that may seem high, but it is not, given the exceptional quality of the work. They are always unique pieces made by hand according to the traditional techniques of Vietnamese lacquer (son ta), a thousand-year-old tradition

South of Hoen Kiem Lake, a small store offering a wide range of ceramic products from Bat Trang village: bowls, plates, tea sets, vases, dishes... Excellent gift ideas, within reach of all budgets, with a wide variety of styles and decorations that should satisfy all tastes and lovers of traditional arts. Everything is hand painted and no two pieces are alike. There is no shortage of shapes and colors to choose from, and you'll be happy to linger in this store.

Reaching out exists "by and for disabled people", says founder and manager Lê Nguyên Binh, who has paralyzed legs and his right hand. All the beautiful products on offer are made by people with disabilities, and the proceeds from sales go to help them. The catalog, featuring unique creations (embroidery, lacquerware, jewelry) that make superb gift ideas, is available on the website. Recommended address.

Bedspreads, sofa throws and other wall decorations. All of these products are produced by the village women of Duc Linh in northeast Saigon as part of a programme set up by the NGOs Viêt Nam Plus and Mekong Plus and are designed to create sustainable employment for disadvantaged women in remote and rural areas of Vietnam and Cambodia . All profits from the sales go to the workers and are reinvested for the benefit of rural communities located north-east of Ho Chi Minh City (school scholarships, health programmes, etc.).

This address is the showroom of the decorator Catherine Denoual. This talented epicurean cultivates the arts of the bed and the table. Arrived in 1995 in Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville, the Parisian discovered a passion for interior design. Her talent is recognized by renowned magazines. She offers a wide range of linen-based products: pillowcases, sheets, cushions, bed throws..., but also for table linen: tablecloths, napkins, etc. All made with care and with the concern of elaborating unique pieces.

For decades, the famous Mr. Pham Ngoc Toan, the owner of this shop (his family has been in the carpentry business for 5 generations), has been faithful to his job. Rain or shine, he is at work, handling the chisel with dexterity, engraving a stamp, with concentration under the fascinated eye of the customers. In another life, Mr. Pham Ngoc Toan was a physics and mathematics teacher. Wooden stamps made by hand, pattern to choose from the fifty or so models or to create. Also in wood, very beautiful traditional cake molds.