Arts and crafts New Aquitaine

In this art grocery store, you will find crafts and artistic creations, unique pieces imagined by about thirty designers to give a touch of fantasy to your home or to your outfit. Enter the house of the sweet Carine Souriau and discover her selection of poetic, offbeat and colorful objects. Installed on antique furniture, jewelry, bags, kits of all kinds, textiles, lighting, decorative objects and baby accessories abound. In the tea room, don't hesitate to pick from the delicatessen products.

Goicoechea: hand-crafted know-how, a memory of gestures repeated over more than 60 years devoted to ceramics to create unique artistic creations. In their magnificent workshop-boutique, you'll find the different worlds and collections of pottery: garden, decoration, tableware; timeless models and new ones every year. Visit this magical place and discover the different manufacturing techniques and the 800 m² store, with a view of the workshop!

Located in one of the most beautiful areas of France, this charming boutique is a must-see! What a pleasure to come in, chat with Amélie and discover her creations. This artisan wax-maker meticulously crafts sculpted candles and scented melts from quality raw materials such as perfumes from Grasse. The results are magnificent! Original and designer, these candles will add a decorative touch that's sure to make a lasting impression. Amélie also offers dry hot-water bottles for a moment of comfort.

Traditional Basque cutlery comes to life in the workshop-boutique of Christophe and Séverine Lauduique. Compagnon de Thiers, this true cutler brings forgotten models back to life. Christophe forges and hammers steel and damascus. Passionate craftsmen, they work the old-fashioned way with wood and horn, respecting ancestral gestures with a real cutlery ethic. In contrast to mass-produced knives, each piece is unique and for all budgets. At Couteau Basque, you're in the hands of a true cutler.

A shop animated by an artist, Olivier Roussel-Maserati; art craftsman, who offers to the eyes, two facets of his work; on the one hand the fancy jewel worked from noble materials and stones - coral, mother-of-pearl, precious wood... - that he searches for in South America, Himalayas, Asia... with a vision towards the ethnic groups of the whole world, and on the other hand, extraordinary sculptures in patinated bronze, alongside masterpieces made from culinary, medical material, etc. Push the door of this bright and inspired exhibition studio.

This is the right address to bring back a beautiful pocket knife from the country in your suitcases. Elegant and modern models, made according to tradition, are available in different collections. Inspired by the terroir and cultural heritage of several French territories with strong identities, they combine quality, originality and personalization: Corrèze of course, but also Brittany with Breizh Kontell, Alsace with Elsass and Languedoc with L'Occitan. During the visit to the workshop, visitors can watch the craftsmen at work.

This house has an exceptional ancestral know-how, 4 generations have succeeded each other at its head since 1910! The Tissage Lartigue 1910 brand was created, according to Philippe Lartigue, "in total respect with tradition and in accordance with our time and its ecological concerns". To do this, Lartigue products are "raw from the loom" without any chemical treatment of the fabric. Here, the history of Basque linen is told, from tradition to the secrets of the seven stripes. The workshop is open to visitors for a discovery of the looms and seamstresses in action, a small bathroom corner and the collection that goes with it, a kitchen corner with a staging ... Manufacturing its pieces on site and benefiting from a unique craft know-how, the brand is unavoidable and largely exceeds the borders of the Southwest and France. The last weaver faithful to the Basque tradition, Lartigue 1910 offers a factory outlet dedicated to tableware and kitchenware, superb tablecloths and napkins, bags, cushions, kits for a surprisingly high quality decoration and fabric by the meter. A great success with now 6 stores : Ascain, Bidos, Bayonne, Biarritz, Espelette and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and the obtaining in 2020 of the GI Label " Linge Basque " attributed to the companies which have a particular know-how and guaranteeing the origin of the linen produced in its workshops.

SAlon de thé, GAlerie d'art, BOUtique de créateurs? What is Mi-SaGaBou and is it really so important to label it? For Marie Rousseau, owner of the place, the most important thing is that you feel good. Here, the arts are combined with lunch and tea time. In this townhouse, refurbished to welcome us, artists and creators, local or not, come to exhibit their production. Jewelry, candles, frames, clothing for all: there are many gift ideas that parade according to the seasons.

Mojgan, a glass artist, opens her workshop-boutique to visitors interested in creating original, customizable stained-glass works. In the heart of old Bayonne, in an area dedicated to artisan workshops and boutiques, come and discover the exceptional work of our creator, originally from Teheran, who was inspired by her cultural environment without forgetting the refined and poetic nature of her native Persian culture. She offers introductory courses for all ages (from 8 upwards) in the techniques explored by the artist.

It's a showcase for some fifteen local artisans, a concentration of original creations! In the store and garden, you won't know where to turn. There are gift ideas to suit all tastes and budgets. Inside, pottery, leather goods, jewelry, soap, hats, bags, paint, wooden toys, ceramics, glass flowers... Colours, materials and shapes delight the eye. Outside, you'll find unique sculptures. Every day, a designer takes it in turns to run the store, providing an opportunity to talk about his or her craft and passion.

Christian Boncour is not only passionate about the blues - he is the director of the Blues Station in Tournon - but he also handles wicker with dexterity and opens his basketry workshop to you, a place of exhibition, sale, training and education. At his place, you can follow a one-week initiation course or a discovery day during which you make a basket and leave with it, and even a professional training.

The ARTelier de la Gartempe is Sylvie Edeline who offers courses and courses of painting, ceramic sculpture and calligraphy. Sylvie paints abstract landscapes, a kind of invitation to escape and reflection. And that's what it invites you to do if you decide to start the adventure. Trained at the National School of Decorative Arts in Limoges, she shares her passion with young people in the Vienna department and adults wishing to participate in the courses. Ceramic modelling, raku cooking, you will learn different modelling techniques (stretch, columbian, plate, blur, etc.). But Sylvie will also introduce you to the artist's book, notebook of notes, where his thoughts and plastic notions blend. Children's workshops are also possible. They can discover pictorial techniques, calligraphy, etc.

Marie-Christine has been a painter for twelve years since she chose to make her hobby a craft. In his shop-shop the painting is everywhere: on the walls it has washed with lime, on the furniture it decorations on order, on the ancient objects to which it gives life but also on the crockery, the jours of the lamps, the fabric (curtain, table, store, cushion), wood, glass… for having studied a multitude of techniques, Marie-Christine adapts to each object the one that will be appropriate for it better.

Sometimes unique, always in limited series, the objects distributed by this gallery of creators deserve, for once, the name "original". Mirrors, lamps, small furniture, mobile, various decorations, frames, painted glasses and other statuettes make up the necessarily eclectic stock of the small boutique. Prices start around 5 €! The opportunity in any case to offer gifts deliberately on the edge of fashion currents and already seen everywhere. Furthermore, it is possible to order its custom objects: lamps, wall, suspensions, frames, small furniture or mirrors - the colours of its home. In the same vein, add the possibility of making your wishes announced after a targeted request. Finally, a basement is reserved for paintings of paintings! Nothing to say, this is a great address!

In the country of the chestnut tree, the Richard family produces the superb split shingle, wooden tile, which covers church towers or facades of houses, including those of Mont-Saint-Michel.

Creation and restoration of art stained glass windows, fusing and tailor. Internships, exhibitions and sales.

Sculptor, stone tailor, restoration, rock.

Through her studio-boutique, Éliane invites you into a world of ceramics: unique works combining form and minerality with a mathematical resonance. Poetry and humor are omnipresent. In particular, the living, even animal, expression of the objects. The irregularity of shapes masks the perfect repetition of motifs, with archaeological, biological and seabed mineral influences. To discover.