Arts and crafts Champagne-Ardenne

Francis Beaumont is a cabinetmaker and thommessen of furniture. With its company, BEAUMONT FURNITURE, it offers a complete service in the design and decoration of your interior: tapestry for the renovation of your seats (traditional linen trim) and cabinetmaking for the restoration of your furniture. He also designs and carries out seats, joining his two know-how, to offer you original and especially unique pieces.

Once the champagne has been drunk, Marsault gives the bottle a new life! In this boutique, discover up-cycling à champenoise where champagne bottles, once emptied of their contents, are transformed into original creations, candles, vases and boards. The bottles are cut and sanded to accommodate eco-responsible candles with fragrances evocative of our beautiful terroir: Montagne de Reims, Côte de Blancs, Vallée de la Marne, Champenoise... And to round things off, the bottles are also available in a "Vigneronne" vase and, once melted, in a "Cochelet" board to elegantly present your aperitif and add a touch of Champagne to your tasting!

Richard and Martine Osik, artisan craftsmen, self-taught, registered in the Chamber of Trades since 1985, welcome you in their lovely boutique that displays pottery clay made of sandstone clay from Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye in their workshops. Here we find all kinds of clay objects: Lamps, pots, dishes, decorations… of all colors, some news and others less. There is a lot for everyone. It should not be missed: the tour of the workshop, which will make you discover the techniques and the different stages of manufacture. All products on sale are manufactured on site.

On the main street, Claude Varlet's workshop is without difficulty. Here, place of artisan work with a beautiful presentation of everything he manufactures in the workshop adjoining the store: beautiful decoration skins, deer, cow, veal, leather masks, mirrors… There's really for all tastes. Côté maroquinerie, we also find handbags, purses, offering. Classic or original, hooves, galoches, waterlines and the famous mouton slippers. Side price, count € 80 for a goat's skin, € 40 for a board and original vases covered with leather modelled from 12 €. Gift ideas and other souvenirs of holiday are not missing and are happy with the wallet. Claude also executes the object that suits you. The shop showcases the creations of other artisans, especially on the occasion of Mother's Day.

In front of the church of the village, you can reach the small boutique by Nicole Gierek. Inside, we appreciate the meticulous work that has been put in place by light lighting. Painted bristles, miniatures, jour, paintings it composes. We also love the many jewelry that it manufactures. Creation or restoration, the finesse of work and colours delight researchers in art crafts. A beautiful address for original gift ideas.

The principal employer of the canton, the Établissements manufacture rubber boots in Châteauvillain entirely handmade, a unique know-how transmitted from the masters bottiers to apprentices since 1927. 150 people work there today and need to know that each boot is unique and requires more than 150 manual operations, then they are cooked in autoclave and finalized in the workshops. They are mainly intended for hunting, horse riding, walking, oyster oyster, sailors, sauveteurs at sea…

It's on a small street near the church that is this little boutique. In a renovated house and a refined framework, basketry production is highlighted: The Trolley, bakery baskets, towels, a convenient drawer. The host will tell you that in the area of wicker, everything is possible. Proximité-Log, the Basketry capital of Basketry, will be pleased to offer you a good overview of the articles made available in wicker. And if you become "mordu" of this art, go to Fayl-Log.

The pottery workshop, created in 1959, is led by Julien Tessier, the founder's son. He saved the oven, recovered in the ceramic factory, which allows to cook pottery and porcelain, old remnant of the village ceramic plant. From one m ³, up to a temperature of 1350 ° C, it would be useful to many creators. A small phone call before the planned visit is desirable to ensure the artist's availability.

Lovers of fine curves and beautiful objects, let's see Mr. Brother without hesitation. This artisan was the best worker in France for plumbing in 1976 and metalwork of art in 1982. He will let you discover his workshop by appointment. Established in Illy in the Ardennes since 1975, he creates and carries out all your work in wrought iron and metalwork of art and plumbing and locks.

An ancestral knowledge has been perpetuated since 1640 in this workshop: glassmaking. The masterpiece of the corporation, a simple glass decorated with enamel, created by Pierre Simon nearly four centuries ago, marked the beginning of a long family tradition of master glassmakers in Reims. The company has since evolved, serving the inspiration of great contemporary artists such as Marc Chagall, Joan Miró or Roger Bissière. The workshop has been dedicated to the restoration of old stained glass windows for 12 generations now, as well as to the creation of religious stained glass windows, but also to exclusive creations for companies and individuals on the request of architects and designers.

Trained at Boulle School, which in itself is a serious reference, Didier Romagny, in his Asfeld workshop, performs customized furniture and custom fixtures. This craftsman-maker works on order, unit or small series. He carries out cabinets, commodes, tables, cupboards and kitchen fixtures, libraries and storage cabinets. Do you inherit antique furniture? Didier Romagny will remind her of his antan of yesteryear. You will be able to entrust less romantic missions such as gates, doors, windows and parquet floors, and will perform them with great seriousness and passion. Do not hesitate to contact him to expose your projects and know that he is moving within a radius of kilometres.

Jean-Philippe Turello has his art work for 25 years and the time came for him to transmit knowledge. It offers lessons and courses, accessible both beginners and insiders. Do not hesitate to contact it, you can find a place among its students. Also discover his creations by visiting the workshop. Jean-Philippe Turello makes gush out of the stone busts, chests, columns, bas-reliefs, but also creates fireplaces and furniture combining the stone with other materials. Do not miss this opportunity to meet a real artist.

Alain Dupont is an upholsterer who has been working in the old train station in Autrecourt since 2003. He was awarded the 2004 SEMA Departmental Prize and specializes in the restoration and sale of period, stylish and contemporary chairs.

After several years of training and experience with different saddlers, Georges MARCHAL created his own tapestry studio in 1981 in Nouzonville. There, it is therefore devoted to the restoration of seats of the th century. He also carries out all your work of curtains and curtains and all the rehabilitation and creation using furnishings to restore their identity to your older or more current seats.

Thierry BROCHAYE, thommessen of furniture and thommessen-decorator, makes for you all your work of double curtains, inner and outer blinds, but also your beds, your seats, your mural drapes,… He performs works and for individuals and for businesses and communities what has earned him the best of the decoration of the castle of Sedan'bicentennial.

Nicolas Peroche trained in a Master Verrier before creating his company in March 2008. Today, it creates and restores windows for both individuals and local communities. Using traditional techniques such as fusing, it restores parts dating from 1850 to the present. It also offers mirrors, glass jewelry… and other objects revealing all its art.

In 2003, Maryse MAILLARD-FELIX discovered the art and technique of glass, first by using stained glass windows and then by the fusing, a technique that allows artistic creation without limit. Its clientele consists of individuals and communities. It also restores the windows, which you can discover at one of the guided tours to which it invites you. Maryse MAILLARD-FELIX also organizes internships. Thus in one afternoon, with 55 euros included, it gives you discover the history of the glass, its composition and the different techniques that transform it, you learn to cut it and even extend your initiation by making a panel of 20 cm x 28 cm. Or, over a week, for 490 €, it forms the technique of traditional lead stained glass stained glass windows and accompanies you to make a selection of 10 models or even glass painting.
 

Sînok circus, it's a little shop-shop where you blend shapes and colors to create strange, naive little things in a childish mind, where you'll find nice monsters, children's or ladies'bags, accessories, such as wallet or wallet. And you can also, if you have a particular request (colors, fabrics, format,…), let them know and your room will be made according to your choices. Sînok circus (the shop) is therefore a place where you will be able to discover and buy unique models, or very small series, entirely handmade, that you can also find at Tatie Eyed, rue du Moulin in Charleville-Mézières, the brand and models being deposited at INPI. 

Eric PAHON works in turn or on the plate to create modern, light and coloured ceramics, whether it be objects of the table arts or jewellery. Its shop-shop, Eastern Lands, is located in the small village of Sophia de Sapogne and Feuchères, located 12 km from Charleville-Mézières and 9 km from Sedan. Eric Pahon, a ceramic specialist, works and presents his achievements in sandstone every weekend, shaped pieces over the weeks. Every Saturday morning, he défourne about 15 pieces after a cook from 00 h 1280 (progressive climb at 19 ° c), available in his pretty little shop to present them on Saturdays from 14 am to 00 pm and Sunday from 14 am to 18 PM.

Jean-Luc PIROT creates unique pieces, such as pots, vases, bowls and wall panels… for his private clientele, as well as to answer public orders. But he also puts his art at the servivce of his clientele and, to meet his needs or desires, he also carries out order works such as luminaires, fountains, table services or even trophies…. He proposes a guided tour (2 €) and even practical (10 € with a piece) of his studio and the courses to learn the different techniques of filming, modelling, enamel and cooking.