Gift ideas Auvergne

Imagine a 110^m2 space with a cosy, trendy atmosphere, featuring a wide selection of home decor, accessories and ready-to-wear for men, women and children. You're at La Chouette, the emblematic concept store in Le Chambon. Here you'll find only quality products, made in Europe, made in France, and even made in Haute-Loire. Pénélope and Damien's expert advice will help you choose from brands such as La Fée Maraboutée, IKKS, Des Petits Hauts, Scotch & Soda, and Moulin Roty for children.

It is within a stone's throw of the abbey that Jean-Yves Sicre, a graduate of Yzeure's glassware, has installed his workshop and glass engraving shop. His creations are fine and original, on any type of support: verre glass, whisky, water jug or wine, vase, etc. It is possible to suggest to Jean-Yves a special pattern for engraving, to personalize the object. It also works in stained glass, from opening doors to the bibelot to suspend near a source of light. Do not hesitate to browse the catalogue of its achievements, this can put you on the track of a gift to offer.

Original and colourful furnishings for this store of unusual, junk and creative items, to offer for every occasion of life, family holidays and gifts between friends. Also gadgets, stuffed fabrics, textiles, licensed objects - Diddl, Titi, Betty Boop, Garfield… maps, ceramics, pens, adornments and small gift stationery, and many other humorous gifts.

If you're going to buy your cookies in Saint-Germain, you'll be surprised for the first time. You might expect to enter a business sales store! As a result, you find yourself in a very small boutique with a surprising decor with ice ceilings, light garlands, diverse objects. But very quickly another sensation will take the top, thanks first to the smell of fresh biscuits and to sight and envy in front of the tanks where you expect sacristains, cellulite, pucks, puff biscuits with or without candied fruit. You will also be very quickly conquered by the friendly de of the places custom with efficiency and good humour for decades. Here, the kind of house is not to cut a cookie in four to make the weight! You will taste before you buy, even if you know the product and you will have every chance to start again with some cookies for the road! This is what we have long loved Les Landon.

This atypical boutique has the particularity of having a vaulted room of the th century. There are historical or more fantastic medieval products. In collaboration with the medieval reconstruction companies, this trade is inevitable during the feast of the King of the Bird. Products made of leather, stone, tin, maps, jewellery, sculptures, games, books, wax and seals, weapons, decorative objects… which are mostly produced by artisans and the customer can ask to personalise. You will also find hypocras, mead, cervoise, époque and prepared dishes.

Florence offers her handmade soaps and cosmetics made in Auvergne for direct sale. She carefully chooses raw materials from organic farming and local plants. To discover: soap with local honey and rapeseed; solid shampoo with green clay, nettle and jojoba oil; hand balm with calendula or face oil with chamomile macerate. You can also find Florence at the organic market in Montaigut-le-Blanc on Wednesday mornings. Her products are also available in many local shops.

The former breakfast room with its large vaulted ceiling now offers a nice shopping trip to Tence. Installed in the former Hotel Placide, the hotel's boutique is a concept-store with a beautiful selection of products in a magnificent setting. Here you will find as much ready-to-wear as decoration, tableware... Inside, everything is beautiful, nicely arranged and delicately scented. Looking for ideas for a gift or a souvenir to bring back home? Don't hesitate to ask for advice, Pascale will help you with pleasure !

Are you on the lookout for bargains? Are you a fan of Jalouse(s) boutiques? Audrey Fontbonne has just the thing for you with her fourth boutique: Jalouse outlet, located just a few steps from the other stores. Here you'll find items from past Jalouse(s), Jalouse aux pieds nus and Very nice thing(s) collections... at half price! Sweaters, dresses, pants, tops, shoes and jewelry are also on sale, along with decorative objects. We love spending time in this boutique, finding our favorite brands (Bon baisers de paname, Suncoo, Coralie Masson, La Petite française...) and leaving with the piece we missed last season!

Magnificent store with a delicate and muffled atmosphere to discover for the simple pleasure of the eyes, to offer or to bring back a nice souvenir. Cushions, candles, chocolates, wines, soft sweaters, socks, sneakers, mugs. New items such as gingham espadrilles. Decorative objects reminiscent of the iconic tile chosen by those who make Vichy. Maison Moinet, Signature Vichy, Vichy Célestins, Le Domaine des Roches, Tissage Moutet, Caran d'Ache, Les Ateliers de la Grange... Stamped Vichy my love. Place your order online.

A top-of-the-range pocket knife, the Cellois shone in 2018 by winning the first Coutellia prize. It was a great spotlight on its creator, Nathalie Robin, co-manager of the workshop. Nathalie first learned from her husband Stéphane, who comes from a long line of cutlers, and who had won third place in the same competition in 2015. She then joined him in the arts and crafts adventure. Together, they have developed a range of sturdy knives, yet with a fine design reminiscent of Celtic lines, and where each piece is unique.

Bensimon is not just a fashion shop, shoes and déco, it is above all a concept store, an art of living imagined by the family house since 1975. Home around the World is one of the concepts of the ensign declined in some of the forty shops of the brand. In the Clermont clermontois store on the side of Bonnabaud Street, the Bensimon universe is expressed in a collection of women's ready-to-wear, accessories, decorative objects, crockery, contemporary small furniture, colourful cushions, bags that one would like to fill in mop… and, of course, a surprising stock and all the graceful sneakers colours.

Welcome to the world of potted and decorative candles, and other capillary diffusers. All the products come from the family workshop located in Charroux, in the Allier region. The particularity of these candles: their design is as ecological and qualitative as possible. In collaboration with analysis laboratories, the wax used is recycled. Everything is handmade. The candles are RAL certified. The choices are numerous, very numerous! Sweet, woody, flowery scents, you can find a banana candle as well as a basil or jasmine candle.

Store for scented candles with fragrances from Grasse and made from vegan soy wax. Enter a mystical universe, let yourself be bewitched by the Apothicaire collection, with its multiple scents and combinations of fine stones, by the magic powders neutralizing the bad smells of the vacuum cleaner, garbage cans, dressings. Available online and in stores, the melting burners and their particular aesthetics allow you to use your perfumed melts. Boxes to compose, designer jewelry, tea cups and semi-precious stones.

Located in the city centre just a stone's throw from Place de Jaude, Very Nice Things is a concept store that lives up to its name. A real Ali Baba's cave full of beautiful finds: women and little girl's clothes from the Spanish brand Nice Things Paloma S, selected for their graphic and colourful patterns, decorative objects including beautiful handmade ceramics by Myriam Ait Amar, crockery and scented candles... All the objects here have a deliciously vintage and offbeat side and are chosen with care. All the objects here have a little bit of vintage and deliciously offbeat and are chosen with care. All you need to find nice gift ideas or to treat yourself. The welcome is pleasant and efficient in a bohemian chic atmosphere.

This small boutique, a few steps from the abbey, honours objects made by craftsmen from the region. Open only in July and August, this is the ideal place to make an original and authentic gift. Among them are Mad's pottery and Gérard Migliori, who have their workshop in a restored farm just a few kilometres away (Berbezit). They experiment with techniques, including cendre ash on porcelain. The shop also offers wooden, leather, glazed and stained glass objects, plus jewellery.

After launching her concept online, Olivia Bourg has just opened a boutique in the center of Clermont-Ferrand. A former personal shopper, fashion is her department! You can find original fashion pieces, discovered by Olivia's trained eye. Here, the clothes are out of the ordinary offered by the big chains and all this at low prices, for a real fashionista's wardrobe without breaking the bank. On top of that, Olivia will explain how to wear and match your finds! You can also find some pretty decorative pieces.

Tobacco, press, lottery, gifts, an ideal location just a few dozen metres from the abbey and its parking and near the avenue de la gare. This is a reason enough to explain that the Le Cortes drains a crowd of people, employees, high school students, or revenant from Clermont-Ferrand, tourists visiting Saint-Austremoine… not to mention the attendance of Saturday morning, the market day. But the real reasons for this success are undoubtedly the kindness and availability never of the owners… and for nearly fifteen years.