History

Les Ateliers Honoré: Metallic Flora and Fauna

The 1970s were undoubtedly a highly productive and innovative period for French interior design. Numerous artistic and architectural creations emerged during this time. Amid this abundance of creativity and inventiveness, a very distinctive style of furniture emerged, primarily composed of metal. This style would itself inspire many artists well into the early 1990s.

In the early 1980s, husband and wife Richard and Isabelle Faure, alongside Hubert Deniau, a watchmaker and jeweler, founded Maison Honoré Paris on Rue des Rosiers in Saint-Ouen. This studio produced monumental, luminous decorative objects and furniture inspired by flora and fauna, often in the tradition of Jacques Duval-Brasseur. Duval-Brasseur would later join them and work alongside them in the workshop, as would Henri Fernandez, whose work shares similarities. The constant, the common thread running through the objects created in the Honoré workshops, is the representation of nature through the combination of amethyst geodes, agate, rock crystal, or white coral with gilded brass plates.

The proximity of the Honoré workshops to the Saint-Ouen flea market allowed them to quickly gain a certain reputation and achieve success that would later extend internationally. This workshop would eventually employ up to 40 people and cease operations in 1992.