YOU LOOK AROUND YOUR HOME AND know it’s time for a change- ditch your dorm room furniture, part ways with grandma’s dining room, strip the formica from your now grown kids’ bedrooms. Like many of us in today’s DIY era, you decide to take on the project yourself. After all, how hard could it be to buy some furniture for your own house? Who could possibly understand you and your family’s design and spatial needs more […]

The Daum family were originally lawyers, not glassmakers! The glass factory, which was located in Nancy, France, was actually a part payment for a debt that the family received in 1878. It was the youngest son, Antonin, who more than a decade later joined the business as a trained engineer, that made the “Verrerie de Nancy” the success story we know today. The  Daum factory exhibited at the Paris exhibition of 1889 where the brothers […]

These animals are casually found on the roofs of many original houses in Deauville, the heart of Normandy in the north of France. These wonderful whimsical creatures not only survived the Great War, but are being recreated today, although NOT for the same purpose they served in the 16th and 17th century. Back then, they were created to assure the water tightness of typical French terracotta roofing tiles. Today they have become a decorative architectural feature for […]

Have you visited the Cimintiere de Montparnasse lately? Treasures and sculptures by the unexpected, Brancusi and Niki de Saint Phalle b.1930-d.2001. Beautiful artist, sculptor and film producer, she belonged to the artistic group of Christo and Gerard Descamps and was married to Jean Tinguely, an artist as well. They were known as the “Bonnie and Clyde de L’art”.  While she lived in the US, she was also a model for Vogue, Life and Elle.  She […]

Steel is everywhere! Recyclers have been selling it as scrap, in all sorts of ways since WWII. What happens to it once it is bought? Besides construction and automotive industries, designers have used the material incessantly for furniture as well as art. In the 1970’s Francois Monnet designed tables and chairs for the Kappa factory in France. His pieces are sleek, elegant and timeless and still available today. FrenchDibs was able to acquire an original […]