ORBISCRAFT & ATELIERS IN PARIS 15 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Craft & Ateliers in Paris
15 stores · curated ORBIS register
Cinabre makes menswear accessories in France, with its Loir-et-Cher workshops producing bow ties and scarves for the Paris house. Gemmyo offers appointments to compare precious metals and stones, then produces jewellery to order in French workshops. Macon & Lesquoy designs embroidered brooches and badges in Paris, working with needleworkers in Pakistan and embroidery workshops in Portugal.
French eco-responsible fashion label founded 2017, workshop-boutique based near Bordeaux; garments made to order and manufactured in French ateliers using linen and recycled fibers.
Best for Made-to-order, responsibly made French fashion with clean silhouettes
Aatise is a French fashion label describing itself as a pioneer of "Slow Fashion," founded in 2017 with an emphasis on responsible, sustainable production over standard retail volume. Its own materials describe an eco-conscious approach built on eco-design, zero waste, limited series and made-to-order manufacturing, produced domestically in France. The company operates a combined workshop-boutique - coworking space, garment production and showroom together - currently based in Villenave d'Ornon, just outside Bordeaux, having relocated there from a central Bordeaux address in January 2023. Its clothing is manufactured across several French workshops, including locations in Pau, Bordeaux, Castres and the Paris region, with dresses and shirts made in Bordeaux specifically. Aatise favors natural and recycled materials - linen (France being a major producer of the fiber), Ecovero viscose and Tencel among them - and offers a customization service letting customers personalize garments. The brand sells both men's and women's ready-to-wear as well as made-to-order pieces through its own e-shop.
Paris decor house founded 2012 by heritage restorers Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin and Julie Stordiau, reviving hand block-printed 18th-century 'papier dominote'. Flagship boutique at 2 Rue Bonaparte in Saint-Germain-des-Pres; roughly 50 stockists across 13 countries.
Best for Domino papers, wallpapers, and hand-crafted decorative objects
Antoinette Poisson was founded in Paris in 2012 by three heritage conservators - Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin and Julie Stordiau - who set out to revive dominoterie, an 18th-century technique for producing decorative 'domino' papers by engraving a design into a printing block, then applying color by hand or stencil. The papers were historically used to line books, boxes, and small rooms or alcoves; Antoinette Poisson's contemporary work extends the same period patterns into wallpaper, fabric by the meter, stationery, lampshades, boxes, cushions, candles and table linens, all manufactured in France. The brand takes its name from Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the Marquise de Pompadour. Historically based in Paris, the house recently opened a new flagship at 2 Rue Bonaparte in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres quarter, and now distributes through roughly 50 points of sale across 13 countries.
Paris menswear accessories house founded in 2011 by Alexandre Chapellier. Bow ties, ties, and scarves made in France (workshops in Fontaine-Raoul, Loir-et-Cher); formerly stocked at Colette, Neiman Marcus, and Isetan Shinjuku.
Best for French-made ties, scarves, and bow ties with character
Cinabre Paris is a men's accessories brand founded in 2011 by Alexandre Chapellier, who opened the first boutique that year in Paris's 10th arrondissement, at 20 rue d'Hauteville. The house began with 'couture' bow ties made from luxury-house fabric offcuts before expanding into boutonnieres, ties, scarves, and leather goods; production is handled in-house at ateliers in Fontaine-Raoul, in the Loir-et-Cher department. Early commercial success came largely from foreign buyers, particularly American clients, and the brand was carried by Paris concept store Colette, the Neiman Marcus chain in the US, Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo, and Le Bon Marche in Paris. GQ magazine nicknamed Chapellier the 'neck dresser of Paris.'
Boutique appointments run for about 45 minutes and let clients compare eighteen-carat gold, platinum and stones with an adviser. Pieces are then produced to order in the house’s French jewellery workshops.
Best for Colorful engagement rings and personalized fine jewelry.
Paris hand-embroidered brooch and badge house founded in 2009 by designers Marie Macon and Anne-Laure Lesquoy, whose military-insignia-inspired pieces are produced by needleworkers in Pakistan and embroidery workshops in Portugal. First boutique opened near Canal Saint-Martin in 2017.
Best for Embroidered brooches and patches with playful French wit.
Macon & Lesquoy was founded in 2009 by Marie Macon and Anne-Laure Lesquoy, who met studying at Paris's Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle. Their hand-embroidered brooches and badges draw their visual language from military and royal decorations - precise, dense stitching rendered as wearable pins rather than insignia. Marie designs the motifs and Anne-Laure develops them into finished pieces, working with needleworkers in Pakistan and mechanical embroidery workshops in Portugal to produce the collections. The pair have also built collections around places they've traveled together, including Russia, Japan, Rwanda and India. After several years as a wholesale and online-only label, Macon & Lesquoy opened its first physical boutique in 2017, in the Canal Saint-Martin neighborhood of Paris - an area the brand's own material describes as having kept its village character despite gentrification.
French handmade fashion label for limited-run blouses, dresses, skirts, and romantic responsible pieces.
Best for Limited-run handmade blouses, dresses, and skirts made responsibly in France.
Maison Cléo is a Paris-born womenswear label founded in 2017 by Marie Dewet, who left a role at resale platform Vestiaire Collective to build a brand around local, small-batch production rather than seasonal mass output. The house makes blouses, dresses, skirts and other pieces described by the brand itself as romantic and responsibly produced, positioning itself against the fast-fashion cycle through limited runs made in France. Maison Cléo sells primarily direct through its own website and, per the brand's own reporting, through the Circular Clothing Paris marketplace, and has shown as part of the Paris Fashion Week calendar. In September 2024 the brand publicly teased -- via its own channels and covered independently by French trade press -- the opening of a first atelier-boutique, describing the presentation of its collections "window side" and promising an opening "very soon"; as of the most recent check, no address or firm opening date had been announced, and the brand continues to operate as an online-only house. The atelier-boutique concept, uniting workshop and storefront in one space, would mark Maison Cléo's first step from pure e-commerce into a physical presence, extending its local-production ethos into a space customers can visit rather than only browse online.
Paris tie house founded by Francois-Regis Laporte, trained in pattern cutting at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. Ties, bow ties, ascots and pocket squares are hand-cut and sewn from Lyon silk in its own Paris workshop, sold from its boutique at 42 rue de Verneuil.
Best for Ties, scarves, and collars — polished French finishing accessories.
Maison F was founded by Francois-Regis Laporte, who trained in pattern cutting at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and worked earlier as an assistant at Jacques Fath and press manager at Bruuns Bazaar. Laporte describes Maison F as the only remaining dedicated tie-maker operating in Paris. The house's ties, bow ties and accessories are cut and hand-sewn from silk sourced in Lyon, with roughly 20 minutes of handwork per tie; the workshop employs around fifty seamstresses. Maison F's Paris boutique is located at 42 rue de Verneuil, in the Carre Rive Gauche district.
Maison Matisse is a Paris home-design house founded in 2019 by the family of painter Henri Matisse, with his great-grandson Jean-Matthieu Matisse among its founders, built to translate the artist's paintings into functional objects rather than reproduce them as prints.
Best for Home objects inspired by Henri Matisse's art, via contemporary craft collaborations.
Maison Matisse is a Paris home-design house founded in 2019 by the family of painter Henri Matisse, with his great-grandson Jean-Matthieu Matisse among its founders, built to translate the artist's paintings into functional objects rather than reproduce them as prints. Its first two collections, "La Musique" and "Intérieur aux aubergines," were each developed from a specific Matisse canvas, reworking their color palettes and motifs into furniture, tableware, textiles and décor through collaborations with contemporary craftspeople. In March 2022 the house opened its first permanent boutique at 38 rue du Bac, in Paris's 7th arrondissement on the Left Bank, near the Rue du Bac metro station -- a space designed like a furnished apartment rather than a conventional shop, so pieces could be seen in a lived-in setting. The founders have described customer response to the boutique as strongly positive in the period after opening. The house has since added a second Paris address, an events space at 8 Rue des Francs Bourgeois in the Marais, used for exhibitions and presentations tied to Paris Design Week and Maison&Objet. Maison Matisse offers click-and-collect from its rue du Bac boutique alongside its e-commerce operation, positioning the brand as both a design label and a physical destination for admirers of Matisse's visual language.
Italian lighting house founded 1950 in Lucca, Tuscany by designer Elio Martinelli. Produces Gae Aulenti's 1965 Pipistrello lamp, originally made for Olivetti's Paris showroom; still manufactured in Lucca under his daughter Emiliana.
Best for The 1965 bat-wing Pipistrello lamp, an icon of Italian lighting modernism.
Martinelli Luce was founded in 1950 in Lucca, Tuscany, when designer Elio Martinelli turned a cellar in the city's old centre into what he called his 'Laboratory.' The company built its early identity on injection-moulded plastic and methacrylate lighting, designed primarily by Martinelli and by architect Gae Aulenti. Its defining piece is the Pipistrello, designed by Aulenti in 1965 for the Olivetti showroom in Paris and produced by Martinelli Luce ever since; the lamp's name comes from its shade, four curved opaline methacrylate panels shaped to evoke outstretched wings. Martinelli Luce remains an independent, family-run company, today led by Emiliana Martinelli, Elio's daughter, with production still concentrated in Lucca.
Made in Montrouge, France since 1885, Papier d'Arménie's paper strips are soaked in alcohol-dissolved benzoin resin and burned rather than lit, a format created after founder Auguste Ponsot saw Armenians burn benzoin to freshen their homes.
Best for Original benzoin-soaked incense papers, made in the same Montrouge workshop since 1885
Papier d'Arménie has burned the same way since 1885: a strip of paper soaked in benzoin resin dissolved in alcohol, torn off, folded into a fan, and lit to smoulder rather than flame. The company traces its start to the chemist Auguste Ponsot, who saw Armenians burning benzoin to freshen their homes and, working with the pharmacist Henri Rivier, adapted the practice into a paper carnet a French household could use without a censer or coal. Production has stayed in Montrouge, just outside Paris, for more than a century, and the business has stayed in family hands — Mireille Schvartz, great-granddaughter of a co-founder, has run it since 1991. The line has grown past the original Tradition formula to include Rose and an Arménie blend, but the format hasn't changed: booklets of perforated paper strips, no burner or reed required. By 2023 the workshop was turning out some 3.5 million booklets a year, with about 15 percent exported, still recognizable as the same product generations of French households have kept in a kitchen drawer for the smell alone. It reads less as a fragrance house than a single fixed ritual, unchanged since a nineteenth-century encounter with an Armenian household custom.
Paris shaving-brush maker founded in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, who both came from brush- and fan-making families and later supplied Napoleon; still family-run, it combines horn, ivory and exotic-wood handles with badger and synthetic bristle work.
Best for Badger-hair shaving brushes and the barbière ritual since 1808
Plisson was founded in Paris in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, a couple who both came from established families in the brush-making and fan-making trades — crafts built on the same underlying skills of fitting fine bristles or materials into a shaped handle. Their manufacture combined two distinct artisan disciplines: tabletterie, the shaping and finishing of noble materials such as horn, ivory and exotic woods into small objects, and brosserie, the selection and precise placement of bristle fibers into a functional brush head. That combination positioned Plisson well when the modern shaving brush began to take off as a household grooming tool in the nineteenth century, and the house built a reputation that reached Napoleon's court — the Plissons made the emperor a beard brush designed for travel, and the brand adopted an eagle as its emblem for years afterward in reference to that association. Plisson has remained under family ownership through its history, continuing to combine both original disciplines rather than specializing narrowly in one: its range spans razors, shaving brushes in both natural badger-hair and synthetic-fiber versions, shaving cosmetics, hairbrushes, and grooming tools for beards and mustaches. The brand sells both through its own outlets and through counters inside larger retailers, including a presence within the Paris department store Printemps, keeping the more than two-century-old maker within reach of a mainstream retail audience rather than confined to a single flagship address.
Rougier & Plé on boulevard des Filles du Calvaire is a Paris shop for art materials and creative projects. Its departments cover drawing and painting alongside paper and other craft supplies. The Marais store's façade incorporates a work by Daniel Buren, adding an artist's intervention to the practical business of choosing materials.
Best for Drawing, painting and craft supplies in the Marais
Rougier & Plé's boulevard des Filles du Calvaire shop is a practical stop for art materials in the Marais. Drawing and painting supplies form part of a broader selection that includes paper and materials for creative hobbies. The store occupies several levels, giving someone working across different media a reason to look beyond a single shelf of paints or pens.
The façade carries a work by Daniel Buren. That intervention connects the building to contemporary art while the business inside remains focused on the materials used to make things. It is possible to approach the shop with either a specific project in mind or an interest in comparing tools and surfaces before deciding what to try.
The company traces its beginnings to 1854, when its trade included tools and supplies for leatherwork. Its present range is much broader. For a useful visit, decide whether the priority is drawing, painting or another craft, then compare the appropriate materials. Treat the assortment as a retailer's selection from different makers, not as evidence that every product was manufactured in France.
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