ORBISKITCHENWARE & COOKWARE IN PARIS 10 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Kitchenware & Cookware in Paris
10 stores · curated ORBIS register
Au Bain Marie mixes faience and porcelain with antique silverware, placing contemporary decorative pieces alongside older tableware in its Paris shop. Guy Degrenne contributes stainless-steel flatware from Vire, with the French house's table settings stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. La Bovida serves professional kitchens with copper cookware and cutlery, continuing its Paris outfitting business established in 1921.
Paris tableware shop founded in 1977 by designer Aude Clement at 59 Boulevard Raspail, mixing hand-painted faience and porcelain, crystal, and antique silverware with contemporary decorative pieces.
Best for Tableware glassware and decorative objects with an old-world French hospitality mood
Au Bain Marie was founded in Paris in 1977 by designer and stylist Aude Clement, and has operated for nearly 50 years blending antiques with contemporary design in the tableware space. Its main showroom is at 59 Boulevard Raspail in the 6th arrondissement, with a second gallery location at 56 rue de l'Universite in the 7th. The shop's range includes hand-painted faience and porcelain dinnerware, crystal and glassware, decorative cutlery, silverware, table linens, and genuine antiquities alongside newly made pieces. Au Bain Marie exhibits at the Maison and Objet trade fair.
The 1820 copper cathedral of Les Halles — Julia Child’s supplier, every chef’s pilgrimage. In 1912 White Star Line ordered utensils including a bain-marie later recovered from the Titanic wreck and shown at Cité de la Mer, Cherbourg, in 2015.
Best for Copper cookware from the 1820 Les Halles shop that supplied Julia Child
Guy Degrenne makes stainless-steel flatware in Vire, Normandy, and porcelain dinnerware at its Limoges manufacture. Founded in 1948, the French house supplies tableware for domestic use as well as professional hospitality. Its current Paris shop directory should be used for a visit, since older boutique addresses may no longer match the published list.
Best for French stainless-steel flatware and Limoges porcelain dinnerware
Guy Degrenne is a French tableware house founded in 1948, with stainless-steel flatware and porcelain among its products. Its manufacturing story connects two places: Vire in Normandy for flatware, and Limoges for porcelain. These are production locations, distinct from the Paris boutiques where customers can compare pieces for their own tables.
At Vire, stainless steel is worked into cutlery designed for use by home customers as well as professional chefs. The Limoges manufacture produces dinnerware, with collections exploring different forms and surface finishes. A fork and a porcelain plate therefore involve different materials and manufacturing processes, even when chosen from the same house.
For a purchase, start with the pieces that need replacing or the number of settings you want to assemble. Compare the cutlery's weight and shape alongside the plates you expect to use with it. The official store directory identifies current Paris boutiques, so use that listing when planning a visit rather than an older address.
Paris professional kitchen outfitter since 1921 — copper cookware, cutlery, and working-chef essentials.
Best for Professional copper cookware and knives for chefs since 1921, from Les Halles
La Bovida was founded in 1921 as a small meat company and later expanded into professional kitchen equipment supply. In 1925, it merged with the Godefroy Spice Shop, forming an excellent firm specializing in quality raw materials and kitchen utensils for professional chefs. The merger gave La Bovida its enduring symbol: the Caravelle ship. Located on Rue Montmartre near the Étienne Marcel metro station, not far from the former Les Halles neighborhood, La Bovida has served butchers, charcuterie shops, and professional kitchens for over a century. Only recently did the company open its doors to the general public, allowing home cooks to browse the shop's curated selection. Inventory includes top-quality ergonomic zesters, icing bags, pepper mills, coffee sets, corkscrews, whipped cream siphons, tableware, sauté pans, and much more at competitive prices. The store remains a destination for working chefs seeking professional-grade equipment and Paris's culinary tradition of quality materials and craftsmanship.
French tableware and design brand founded in 2008, known for its Breton-style bowls handcrafted at a pottery near Pornic, Brittany; exhibits annually at the Maison & Objet trade fair.
Best for Playful French tableware, gifts, and colorful design objects for the home
Pied de Poule has been designing French tableware and decorative objects since 2008, built around reinterpreting everyday household items with color and humor rather than a conventional home-goods catalogue. One of its recurring lines is a set of Breton-style bowls, handcrafted at a pottery near Pornic on France's Atlantic coast in Brittany, made-in-France pieces the brand foregrounds over imported alternatives. The company is based at 59 rue de l'Ourcq in the 19th arrondissement, with a separate retail shop at 17 rue Lambert near Lamarck-Caulaincourt in the 18th arrondissement. It exhibits regularly at the Maison & Objet trade fair, the Paris design and home-goods showcase, positioning its collections toward buyers and retailers as well as individual shoppers. The brand's focus on domestically produced, design-forward tableware and small objects places it within a broader wave of French manufacturers marketing 'Made in France' provenance as a specific selling point rather than a general claim.
Founded in Paris in 1993 by goldsmith-trained designer Francis Gelb, Sabre built its signature Bistrot line around handcrafted, mass-dyed acrylic-resin handles in bright colors. The brand's stated aim from the start: cheerful, everyday flatware over "pompous luxury and stuffy classics."
Best for Colorful acrylic-handled French flatware for everyday tables.
French non-stick cookware since 1956 — Marc Gregoire's revolutionary PTFE-bonded aluminum from Rumilly factory.
Best for The 1956 non-stick pan and Ingenio stacking cookware system
Tefal is a French cookware brand that pioneered the non-stick cookware category. The brand was founded by French engineer Marc Gregoire, who watched his wife struggling with food sticking in a traditional pan and had the revolutionary idea to bond PTFE (Teflon) to aluminum. In 1956, Gregoire set up the T-fal company in Sarcelles, France, producing his innovative non-stick frying pans. The success was immediate, with millions of French kitchens acquiring Tefal products. In 1961, Tefal began exporting to the United States and was eagerly adopted by Jackie Kennedy, then First Lady. The same year, Tefal created its production site in Rumilly, 20 kilometers west of Annecy, establishing the facility that remains central to the brand's manufacturing. The company has been owned by Groupe SEB (a global manufacturer of cookware) since 1968. Tefal is known for creating the non-stick cookware category and for offering frying equipment with minimal requirement of fat or oils. In the United States, Tefal is marketed as T-fal. The brand's Ingenio stacking system revolutionized cookware efficiency and modularity.
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