French design
8 curated French design brands, stores and studios for the home — reviewed individually for design quality and material integrity.
French entries lean toward fashion, fragrance and considered domestic objects, with a strong showing from Parisian labels working in a deliberately unshowy register.
8 brands from France — strongest in fashion and home décor
CINABRE Paris Artisan 
Gladys Assistant Platform 
La Machine Brand 
La Redoute Multi-brand Store 
NV Gallery Multi-brand Store 
Octobre Editions Brand 
Officine Générale Brand 
Tikamoon Multi-brand Store About french design
The dominant contemporary French idea is a kind of studied ordinariness — well-cut basics in good cloth, repeated season to season, sold from shops that look like apartments. It is a reaction against the luxury houses rather than an imitation of them, and it produces clothes and objects that are easy to live with and difficult to date.
The craft entries here run older and more specialised: leather, glass, fragrance houses with a real formulation history behind them. France is one of the few places where the distinction between a maker and a licensor is still worth checking carefully.
French brands by category
- Fashion 4
- Home Décor 3
- Furniture 3
- Accessories 2