Brosa Designer Furniture Sale Espen® 2 x Dining Chair View All 40 Colours Espen® Scoop Back Dining Chair View All 39 Colours Grace 2x Dining Chair View All 16 Colours Zoe Scoop Back Dining Chair View All 20 Colours Zoe 2 x Dining Chair Mokuzai [木] 2 x Dining Chair View All 11 Colours View All 8 Colours Slip Covers for Grace 2 x Dining Chair Mia 2 x Dining Chair Sofia 2 x Dining Chair View All 6 Colours Jesper 2x Dining Chair View All 10 Colours View All 8 ColoursThe ShortVieille Branche - Things or Old is a small Brisbane boutique who import French Antiques and Vintage from the cold French seaside to balmy Brisbane Australia. On there buying trips to France they select a diverse, eccentric range of French Antiques & Vintage dating from 1700’s through to the Mid/Late 1900’s collected from the Normandy region of France. Expect to see unique one-off pieces with character and timeless style to suit modern Australian taste.
Jen & JC are the whole process in collecting these unique items for their Brisbane customers. They source, pack, catalogue, import, unpack, decorate and run the space to ensure each item arrives in good condition.These pieces are the ‘real thing’, hand selected from French country fairs and brocantes around Normandy. Sourcing is an incredibly important aspect of the whole process, and the pair have skill in selecting for an Australian aesthetic, while maintaining that French style & eccentricity.We supply to the public and also the design industry. If you are looking for a particular piece of French Furniture or unique object send us an email with a photo/description and we will get in touch with our French contact who has been dealing in antiques for generations and has access to many antique and vintage goods. The longSo this is a little blurb about the people at Vieille Branche - Things of old and how and why they decided to take on this furniture venture! Jennifer met JC one evening in Spring 2011.
Shortly afterwards, JC left Brisbane to go fruit picking in Childers but they kept in touch and a few months later (to Jennifer's delight) he arrived back on her doorstep in West End. Jennifer, a graphic designer and JC, a photographer happily worked their way through 2012 doing freelance work and collecting old furniture to re-furbish. In September 2012 they decided to head over to France to meet JC's family. Straight off the plane and after a drive to Normandy, Jennifer found herself slap-bang in the middle of a French farm house, eating rabbit stew and trying to communicate with her very minimal French with JC's parents. Lucky she had JC to do the translating! A few days into the holiday they began looking around at the furniture shops in the area. They had discussed the idea to bring furniture back while they were in Australia and were very enthusiastic about what they could find. They picked up a few bits and pieces and phoned home (Australian home) to tell them of their purchases.
All in Aus said, "go for it" and they began buying. They had a little luck along the way. JC's oyster farmer friend happened to have a spare warehouse, JC's mother had a few spare cars from her Taxi/Ambulance business and they found a furniture buying partner in France to source products while they were back in Australia. They threw themselves in the deep end and extended their 6 week holiday to 5 months. Just before Christmas 2012, the container was loaded up in 3hrs (see the video below) and sent on it's way back to Australia. Arriving in February 2013, they decided to do a few markets and set up an online shop. Again, a little luck came their way and they were able to rent out the bottom studio at 22 Ross St, Newstead from close family friends. After the trial shop at 22 Ross St, they headed back to France for another collection and over Christmas 2014 moved into a larger warehouse at 10 Fox St, Albion.Newly painted and decorated with French antiques & vintage, the new space has shared offices and is available for rent for events and likewise.
Their grand plan is to create a unique space in Brisbane and welcome people through the doors to look and enjoy the space as much as they do. But it's nicer to meet them and chat properly, so come down to 10 Fox St, you'll find them there fromTuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5.30pmVitraBelleville ChairInformationProducts of the familyDesigner Belleville ChairRonan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2015Belleville is the name of the vibrant Paris neighbourhood where the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have their studio. Visual references for the Belleville Chair can be found in the classic French bistro furnishings and lively atmosphere of this Parisian quarter. The chair's familiar shape - even in a contemporary context - might at first be taken for granted, yet it also evokes a sense of mystery and bemusement, since the materiality, construction and fabrication of the chair only become apparent at second glance.The Belleville Chair is a technically sophisticated plastic chair consisting of two components - a structural frame and a seat shell.
Tracing the calligraphic lines of the legs and back, the slender black frame supports a thin shell that tapers from the wide seat surface into a narrow backrest. This type of construction opens up new perspectives for the materiality of the plastic chair, since the surface of the seat shell is the defining characteristic of the Belleville Chair's identity: available in coloured polypropylene, moulded plywood veneer or with a cover in leather or fabric, the perception of the Belleville Chair is transformed from a plastic chair to a wooden chair to an upholstered chair - and even to an armchair with forward slanting armrests.Paired with the Belleville Tables, the Belleville Chair and Armchair form a unified yet diverse group - a hybrid family of furnishings whose forms and materials are harmoniously coordinated. Thus the chairs and tables - in small or large numbers - can be attractively combined in bustling bistro settings as well as sleekly modern galleries or diversely styled home environments.