The échoppe has its own rules. A narrow frontage in blond stone, rooms that follow one another, often a hallway, and at the back a town garden longer than it is wide. A lot of living happens in very few metres: each piece has to find its place without closing off the way through, and the garden counts as one more room.
Stone and wood answer each other. An exposed stone wall is already décor in itself. Teak warms it without competing with it: reclaimed teak, with its dark patina and its knots, holds its own against the stone; light teak lifts a low or dimly lit room. Avoid piling up materials: the stone, one wood and one fibre are enough.
Indoors: shallow pieces
In an échoppe, it is the depth of the furniture that decides everything.
- The hallway or entrance: a slim console rather than a cabinet with doors. Lawas, in reclaimed teak with an antique look, is shallow enough to slip into a hallway, with a lamp and a few objects.
- The living room: a single tall piece, against the stone wall. Sarang, a reclaimed teak bookcase with staggered shelves, keeps four solid doors at the bottom for everyday things.
- The dining corner: a round table on a central base, which is easier to walk around than a rectangle in a room people pass through.
In the garden: think lengthwise
An échoppe garden is often a few metres wide and around ten long. Rather than lining everything up along one wall, divide it into two moments.
- Near the house, meals. A 100 cm round table, such as Orenda100, in solid teak, seats four and needs a square of about 2.70 m once the chairs can pull back (see our article on round tables).
- At the far end, the evening corner. Two lounge chairs and a small side table, where the sun lingers longest. Kyoto, a round teak side table, or Kenza, a C-shaped sofa-side table, take up barely the space of a flowerpot.
- In between, the way through. Keep 80 to 90 cm clear to walk past without brushing the chair backs.
Chairs that put away. In a small garden, spare chairs get in the way. Elsa and Maria, in light teak, are stackable: bring them out when the table grows, stack them against the wall afterwards. Both go indoors as well as out, and can move from the garden to the dining room on a rainy evening.
Delivery in Bordeaux
We deliver to Bordeaux and its metropolitan area by appointment, with the cost shown on the quote. Large pieces are delivered to the room of your choice: let us know the width of the hallway and the access to the garden, and the delivery is arranged accordingly.
The showroom in La Teste-de-Buch is about 50 minutes from Bordeaux: bring a photo of your garden and the measurements of your rooms, and Dominique will help you choose.