A former Melburnian shares her favourite niche businesses, from designer knitwear to furniture, in the city she now calls home.
Beyond its famed sites, romantic bridges and museums filled with masterpieces, Paris hums with the creative projects and passions of inspired and inspiring owner-makers and artisans.
Loved locally and admired internationally, their niche maisons are representative of a city with a knack for synthesising the past, the present and the future with radical chic – all while maintaining the charm and authenticity of independent, owner-run businesses. Reason enough to visit Paris, here are five on my long list of favourites.Moustache’s flagship boutique in the Canal Saint-Martin quarter, with a Bold stool in the foreground, at right.
Furniture and interiors company Moustache launched in 2009 with the chunky and colourful “Bold” chair, designed by Lausanne studio Big Game. Taking its inspiration from “the idea of a continuous line that draws a three-dimensional object”, the chair is fashioned from two interlaced steel tubes wrapped in foam.
Since launching Moustache, they have collaborated with an ever-expanding family of mainly European designers: Inga Sempé, who came up with another of their early pieces, the Vapeur hanging paper lamp; artist-designer François Azambourg; experimental Dutch designer Bertjan Pot; and French design stars Ionna Vautrin and Constance Guisset.
Moustache opened its flagship boutique in 2019 in the arty Canal Saint-Martin quarter, far from Paris’ established design and furniture hoods. Created by Paris-based studio En Bande Organisée and architect Julien Dufresne, the boutique is as much a statement as the catalogue. A contemporary cave-like space, it presents the Moustache collection in alcoves, on plinths or against the chalk-white walls, throwing their vivid contemporary forms into sharp relief.
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