CATALOGUE BALCAEN 2012
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Since fourty years ago when we became the official provider of the Mobilier National ("National Furnishing Entity") our company has been one of the first in obtaining the Label Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (which is an honorific distinction within the area of Arts & Crafts in France) recently renewed in 2011 thus guaranteeing pieces of excellent design and Sublimation of materials, sculptures, lines, elegance and sophistication in the purest Arts and Crafts tradition: we produce, amongst other things, pieces of furniture intended for important international projects, either from our...

Side tables Stools & benches Console tables dressers & beds

Some chronological details about Balcaen company. When only 14 years-old, Claude Balcaen travels to Paris where he starts training beside the best joiners and cabinet-makers such as Mocquet and Beaumont. Martine Balcaen, Mr Claude Balcaen's wife and herself a gilder, joins the company in order to bring to the production line her experience in gilding necessary to the finishing of the pieces of furniture. Balcaen restores the finest pieces of furniture for the French state as well as for private clients. The Mobilier National (National Furniture entity) decides to put the company in charge...

In a few references Along the years Balcaen has developed a wide international network responding to the expectations of wealthy and prominent clients in Abu Dhabi through important decorative projects like providing the furniture for the princely airport (pictures on the left hand); in the Russian Federation (right hand) or in China for a luxury real-estate and construction group; for the interior arrangement of a Turkish private residence that belonged to an industrialist and so forth, in the USA, throughout the Arab Emirates and in Europe with England and France as the main destinations...

new exhibition space of 165 sqm that enables both professional and private clients to discover our finest models of seats (chairs, chairs, wing chairs, stools, sofas, beds) as well as exceptional pie^^^furniture displayed on two levels.. <^^^r Housed under the arches of the famous Viaduc des Arts, Balcaen company recently inaugurated in 2012 a renovated two-level gallery with a total exhibition surface of 165 sqm. Within a contemporary designed space we provide an exhaus- tive individualized advice service to any prospect, professional or private customer. On the top floor we can even help...

Woodworking – Sculpture – Cabinet-making 3000 sqm dedicated to the transformation of the raw wood into frames. The workshop is located in the Eastern region of the Vosges at the heart of the most extensive mountain ranges whence our wood production comes from. Our ancestral and recognized knowhow makes ours one of the last existing workshops for the creation of high-quality seats and pieces of furniture all over the world. Balcaen company preserves and improves a savoir-faire based on the traditions of the Eighteenth Century techniques. Woodworking, cabinet-making, mouldings and sculptures...

Finishing — Gilding — Stains All the finishing, gilding and application of painting or stains are carried out in Balcaen's own workshop nearby Paris. This is wr tile beauty of tjie seat át piece of furniture, is enhanced. The process of finishing or gilding is thus the way to make the model mor aesthetical but. also for the sake of protecting the wood like a prophylactic treatment. This way we guarantee the absolute inherent quality of our products. Moreover, from the application of a patina one or two shades or the copper or gold leaf gildi process is 'executed according to the ancient...

Filling - Upholstery This is at Balcaen's workshop where the seats and pieces of furniture are filled and upholstered. Our craftsmanship comes from and irse^Eighteenth Century techniques for the repairing or manufacturing of any model, either new or antique. . -r ' Let's see howwe make a traditional stitched horsehair trimming: We firstly start with cinching the jute in plain and then we stick the springs to the straps. We fix the strong canvas, then the "bisonne" and the white lining. We proceed with filling the frontage and with whitening the bowl. We apply a metal bangle at the bottom...

Bergère Cresson Bergère & Bout de Bergère Cresson

Bergère Barbizon PM Ref : 2202 - H : 95 cm - W : 70 cm - D : 65 cm 22 Bergère Barbizon GM Ref : 2220 - H : 105 cm - W : 82 cm - D : 65 cm 23

Bergère Bara Sculptée Bergère Bara Moulurée

Bergère Nogaret Sculptée Ref : 2207 - H : 95 cm - W : 70 cm - D : 55 cm 26 Bergère Nogaret Moulurée Ref : 2208 - H : 91 cm - W : 70 cm - D : 55 cm 27

Bergère Marie Ref : 2294 - H : 94 cm - W : 72 cm - D : 55 cm 28 Bergère Foliot Ref : 2505 - H : 99 cm - W : 87,5 cm - D : 89 cm 29

Bergère Gondole Ref : 2204 - H : 97 cm - W : 68 cm - D : 67 cm 30 Bergère Landon Ref : 2213-37 - H : 97 cm - W : 80 cm - D : 60 + 55 cm 31

Bergère Delphine Ref : 2280 - H : 97 cm - W : 75 cm - D : 56 cm 32 Bergère Eloise Ref : 2285 - H : 106 cm - W : 75 cm - D : 57 cm 33

Bergère Marly Bergère & son bout de pied Marly

Marquise Bara Ref : 2500 - H : 109 cm - W : 96 cm - D : 72 cm 36 Marquise Bara Ref : 2500-39 - H : 109 cm - W : 96 cm - D : 72 + 55 cm 37

Bergère Lalonde Bergère Lalonde & son bout de bergère

Bergère Feuilles d'Acanthes Bergère Feuilles d'Acanthes assise suspendue

Bergère Amelie Bergère Delacroix

Bergère Lelarge Sculptée PM Ref : 2221 - H : 87 cm - W : 67 cm - D : 57 cm 44 Bergère Lelarge Sculptée GM Ref : 2289 - H : 97 cm - W : 75 cm - D : 66 cm 45

Marquise Lelarge Moulurée Ref : 2501 - H : 92 cm - W : 79 cm - D : 62 cm 46 Marquise Lelarge Sculptée Ref : 2502 - H : 96 cm - W : 78 cm - D : 62 cm 47