Founded in 1988, La Charpenterie puts all its know-how and love for wood to work for you.

Wood, this material so ancient therefore, which has protected, sheltered humanity from its origins.

Even today, this noble material, wood, brightens up our lives with its splendor.

Carpentry, A Traditional Craft

Carpenters are the direct descendants of that distant ancestor who first imagined all the creations that men could make from trees: roofs, carts, bridges and boats. Over the centuries the carpenter's craft assimilated every aspect of working with wood, a material whose universal nature would subsequently give rise to numerous specialist fields. You only need to read the works of Julius Caesar to see the extent to which military engineering of over two thousand years ago relied on carpenters' skills and ingenuity.

We know that the classical forms of Greek temples were designed by woodworkers, and that the Roman forms that arose from these were to spread throughout the Roman Empire, up until the time when the blossoming of the Gothic style spread its wonders over all of Europe.

Today, of all those who work with wood for a living, the carpenter is the one who has maintained the closest contact with this material, placing value on the original form and individual properties of the wood they use.