Shanxi furniture: treasures from northern China

Shanxi. One region. A thousand stories. And perhaps the piece that will change your interior.

Sometimes a single piece is enough to transform a maison.

Une grande armoire rouge, aux laques profondes ou aux brilliant polychromythat catches the eye at once. A patinated elm sideboard buffet en orme sideboard that has crossed the centuries with quiet elegance. An offering cabinet cabinet d’offrandes delicate gilding that intrigues as much as it fascinates.

Ces meubles These pieces of furniture are not mere decorative objects. They are true living tableaux vivantsliving pictures, whose colours and reliefs change with the light. Each hour of the day reveals a different nuance, a new emotion. They carry émotion new. They carry within them stories of familles, de mariages, de voyages, de prospérité et de transmissiontransmission. They once furnished the houses of China's great merchants marchands chinois avant d’entreprendre un incroyable voyage jusqu’en Europe.

Bienvenue dans l’univers du Shanxiof Shanxi, one of China's most prestigious provinces China.

For centuries this region was the economic heart of the Empire. Its powerful merchants marchands powerful merchants built palaces, developed the first Chinese banks banques chinoises and commissioned a mobilier furniture of exceptional quality, designed to last for generations. To this day their residences bear witness to a way of living in which every piece meuble every piece was conceived as a symbol of success, réussite, de raffinement et de pérennité.

C’est cette émotion emotion that we wished to gather at Galerie Galerie 55.

Stepping through the doors of our galerie, at the heart of Marché Bironthe Marché Biron, you do not merely discover a collection of mobilier ancienantique furniture. You enter a dialogue between EastOrient et l’Occident, entre le 19th century et les contemporary interiors.

Chaque armoire, chaque ancien grain chest ou coffre de mariage, chaque table d’autel, chaque buffet en orme sideboard has been chosen for its personality, its authenticity authenticity and its ability to converse with today's architecture. Above all, each of these pieces meubles a une histoire à raconter.

For that is the paradox of these pieces: they pieces : elles ont parfois plus de cent cinquante ansfifty years old… and yet they seem to have been created for our contemporary contemporary interiors.

A white wall reveals the full depth of a patinated patinated red lacquerlacquer. A linen sofa underlines the strength of a wedding coffre de mariagechest. A minimalist light fitting sets off the lines of an antique cabinet ancien.

The result is never static.

Il est vivant.

At a time when mobilier furniture is often standardised, mass-produced and then replaced a few years later, choosing a piece from Shanxi Shanxi pieceis to do exactly the opposite. It is to welcome into one's home a piece that meuble that has already crossed several generations and that will, no doubt, accompany those to come.

It is also to acquire a true functional œuvre d’art fonctionnelleart, shaped by hand, assembled without a single nail, made in solid elm orme massif elm and covered with multiple layers of lacquer laque lacquer applied with infinite patience by artisans artisans dont le savoir-faire has been passed down for centuries.

And above all, it is to choose an absolutely choose an absolutely unique piece..

Depuis l’interdiction de l’exportation du mobilier ancien chinois, ces trésors treasures grow rarer every year. The great European European collections collections are gradually dwindling, making each acquisition a true heritage piece patrimoine.

At the Galerie 55Galerie 55, we take the time to tell the storyhistoire de chacune de nos pieces. Leur provenance, leurs symboles, leur restauration their restoration when it was needed, and also the way they can find their place naturally in your interior interior.

Parce qu’un meuble ancien antique piece is not bought with the eyes alone.

Il se découvre.

Il se touche.

Il se ressent.

So, before you continue reading about the secrets of Shanxi mobilier du Shanxifurniture, we invite you to come and meet them.

To open the doors of a century-old armoire centenaire.

To run one’s hand over a patinated lacquer by time.

To feel under your fingers the softness of elm orme of elm polished by generations.

To discover the reassuring weight of a wood bois wood that has crossed the centuries.

Car aucune photographie, however successful, will never replace theémotion, la presence et l’énergie energy that radiate from an authentic authentic piece.

La Galerie 55 vous ouvre ses portes au Marché Biron, aux Puces de Saint-Ouen.

Perhaps you will find there much more than a meuble.

Perhaps you will find the object that will give a new âme new piece to your interior.

Or perhaps, quite simply, thehistoire qui attendait votre maison depuis toujours.