Christiane Lemieux

Christiane Lemieux Founder and Creative Director Lemieux Et Cie, Author of The Finer Things, Undecorate and Frictionles

Pierre Jeanneret arrived in Chandigarh in 1951 and stayed nearly fifteen years. LeCorbusier drew the city. Jeanneret sta...
08/03/2026

Pierre Jeanneret arrived in Chandigarh in 1951 and stayed nearly fifteen years. Le
Corbusier drew the city. Jeanneret stayed to furnish it.

Burma teak, cut and joined by hand for a government office in a country four years into independence. They were meant to be identical. The craftsperson's hand refused. No two are the same, and the stencil is still on the door.

Above it, Les Femmes. Modigliani is in them. Gauguin is in them. So is every century that has looked at the female form and tried to hold it still. Signed, numbered, and finite, on German etching paper with a deckled edge.

In the foreground, the curve of a Rozette, made by hand in North Carolina this year.
Chandigarh. My studio. Carolina. Nothing here matches. Everything here is in key.

A monogram is a small mark with a long history.From ancient coins and royal seals to the hand-embroidered linens of a fa...
08/02/2026

A monogram is a small mark with a long history.

From ancient coins and royal seals to the hand-embroidered linens of a family trousseau, intertwined initials have always carried something deeply personal: identity, intimacy, and belonging.

Soon, we will introduce our own collection of custom monograms designed to feel at once traditional and entirely modern. Embroidered onto a pillow, coverlet, or favorite piece of linen, each becomes a quiet signature: unmistakably yours and made to endure.

Because the smallest detail can elevate the everyday into something exceptional and transform a beautiful object into a personal heirloom.

I am shooting them now, and they are coming soon. Make every detail yours.

The brain has a preference. In 2013, neuroscientist Oshin Vartanian put people in a scanner and showed them hundreds of ...
07/31/2026

The brain has a preference. In 2013, neuroscientist Oshin Vartanian put people in a scanner and showed them hundreds of rooms. Curved interiors lit up the anterior cingulate cortex, a region tied to emotion and reward. Sharp angles did not. Subjects called the curved rooms beautiful at nearly twice the rate. We knew this when we designed our sofas. A curve is a sentence without an argument. You sit down, and the room stops asking anything of you but feeling safe.

I found the first one in a Chandigarh storeroom, half-buried under things nobody thought to save. Then more, in Kasauli ...
07/29/2026

I found the first one in a Chandigarh storeroom, half-buried under things nobody thought to save. Then more, in Kasauli warehouses, roadside stalls, back rooms where teak and cane sat forgotten under years of dust, waiting for someone to recognize what Pierre Jeanneret actually made.

Years of chasing India for these pieces. Every single one photographed where I found it, then given a second life in the homes I love building.

This is that whole story—from the floor of a warehouse to the center of a room. And my love of important design.

Corvaux draws from the disciplined geometry of interwar France, when cabinetmaking shed ornament but kept its sense of c...
07/27/2026

Corvaux draws from the disciplined geometry of interwar France, when cabinetmaking shed ornament but kept its sense of ceremony. Spherical feet and hand-set brass bring wit to the rigor. History, redrawn for now.

Geometry, before it was modern.In the ateliers of 1930s Paris, the Post-Deco makers had a problem to solve: how do you s...
07/26/2026

Geometry, before it was modern.

In the ateliers of 1930s Paris, the Post-Deco makers had a problem to solve: how do you strip a room down to its structure without making it cold. Their answer was geometry, not as decoration, but as the whole conversation. A drawer front became a study in relief. A cabinet face became an exercise in depth. The wood itself was asked to do more than hold a shape. Wire-brushed oak, worked by hand until the grain reads almost dimensional.

Voltaire is our answer to that same question, decades later.

Every time, it holds the room the same way it must have held a room in 1930, as the quiet fact everything else is arranged around. Storage that stays fully integrated, so the architecture of the line is never interrupted by hardware or afterthought.

Some pieces decorate a space. Voltaire structures it.

The full collection: sideboard, nightstand, console, desk, two-door cabinet, is at lemieuxetcie.com.

Weekend starts at the table.Phones away, peonies a little too generous for a Friday, the whole week finally allowed to s...
07/24/2026

Weekend starts at the table.

Phones away, peonies a little too generous for a Friday, the whole week finally allowed to slow down. No occasion required, just the two days ahead and a reason to set a beautiful table anyway.

Burl, in every room that matters.No two panels the same: a knot, a swirl, a pattern that no machine could draft. It's wo...
07/22/2026

Burl, in every room that matters.

No two panels the same: a knot, a swirl, a pattern that no machine could draft. It's wood the way nature actually made it, not the way we usually clean it up.

We keep coming back to burl because it refuses to be background. Pair it hard or soft. Bouclé and burl. Velvet and burl. Brass and burl. The wood holds its own against all of it.

The ottoman began as a piece of empire. In Ottoman Turkey, cushioned benches lined the walls of a room. Europe borrowed ...
07/20/2026

The ottoman began as a piece of empire. In Ottoman Turkey, cushioned benches lined the walls of a room. Europe borrowed the form in the late eighteenth century, shrank it, upholstered it, and moved it to the center of the salon.

That placement mattered. Furniture at the center of a room is furniture people gather around.

The Benoit Coffee Table Ottoman holds that center. A low circular form, upholstered, wrapped in a crescent of figured burl. In this Montauk house it decided how the room would be used. A place to set a drink. A place for the books you are actually reading. A place to stretch out when the afternoon asks for it.

Benoit is now fully customizable in our fabrics or any COM.

"Avenir" means "future" in French. The collection begins with a material centuries old. Mappa burl. Prized in European c...
07/19/2026

"Avenir" means "future" in French. The collection begins with a material centuries old.

Mappa burl. Prized in European cabinetry, cut into the geometry of the 1930s, everywhere again in the 1970s. The grain needs no help. We gave it architecture instead: monumental tables. sculptural cylinders, cabinetry reduced to its proportions.

Arbus is here. Leleu. Springer. Baughman. Not reproduced. Studied.

Nothing new is made from nothing. You see the past clearly and take the best of it forward.

Address

161 Grand Street
New York, NY
10013

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Christiane Lemieux posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Christiane Lemieux:

Shortcuts

Share

Category