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  • Unique, authenticated pieces
  • Delivery across France and Europe
  • We buy and take on consignment
  • USM Haller assembly and restoration

LAPIERRE MARKET · Architects, hospitality, production

Trade & Hospitality

We source authenticated designer pieces to brief for interior architecture, hospitality, restaurants and productions, and deliver them across France, Europe, the UK and the US.

We work from a workshop-warehouse in north Paris. Our pieces come from first owners, estates and identified European dealers, and each one is authenticated, restored and photographed before it enters the catalogue.

We are neither a reissue shop nor a consumer marketplace: we look for pieces one by one and deliver them with the documents a client file calls for.

Who we work with

  • For hotels and restaurants, we furnish lounges, lobbies, dining rooms and pilot bedrooms with coherent sets, a provenance file usable in your communications and a quote that accounts for public-venue rules.
  • With interior architects, on residential projects or head offices, we keep a private catalogue up to date for the whole project and deliver in stages.
  • A USM Haller configuration (reception desk, sideboard, shelving, cloakroom) is studied on the floor plan, quoted per module and delivered assembled.
  • For photo and film productions, we rent period pieces short-term, delivered the day before and collected the day after, with production insurance. Terms are on the rental page.

Why the original

An original piece sets a venue apart. A first-edition Pierre Paulin, a Pierre Jeanneret PJ-SI-01-A that came back from Chandigarh or a Joe Colombo light has no faithful reissue, and they are too rare to be specified twice on the same street.

Each one also comes with a provenance to tell (the year, the edition, sometimes the first owner), which you can use on the floor, in the press kit or on the opening page.

It holds its value: designer furniture has held up well on the secondary market for about fifteen years and, booked as an asset, it does not depreciate like new. On request, we provide a record of known prices at the date of purchase.

And then there is patina. Fifty-year-old leather, aged solid wood or lightly pitted chrome cannot be reproduced in a factory.

Our services

  • We source to brief: typologies, eras, designers, materials, palette, budget per line and timing. Within seven to fourteen days, you receive an access-protected private catalogue drawn from our stock and from our European partners.
  • In Paris and Île-de-France, we come to your practice or site with pieces, samples and provenance files. Elsewhere, we see you at the workshop by appointment.
  • We design custom USM Haller configurations suited to public-venue rules and to the lifespan of a hospitality or workplace project.
  • We rent pieces for image productions, fashion shows, pop-ups and brand events. See USM Haller rental for Paris shoots.
  • Our partner workshops in Paris and Île-de-France handle restoration: leather or fabric upholstery to your material brief, full re-covering, wooden and metal frames, upkeep of pieces already in service.
  • We deliver to France, Europe, the UK and the US: insurance at declared value, wooden crates for sensitive pieces, two-person handling, on-site assembly. Exports are covered in our guide on shipping vintage furniture abroad post-Brexit.
  • For billing, we provide multi-line quotes, accept thirty or sixty day terms against an approved file, and supply transfer-of-title attestations, signed certificates and a provenance photo file. Details are on the services and shipping pages.

How a project runs

  1. It starts with a scoping meeting, by video or in person, lasting forty-five to ninety minutes. We then write the brief, and you sign it off.
  2. Within seven to fourteen days, we present a moodboard and five to ten pieces per line, with photographs, dimensions, condition, provenance and price range. We revise the selection until you approve it.
  3. The quote includes transport, insurance, assembly and restoration, and the schedule follows your construction calendar.
  4. At the final check, we go over markings, manufacturer labels, serial numbers and the consistency of materials and era. The restorations agreed in the quote are done by then.
  5. We deliver and assemble on the agreed date and take the packaging away. You receive a digital file: invoices, certificates, photographs, transfer-of-title attestations.

Start a project

Send us a short brief through the contact page: name, company, email, phone, project type, indicative budget, timing and a few lines of description.

We get back to you within forty-eight working hours to set up a first scoping meeting.

Frequently asked

Frequently asked.

  • What payment terms do you offer professionals?

    The same as for all our customers: payment in full before delivery, by bank transfer or online on the site. The invoice is made out to your company and the terms are set out in the quote.

  • Can you provide certificates of authenticity for our client?

    Yes. Each piece has its own signed certificate (designer, edition, estimated date, markings, provenance). For major pieces, we also include bibliographic references and a photo file of the markings.

  • What sourcing lead times should we plan for?

    Allow seven to fourteen days for a first catalogue and one to three months for a full project. Very targeted searches (Perriand, Jeanneret, Royère) take longer.

  • Do you handle exports and intra-EU VAT?

    Yes. We invoice intra-EU with a valid VAT number and handle EORI, tariff codes and, outside the EU, post-Brexit formalities. Transport is insured at the value declared on the invoice. Pieces over one hundred years old fall under a specific tax regime, handled case by case.

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