Buying vintage design furniture in Nancy
We buy vintage design furniture in Nancy, or take it on consignment, just as we do across France. We value it from photographs within 24 to 48 hours, then arrange collection.
What Nancy produced
Nancy is the French city where furniture was most closely bound up with an artistic movement. Founded in 1901 around Émile Gallé, Louis Majorelle and Antonin Daum, the École de Nancy produced architecture, glass, marquetry and furniture of rare coherence. The Villa Majorelle (1901-1902), built by Henri Sauvage with Lucien Weissenburger, and the Musée de l'École de Nancy keep that memory alive.
What we find there
That heritage left the city a culture of authored furniture and top-level restoration workshops. So pieces coming out of Nancy have often been well looked after. At 350 km from Paris, it is also an easy city for us to reach.
What we look for first
- Our scope starts in the fifties. In Nancy we therefore look for modern and contemporary furniture: USM Haller, seating and tables by identifiable makers, lighting.
- With the Rhine close by, as in Strasbourg, we also take the German and Scandinavian furniture found here.
- When an estate mixes modern pieces with Art Nouveau, we handle the modern part.
How it works
Photographs
Send us overall views, the marks, any wear and the dimensions. You can attach the photographs straight to the form at the foot of the page.
Valuation within 24 to 48 h
We value from photographs wherever the piece is, so distance makes no difference to how quickly we reply. The valuation comes with an offer of outright purchase or consignment.
Collection
In Nancy, we arrange collection, and on an outright purchase we pay for it. A specialist carrier or one of our own runs handles it, and you have nothing to pack or dismantle. The 350 km or so from Paris go into our calculation, and we confirm the timing with the offer.
Payment
On an outright purchase, we pay by bank transfer on the day of signature, within 48 working hours at the latest, and never in cash above legal thresholds. On consignment, you remain the owner until the sale, and we take a commission agreed in advance.
We can also come and value in person, usually from five pieces or for a configuration of real value. We work from Paris and Auxerre, and we have no establishment in Nancy.
What we buy
- USM Haller, every year and colour
- Ligne Roset, including the Togo collection
- Cassina, original editions and documented reissues
- Knoll, American and European editions
- Castiglioni, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Vico Magistretti
- Italian mid-century from the fifties to the seventies, Scandinavian and Nordic modular systems
We leave aside mass reissues made after 2000, copies and pieces that cannot be identified, pieces too damaged to restore, and furniture with no design interest.
The detailed scope, brand by brandPrivate owner or professional
Private owner
For a move, an estate or a collection that is changing, the valuation is free and without obligation, even for a single piece.
Selling as a private ownerProfessional
An office fleet at the end of its cycle, a dealer lot, a notarial estate, an end of lease or the refurbishment of a public venue: we sort from an inventory, invoicing is done properly and we commit to a date.
Professional disposalsFrequently asked
- Do you buy Art Nouveau and École de Nancy pieces?
- No, and that is a deliberate choice. That market has its own specialists, experts and auctions, and a rough valuation from us would do you a disservice. If your lot mixes the two, we value the modern part and point you in the right direction for the rest, without taking a cut.
Offer us a piece
Attach your photographs here, because the accuracy of the valuation depends on them. We reply within 24 to 48 working hours.