Buying vintage design furniture in Toulouse
We buy vintage design furniture in Toulouse, 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 Toulouse produced
Toulouse is a city of engineers before it is a city of collectors. Since the sixties, aerospace has brought head offices, design offices and campuses here, fitted out for efficiency more than for looks. So they were furnished with system furniture, sturdy and built to last.
What we find there
Outside Île-de-France, it is the largest pool of signed office furniture in the country, and refits by the big employers release it regularly. It is also where such furniture most often goes in a skip, for want of an identified buyer. In private homes we find fewer rare pieces than in Lyon or on the coast, but they are often in better condition.
What we look for first
- USM Haller from head offices, design offices and campuses comes first. We work from an inventory and tell you what we will take before collection.
- We also take designer seating in contract editions and meeting tables by recognised makers.
- In the brick houses of the centre, Saint-Cyprien and the faubourgs, we look for good classics bought new: seating, lighting, tables.
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 Toulouse, 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 680 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 Toulouse.
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 office furniture from an industrial site?
- Yes, if it is signed and durable: USM Haller first, then seating by identified designers and tables by recognised makers. Generic office furniture is not for us, because it has no second life at our price level. On a mixed floor, we sort from a photo inventory, as our professional disposals page explains.
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.