Votre Maison Sofa Tables

A solid oak occasional table with inset ceramic tile top by Guillerme et Chambron for Votre Maison, France, circa 1960/1970s A small French mid-century occasional table with a ceram...

A pair of end tables in oak by Guillerme & Chambron, a very atypical design that rests on asymmetrical legs.

Jolie guéridon par Guillerme et chambron réglable en hauteur.

This vintage yet modern bleached oak wood dining table by Guillerme et Chambron seats 12 when extended and 8 when closed. A chic harlequin geometric wood pattern highlights the beau...

Guillerme et Chambron for Votre Maison, pair of side tables, oak, ceramic, France, 1960s This side table, crafted from solid oak, displays the robust geometric language associated w...

Edition table Josette. Tilework executed by B. Danikowski. Robert Guillerme placed equal emphasis on function and aesthetics, creating a look as staid as it was arresting. While hi...

The duo of Robert Guillerme and Jacques Chambron and their company, Votre Maison denote a landmark of French mid-century design history. Their focus was as keenly attuned to function...

Round oak coffee table with beautiful colored ceramic tiles in the top. The materials and forms of this table show the characteristics of the French designers Guillerme et Chambron. ...

A guillerme et Chambron edition votre maison oak and ceramic coffee table

Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of France, where he decorated homes and designed furniture for the well regarded Rogier workshops. In 1948 Jacques Chambron left his work as a painter and decorator on the Rue Nollet in Paris, and relocated his family to join Guillerme. The two had met in 1940 while imprisoned by the Germans in East Prussia and bonded over, among other more obvious things, their shared passion for design. In 1949 the pair discovered Émile Dariosecq, a master cabinet maker who had a shop in the city, and who was willing to produce their designs. The three started Votre Maison. The association was destined to be as influential as prolific. Not only did Votre Maison produce over two thousand models during the later half of the twentieth century, it also left an indelible stamp on design of the 50s, 60s and 70s. The company’s output served as a model for a vast field of livable contemporaneous design. The soul of Guillerme et Chambron’s work was in the company’s name (“Your House"). Their focus was as keenly attuned to functionality—furniture’s use in daily life—as to the creation of innovative design. For the pair of designers the home was envisioned as a place where the family could live both comfortably and in aesthetic harmony. Robert Guillerme, who designed most of the work, possessed a limitless creative ambition, producing designs for everything from grand dressers and sideboards to the smallest elements of a space, such as pedestals, shelving, benches, and lighting. This steady output of beautiful furniture bucked convention not merely in the equal emphasis Guillerme placed on function and aesthetics, but in the almost paradoxical creation...

An oak and painted ceramic tile side table designed and produced by Guillerme & Chambron, France, c. 1960s. Dimensions: 17.25” H x 16.125” W x 16.125” D

This coffee table by French designers Guillerme et Chambron, produced by Edition Votre Maison in the 1960s–1970s, is a strong example of their functional yet distinctive aesthetic. C...