From the cellar to the attic: decorate the Walloon way!

We are adept at traditional designs using noble materials or fluid lines and elegant forms from the high-tech world, so shop in Wallonia!

From the floor to the ceiling, Walloon designers are set to share the art of interior design, tried and tested, we must admit, in our famously wet climate. These creators use their unbridled imagination to offer aesthetic, functional and comfortable products to a demanding national and international customer base.

From the floor to the ceiling, Walloon designers are set to share the art of interior design, tried and tested, we must admit, in our famously wet climate. These creators use their unbridled imagination to offer aesthetic, functional and comfortable products to a demanding national and international customer base.

Traditional walloon matérials

Walloon know-how rests on a longstanding tradition of putting its natural resources to best possible use. Home to marble quarries operated since Roman times, and small granite (blue stone) freely abounding, Wallonia is developing its underground heritage in the field of interior design. Our highly fashionable blue stone for example is essentially used to create paving, wall coverings, decorative elements, worktops, shelves, stairs as well as furniture and sculptures.

Equally firmly established since the second half of the 19^th century is the Walloon glass industry, which saw Charleroi as the world centre of glass manufacturing. The location of industries across the region is no coincidence. Glassware manufacturing depends on coal, using large quantities to feed the kilns. Which is why this type of industry developed mainly in Hainaut, close to the mines.

Wallonia, the giant tree nursery, has always drawn on wood too.

Glass: brilliance and transparency

The Walloon glass industry continues to remain a beacon of Walloon know-how abroad. In fact, the region still accommodates companies of renown today, operating in the processing and cutting of flat glass, installing toughened-glass doors and units, creating furniture, processing, cutting and assembling layered glass, glassblowing, etc.

The manufacturers of mechanically blown drinks glasses, for their part, supply the industry, the hospitality sector and the mass distribution industries, while glass craftsmen produce oval and round globes, vases, lights, paperweights, giant perfume bottles and other items of table art.

Wood: innovation and tradition

Wood covers an important part of Wallonia’s territory, supplying companies that produce antique and contemporary furniture, made-to-measure cupboards, interior doors and solid parquet flooring with the raw materials they need.

Innovation is also part of our offering, with the exclusive manufacture of a mixed wood/steel beam for “low-energy” construction designs. Its design features make it a decorative product eminently suited to be used in mezzanines, lofts, false ceilings for hypermarkets, etc.

Innovation is also part of our offering, with the exclusive manufacture of a mixed wood/steel beam for “low-energy” construction designs. Its design features make it a decorative product eminently suited to be used in mezzanines, lofts, false ceilings for hypermarkets, etc.

Innovation is also part of our offering, with the exclusive manufacture of a mixed wood/steel beam for “low-energy” construction designs. Its design features make it a decorative product eminently suited to be used in mezzanines, lofts, false ceilings for hypermarkets, etc.

DRESSING THE WALLS

Wallonia is also home to a considerable number of businesses that produce finishing products. Just a random selection includes PVC stretch ceilings, motorised blind systems for verandas, pure wool carpets for stairs and top-of-the-range textiles. Not forgetting the originality of innovative textiles made of technical fibres worked in a non-industrial way, such as silkworm gut, copper yarn, polyurethane rubber, synthetic raffia...

A final touch comes in the way of lithographs, silkscreen prints and original works of contemporary art for example, created by a silkscreen printing workshop using the latest environmental technology. Unless of course you prefer the luxurious, faithful imitations of precious materials (wood, marble, onyx, etc.) made thanks to the continued application of techniques that go back to the 19^th century.

CONTEMPORARY LIGHTING

In recent years, light design has earned its credentials in interior design. As such, many companies have stepped up to produce original lighting fixtures that meet the modern-day requirements of refined aesthetics, whether intended to be used in private homes, offices or public/community buildings. Others specialise in exterior lighting, lit ceilings and illuminated retro partitions, or even the manufacturing of giant chandeliers, lampshades, lamp bases, meditation lamps, etc.

All of these companies, and many more besides, are all part of the famous Walloon “art of living” tradition by combining beauty, functionality, quality and innovation.

All of these companies, and many more besides, are all part of the famous Walloon “art of living” tradition by combining beauty, functionality, quality and innovation.

All of these companies, and many more besides, are all part of the famous Walloon “art of living” tradition by combining beauty, functionality, quality and innovation.