Maison Passion

It's where we live, an environment that we've created over the years to reflect who we are and to help make it a place of refuge and anchorage. This September, our craftsmen will be offering you works of art that are sure to find a place in your home, to help you express your feelings, or even in your cabinet of curiosities.

-Charlotte CHARBONNIER - Lighting and textile screen printing:
Since 2016, I have been printing motifs using the artisanal screen printing technique, to make unique lighting and fabric dedicated to your textile projects. Committed creations made in my earth and straw workshop in the Haut-Jura.
In my business, made-to-measure takes pride of place: you choose the design and colour of your fabric and I print it for you by hand.
My inspiration: nature and the plants that surround us. My motivation is to work towards meaningful decoration: working around know-how, the choice of materials and the partners who surround the Kahobas workshop.

-Denis JAXEL - Cabinetmaker:
Woodworking has been a passion of mine for over forty years. This long experience has introduced me to furniture making, woodturning, scrollwork, and now to the creation of paintings using geometric elements.
I mainly work with local woods, but I also enjoy working with more exotic species for small pieces, allowing me to travel through other countries and colours.
Today, I still approach my projects with the same passion.

-Muriel MENESTRIER - Ceramist
The notion of exchange is at the heart of my work.
First and foremost with clay. Malleable and soft, its capacity to receive my hand moves me.
The character of the material gives me the trust needed to deal with sensitive subjects.
And so, from this intimate relationship with the clay come singular faces, those of women with multiple expressions.
Weak but strong women who, like the earth, share a capacity to gather, to give or to suffer.
In the end, these are the destinies of the cups, bowls and plates in our hands.


- Carole NEILSON - Ceramist
To the grit of wind and fire
After spending a few years in San Francisco, where I set up my studio, I'm back in my native Alsace.
I trained as a ceramist at the University of Art and Design in Mol, Belgium.
Self-taught above all, ceramics was a leisure activity for me in the early days, but after 15 years of practice and personal research, my studio finally saw the light of day.
I've developed an alternative firing technique in which smouldering leaves room for the unexpected and the mysterious, so that each piece is unique.
Above all, I try to remain utilitarian while remaining creative. My successive collaborations with chefs have led me to develop several lines of crockery.
I work mainly with stoneware and 'wild' earthenware picked up here and there.
The potter's wheel is my preferred tool for making utilitarian pieces, but for creating sculptures, I prefer shaping.
My source of inspiration is constant experimentation and the search for new textures, shapes and volumes.

- ELOI WAUQUIEZ - Woodturner:
From arboriculture to woodturning, via carpentry or nature activities... my career path is very varied, but always revolves around discovery, the tree, love and respect for nature, materials, bodies and volumes... and the combination of the beautiful and the useful. All this is reflected in my current work!
Wood, found on a walk, a meeting or a visit to the local sawmill, is transformed under my gouges, revealing its hidden beauty and giving it a second life as a utilitarian object.
I work with most of the wood species available to me, but I'm particularly fond of walnut. With a desire to bring beauty into everyday life, I mainly produce everyday objects such as crockery, boxes and small ornaments.