A family joinery workshop since 1987
Two generations of Corbets, four joiners and a 600 m² workshop in Seynod, where everything we fit is designed, cut and assembled.
“A staircase is a piece of furniture you walk on”
I grew up among the shavings of my father’s workshop. After a joinery apprenticeship, I spent six years travelling with the Compagnons guild, from Lyon to Bordeaux, before coming back to Annecy in 2005. In 2009, I took over the workshop.
Three things matter to me: designing every project with you, making things ourselves rather than buying them ready-made, and fitting them ourselves. Made-to-measure furniture must be exactly that, down to the last millimetre, and only the person who made it can guarantee it.
Julien Corbet
Owner and joiner
Thirty-odd years of shavings
1987
A barn in Cran-Gevrier
Pierre Corbet opens his workshop with a band saw, a planer and plenty of elbow grease. His first customers: chalet shutters and doors.
1998
The first spiral staircase
Three months of drawing and cutting for a mansion in Talloires. Staircases become the workshop’s speciality.
2009
Julien takes over
Back from his years with the Compagnons, Julien takes over from his father, who stays at the bench two days a week.
2016
A new workshop in Seynod
600 m², a sample room and a timber drying store: room enough to make whole kitchens and three-storey staircases.
2022
Restoring old windows
With Clara’s arrival, the workshop now saves the windows of around twenty farmhouses and village homes every year.
Today
Four joiners, around forty projects a year
And one rule that has not changed: whatever leaves the workshop is designed, made and fitted by us.
- joiners, including our apprentice
- 4
- of workshop in Seynod
- 600 m²
- projects fitted around the lake
- 650
- guarantee on fitting
- 10 years
The hands behind the work
Pierre Corbet
Founder
Still at the bench on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for staircases and advice.
Clara Mathieu
Joiner, restoration
Specialist in old windows and panelling, trained at the École Boulle.
Lina Benali
Apprentice cabinetmaker
In the second year of her diploma, she already makes our kitchen drawers.
Come and see the workshop
By appointment, Monday to Friday: sample room, work in progress and coffee included.