Maison Bonjour · The Houses
Behind every object, a house. Behind every house, gestures that time hasn't erased.
Maison Bonjour doesn't just select products. We look for houses, workshops, families, gestures passed down. Every artisan featured here gives a region its material, its scent, or its memory.
Here, the gesture has never been rushed. Since 1947, on this coast where the clay is the color of the sky before a storm, potters still paint by hand, brushstroke after brushstroke. The Petit Breton, the bowl with a first name, was born in 1950 under the hand of Raymond Cordier, and since then, each decorator repeats the same faithful, patient gesture. We chose this piece because it doesn't lie: it still bears the mark of the hand that created it.
In Perros-Guirec, where the wind carries the scent of iodine even into the gardens, Mylène Ricard and Paul Reuzé took over the story of a brand born in their family in 2008. They brought all their exacting standards to it: organic skincare products conceived and manufactured in Brittany, featuring hand-harvested kelp, gorse, and buckwheat – plants from the moors and dunes that no other cosmetic brand dares to touch. A young generation serving a legacy.
On the Guérande peninsula, where the evening light makes the marshes sparkle, Mérédith and Gautier Férard have been continuing a thousand-year-old tradition since 2018, inherited from a company founded in 1999. Every evening, about twenty salt workers manually harvest the flower formed on the water's surface, without ever touching the bottom. Two years of natural drying, without any refining: this salt preserves the memory of the marsh that saw its birth.
At Olfapac, Françoise has been creating beautifully scented cards for years, a discrete heir to the orange blossom-scented handkerchief, perfumed since the 17th century. Made in France, biodegradable, and hand-impregnated with a fragrance that lingers long after the package is opened: a small gift slipped into each order, so that the experience begins even before you open the box.
In Lorient, facing the ocean, Delphine Vannoote founded Atelier D in 2020, inheriting a craft passed down from mother to daughter. Her galettes and palets, awarded for their buckwheat shortbread and caramel flakes, are kneaded with extra-fresh butter and finished with a hint of Guérande sea salt. Nothing else: just the honest taste of butter and Brittany.
Ma Kibell, meaning "my tub" in Breton, is a soap factory in Saint-Donan, Côtes-d'Armor, where soaps are still gently steamed, much like cooking a dish you love. Seaweed, Guérande salt, coastal plants: everything comes from here, hand-picked and saponified in-house. A straightforward, artisanal craft that smells of the sea and patience.
Every month, new houses will join this page, edition after edition.