French Artisan Getting Noticed in The World of Design with Reclaimed Champagne Making Artifacts

    MONTPELLIER, FRANCE, August 31, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- "We collaborated with Lili, a French interior designer, to bring you the original Champagne sofa table."

L'Atelier du Meuble www.LATDM.com was formed out of a passion for wine and the wine making process. Each pupitre comes from a vineyard in Champagne, France. "We hand select each piece and consider the entire process to be a work of art."

Lili, a French interior designer, crafted the first table in 2010 for her own decor. Following requests from designers, Lili authorized L'Atelier du Meuble to offer this collection.

Our sofa tables are unique, custom made and handcrafted by skilled artisans. Each "Vintage" table is made with a reclaimed pupitre of an average of 100 and + years old, a unique artifact from Champagne making.

Pupitre is the French name for the hinged, wooden "A-Frame" rack used for hand-riddling Champagne bottles prior to disgorging. (Riddling settles the yeast sediment into the neck so that it can be easily removed by the disgorging step.) This artifact is reclaimed from France and acts as the base of the table.

It was 1818 before the story of riddling really started. Legend has it that Madame Clicquot, prompted by an employee called Antoine Muller, took a kitchen table and had "holes drilled in it at an angle, so that the bottles might be set at different angles and be turned while remaining in their places." It was a worker with the House of Morzet called Thomassin who then put the idea into practice. The riddling table, forerunner of the pupitre, was born!

There is truly no other piece like this on the market today and especially one that has sourced such unique and historical pieces. Whether we define them as art pieces or furniture design, they are masterpieces in their own rite.

Owner Eric says that he sees his pieces, which are priced by size and the age of the wood, in businesses, as pieces used by interior designers, functional furniture for the modern industrial home owner, and essentially a statement piece for anyone.

For press interviews, contact our US spokesperson Eric Sorlin via email: [email protected],
The tables are available in Washington DC at AMERICAN EYE Whashington DC Design Center

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