DTurkish ome, Burmese pagoda, Venetian ball … who would imagine that we would travel so much with lampshade! In the workshop of Nadège Tricard, in Bugue, in Dordogne, it is a happy shambles (no, it’s very tidy) of fabrics, carcasses, wires, stripes, sequins, velvet, silk, damas, linen, cotton and even parchment.
Since 2018, the craftsman has operated a good retraining. We can see today its creations in the salons of housing or antique dealers, Parisian shops or at the prestigious international cultural heritage fair in Paris. And in the houses of its customers. Alsatian squares, suspensions, petticoats, pleated and even extravagant victories lampshades “like those in the British series” Downton Abbey “”.
Craft and high -end
Nice turn for the one who, with a DUT of mechanical and productic engineering obtained in Bordeaux, had already approached the beautiful, by working for Cartier or Christofle. But one day, finished the Parisian life, exhausting, Nadège returned to “his” Dordogne, with her two daughters, the desire to start everything again and the opportunity to buy, in the heart of the Bugue, a village house, all in stones and stairs, opening on two streets.
The girls grew up, went to study in Bordeaux, the lawyer with whom she worked as an administrative secretary left – “I learned business management.” We had to “think”. “My idea was craftsmanship and high-end… I scrolled through the training catalog offered by the National Institute of Art Trades, which has become the Institute for French know-how. I sewn, I was a handyman. Range, it was for me. But I had no idea of the panel of perspectives offered to me. »»
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Training, support
First training session at the cat workshop which watches, in Géné, in Charente. “I discovered an ability to harmonize the lampshade and the foot. Honestly, something innate I didn’t know. »»
“You can create the most beautiful thing in the world, if you don’t know how to sell it, it won’t work”
The second step was the installation. The ground floor of his house, whose door gives on a pedestrian path, lent itself. “I was accompanied by a bell of Bergerac companies. It was important not to be alone in the face of suppliers, to test my ability to be a business chief, to have an accounting space. All previous steps in my professional life have brought me skills today necessary, sell, supply, control of multiple materials … ”
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-“You can create the most beautiful thing in the world, if you don’t know how to sell it, it won’t work. “Drawing his inspiration from the cult book by Julia Cameron” Free your creativity “, Nadège learned how to arrange a stand with the Chamber of Trades, for example.
She was also able to “position” her business, thanks to a cousin, Sébastien Tricard, who, in Bordeaux, with her Camélia agency, advises companies, among others, in their journey of digitalization. “We worked on the image I wanted to transmit, my first logo was outdated, we imagined another. »»
From living room to show, Paris, Angoulême, Limoges, Bordeaux, Nadège approaches institutional and particular customers. From a designer showroom to the Trocadéro at the Hotel-Restorant Charbonnel, Brantôme, Leroy Merlin de Périgueux, or a hunt in Sologne, it moves to its customers. Also welcomes novices for mini-stages, “for fun, I do not earn my life with internships, but I love it”.
Unique know-how
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Less than two hours for a simple conic, more than twenty for a fan lampshade or a Venetian ball. An average of 150 achievements per year. Plus restorations. It is sometimes necessary to “adapt”: to transpose into plans the photo of an old lampshade, to find the carcassier who will make his tailor-made template, to find unusual parts, re-electrifying … his suppliers are sometimes found until Italy.
“It gives a very special light. It is also an eco -responsible material, with the valuation of a waste ”
After having imagined and patented a lamp easily available in a thousand ways, called Laura, the abat-joint wanted to find a forgotten technique, that of the parchment, as a substitute for the lampshades in pork of yesteryear. “It gives a very special light. It is also an eco -responsible material, with the valuation of a waste. Only one person owned this knowledge, at the Dumas tannery, in Ardèche, in Annonay.
The next Paris International Heritage Salon of Paris will have the theme of Art Deco, and Nadège provides for a focus on its lampshades in parchment, unique know-how.
40 Grand-Rue, 24,260 Le Bugue. 06 63 64 01 25. www.maison-tricard.fr
