Christiane Lemieux

Christiane Lemieux Founder and Creative Director Lemieux Et Cie, Author of The Finer Things, Undecorate and Frictionles

A table built like this doesn't ask for special occasions.Corvaux is cerused oak with a brass inlay tracing the table's ...
08/24/2026

A table built like this doesn't ask for special occasions.

Corvaux is cerused oak with a brass inlay tracing the table's edge, set on a trestle base built the old way, thick, honest, made to outlast whoever's sitting at it. This is the table that gets used every single day and looks better for it.

30% off the Corvaux Collection, for a limited time.

Coming home might be the only reset your nervous system actually trusts.We spend all summer chasing new places. New beds...
08/23/2026

Coming home might be the only reset your nervous system actually trusts.

We spend all summer chasing new places. New beds, new light, new sounds outside the window. It’s wonderful, and it’s also work. Every unfamiliar room asks something of your body before you can rest in it.

Then you walk back through your own door.

There’s a reason that first exhale at home feels different from any hotel room, however beautiful. Your nervous system has spent years mapping this space. It knows where the light falls in the morning. It knows the exact give of that chair. None of it requires a decision. That absence of decision is what rest actually is.

We don’t think of home as a nucleus, but that’s precisely its function. Everything else orbits it. The travel, the work, the noise of the season, all of it eventually has to come back to a center of gravity. A home built with intention gives you somewhere to actually land.

Welcome back.

Hair on hide arrives.The brain does not wait for the hand. Visual texture activates the somatosensory cortex before cont...
08/19/2026

Hair on hide arrives.

The brain does not wait for the hand. Visual texture activates the somatosensory cortex before contact is made. You see the grain lie in one direction, and your fingertips have already answered.

This is why hide has never gone out of fashion. Karl Springer knew it in the seventies.
Jean-Michel Frank knew it in the thirties, working in it with parchment and vellum in the rue de Verneuil.

We are now adding it to your design tools at Lemieux et Cie.

Every hide is different. Nothing matches; everything layers beautifully.

The Salon WallThe salon hang begins in 1667, in the Salon Carré of the Louvre, where the Académie stacked paintings floo...
08/17/2026

The Salon Wall

The salon hang begins in 1667, in the Salon Carré of the Louvre, where the Académie stacked paintings floor to cornice and position was a verdict. Eye level meant favor. The ceiling meant exile. Artists called it being skied.

We hang this way now for a different reason.

The eye makes three to four saccades a second. It does not rest on a single image; it hunts. A salon wall gives it somewhere to go. Psychologist and scientist Daniel Berlyne showed that pleasure tracks visual complexity along an inverted U. Too little and the brain disengages. Too much and it withdraws. The salon wall sits at the top of that curve, which is why a room hung this way feels alive rather than busy.

Nothing matches. Everything belongs.

Les Terrains started as a way out of my own head. Ink and pigment on paper. A marbled ground. Lines that behave like wat...
08/16/2026

Les Terrains started as a way out of my own head. Ink and pigment on paper. A marbled ground. Lines that behave like water finding its level.

There is science under the sanctuary.

Semir Zeki at UCL found that looking at a painting you find beautiful raises blood flow in the medial orbitofrontal cortex. The same region that activates in love. Ed Vessel's work at NYU showed that art which genuinely moves you switches on the default mode network, the circuitry the brain otherwise reserves for thinking about yourself. The painting stops being a thing on a wall. It gets filed with the self.

Making it does something else entirely. Researchers at Drexel measured cortisol before and after forty-five minutes of art making. Three quarters of participants came down. It made no difference whether they had ever made anything before.

So the terrain is literal. You draw a landscape. The landscape redraws you.

I used to think pillows were an afterthought. Something you grabbed on the way out the door to a shoot, a finishing touc...
08/09/2026

I used to think pillows were an afterthought. Something you grabbed on the way out the door to a shoot, a finishing touch with no real weight of its own. I don't think that anymore.

A pillow is where pattern gets to misbehave a little. The sofa has to commit to one fabric for years. The pillow can change its mind every season. It's the low-stakes place to try the print you're not sure about, the color that feels almost too bold for a whole chair.

The rule I keep coming back to: mix scale before you mix color. A large floral wants a small graphic beside it. A solid needs a print to lean on. Two patterns of the same size will fight. Two of different sizes will talk to each other.

And texture matters as much as pattern. Velvet against linen. Embroidery against something plain and unadorned. The eye rests on contrast, not on more of the same.

This is the part of a room that's easiest to change and hardest to get right. Which is exactly why it's worth the attention. Layering isn't about adding more. It's about adding the right amount of tension.

Brass went out of fashion when it got too polished, too matched, too loud. The decades that followed answered with brush...
08/07/2026

Brass went out of fashion when it got too polished, too matched, too loud. The decades that followed answered with brushed nickel and chrome: cooler, quieter, safer.

What brings it back now is the opposite: unlacquered, left to darken and spot, one striking piece per room instead of a set.

Which piece would you bring back into your own home?

Pierre Jeanneret arrived in Chandigarh in 1951 and stayed nearly fifteen years. LeCorbusier drew the city. Jeanneret sta...
08/03/2026

Pierre Jeanneret arrived in Chandigarh in 1951 and stayed nearly fifteen years. Le
Corbusier drew the city. Jeanneret stayed to furnish it.

Burma teak, cut and joined by hand for a government office in a country four years into independence. They were meant to be identical. The craftsperson's hand refused. No two are the same, and the stencil is still on the door.

Above it, Les Femmes. Modigliani is in them. Gauguin is in them. So is every century that has looked at the female form and tried to hold it still. Signed, numbered, and finite, on German etching paper with a deckled edge.

In the foreground, the curve of a Rozette, made by hand in North Carolina this year.
Chandigarh. My studio. Carolina. Nothing here matches. Everything here is in key.

A monogram is a small mark with a long history.From ancient coins and royal seals to the hand-embroidered linens of a fa...
08/02/2026

A monogram is a small mark with a long history.

From ancient coins and royal seals to the hand-embroidered linens of a family trousseau, intertwined initials have always carried something deeply personal: identity, intimacy, and belonging.

Soon, we will introduce our own collection of custom monograms designed to feel at once traditional and entirely modern. Embroidered onto a pillow, coverlet, or favorite piece of linen, each becomes a quiet signature: unmistakably yours and made to endure.

Because the smallest detail can elevate the everyday into something exceptional and transform a beautiful object into a personal heirloom.

I am shooting them now, and they are coming soon. Make every detail yours.

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