Pierre Frey SA is a French interior design company founded in 1935 by designer Pierre Frey. The family-owned company designs and manufactures traditional French

fabric Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, and different types of fabric. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is no ...

wallpaper Wallpaper is used in interior decoration to cover the interior walls of domestic and public buildings. It is usually sold in rolls and is applied onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneve ...

carpet A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of Pile (textile), pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century synthetic fiber, synthetic fibres such as polyprop ...

s, rugs and furniture.

Founder

Pierre Frey was born on 29 December 1903, to a northern French family. After a first job as a furniture polisher for an antique dealer, he worked with a milliner, then with a fabrics house by the name of Burger. In 1932, he quit his position to manage the Lauer house, another major fabric creator of the time.

Company history

During his time at Lauer house, he convinced its designer, Jean Chatanay, to join him in founding a new company. In 1935, the new company bearing the Frey name was formed. Today, Pierre Frey SA owns the brand Pierre Frey, as well as the brands Braquenié, Boussac, Fadini Borghi and Le Manach. The company’s collection consists of about 7,000 items with various themes according to the decades, from classic to contemporary. This collection includes the Pierre Frey designs and the collections from the company’s other brands. Today, the company is still a family-owned design house, run by Pierre Frey’s son, Patrick, and his sons, Pierre, Vincent and Matthieu Frey. In 2014, Pierre Frey collaborated with artist

Toxic Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a subst ...

for a collection featuring his designs. Pierre Frey is member of the

Comité Colbert Comité Colbert is a French association "to promote the concept of luxury." It was founded in 1954 by Jean-Jacques Guerlain, son of French perfumer Jacques Guerlain. The association has more than 100 members, most of which are French companies in ...

References

External links

Official website
{{ACArt Design companies of France Brand name materials French designers Companies based in Paris French companies established in 1935