About

Creating from what has already been, to open a new form of presence.

Founded by Arthur Boulanger and Arthur Millès, Arthur Arthur is a young Marseille furniture edition house. This pair of designer-craftsmen conceives and builds furniture in one-off pieces and small series in their own workshop, setting forms and materials in dialogue.

Their work is grounded in the selection of salvaged wood, chosen for its history and its condition, which they rework to give it a new purpose, a new presence, between past and future.

Material as a starting point

It begins with a shared attention to materials, to forgotten objects and to things that have already lived. The pair share an instinctive eye for salvaged wood and overlooked fragments, often ignored, which they see as starting points.

Behind each recovered piece lies an invisible density: a history, a patina, marks of memory. Observing that materials still carrying value are thrown away in a context of mass-produced, standardised furniture, they choose to make these their raw material. A choice that feels like a creative inevitability rather than a constraint.

Wood sits at the heart of their practice today, while other materials such as stainless steel, glass and stone are gradually enriching their research, opening new dialogues of texture, finish and time.

Their work is as much about revealing as it is about making: bringing a latent beauty to light, extending what already exists, transforming without erasing. This approach calls for a way of designing that is attentive to the existing, able to absorb the unexpected and the singularities of the material.

Each piece becomes a space for experimentation, a balance between control and letting go. The result embraces a form of considered imperfection, where traces and irregularities remain visible. One-off pieces, alive, that own their history and their rough edges.

Drawing for a place

Pieces from the collection can be reworked to other dimensions and in other woods. The pair also draw new pieces for a space, a use or a project, and edition series for places open to the public. See bespoke

In the press

Le Journal de la Maison, Résidences Décoration, Côté Maison and Muuuz have all written about the house and its pieces. See the coverage