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All the things which are used to the men are at the same time beautiful and good as them are of a good use. SOCRATE

Entrez dans le magasin... Cliquez ICI Spécialiste des Meubles en bois courbés. THONET, J.J. KOHN, Fischel... Mais aussi les objets de Forêt Noire et de curiosités.

Among the pioneers of the Saint-Paul Village, the store of antiquities "To the Good Use" was built in 25 years a solid reputation of expert in Thonet and his followers of Eastern Europe.who let us be us ? Objective: to give again life and contemporary use with a fantastic collection of chairs, additional authentic armchairs and out of wooden curved of XIXe and beginning XXe centuries.The object of the Month . Return to the roots of a functional art which is never obsolete. Tightened against some tables and chairs THONET, rocking chair and armchairs, of the decorative objects are put on the front of the scene: Davits and carry-canes of the shape of bear, stags and chamois of Brienz, lamps carved of branches of fir tree and sheets of oak, country cottages… Curios and small furniture recall Black Forest style.

History of the logo AU BON USAGE Homage of the "Bon Usage" whose emblem is borrowed from the famous chair Thonet N°14, plunging its roots in a fertile ground in talents! Its curved branches to some extent evoking the family tree of this Austrian dynasty of universally recognized craftsman-creators. Intentions deliberated on the "Bon Usage":  to rehabilitate the function first Thonet pieces of furniture and other candidates of the time, to find a use contemporary with the craft industry and objets d'art of formerly, to make take again root with the things fallen into the lapse of memory.