Furniture Marolles

Furniture Marolles is a collaboration between father and daughter, Ed and Ariel Clay. For over four decades, Ed crafted bespoke furniture in California’s Carneros region, while Ariel built her career at the forefront of contemporary design, working with leading studios including BDDW, APPARATUS, Uhuru Design, and Egg Collective.

Their shared venture began with a singular inspiration: the original Marolles chair, designed by Jean Touret and produced in the 1950s by the Artisans of Marolles, a small cooperative in France’s Loire Valley. After discovering the chair at Fog Fair in San Francisco in 2015, Ed and Ariel reached out to the Touret family, who granted their blessing to revive this quietly iconic design.

The Clays have expanded the collection to include four-legged, counter, and bar stool iterations, remaining faithful to the spirit of Jean Touret and the Artisans of Marolles. With fewer than one hundred of the vintage chairs ever made, the Marolles collection remains a rediscovered gem of mid-century design: practical yet refined, familiar yet enduring, equally at home in residential, hospitality, and commercial settings.

Furniture Marolles is honored to have the continued support of the Touret family in bringing new life to this timeless design.