Bisson Bruneel is Re-Imagining Textiles for the Contemporary Home
The Canadian Poet and Author Anne Michaels wrote, “Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.” This succinct description immediately captures the allures of a charming and functional home. It is these twin concepts — of functionality and beauty — that are the ethos of Bisson Bruneel’s latest innovation of textile works.
The contemporary textile brand was founded over 50 years ago by François Bruneel in Lyon, France. Now operated by Yann and Jerome Bruneel, the company recently launched a line of custom blinds and panels using Abaca fibres. Abaca is extracted from the trunk of the banana tree. Typically used for paper production, Abaca fibres can also be knotted to create skeins and handwoven to create textiles alone or in collaboration with other materials such as copper or leather.
With simple soft colours that personify elegance and practicality, the finished product is a unique textile piece that shows its history and unique colouring based upon the season and location of the fibre harvest. The result is a canvas for creativity. Bisson Bruneel sources their Abaca fibres from xxx in Africa and work with weavers in xxx to create their custom blinds. Prioritizing sustainability at the forefront of their products, Abaca harvesting does not engage in deforestation, and instead preserves the original banana tree without uprooting the trunk.
This newest line of textile panels create artwork that can move throughout the home, while playing with light and space. Bisson Bruneel welcomes a fusion of materials, coaxing its customers to conceptualize space in a multitude of ways. In a recent endeavour to work with other artisans, Bisson Bruneel has inserted their fabrics between two pieces of glass to create multiuse panels that can be used for sliding doors, shower panels, and even dining room tables.
The Abaca line joins Bisson Bruneel’s existing fabric textiles which can be used for outdoor furniture, custom curtain design, furniture upholstering, and more. Their dedication to honouring natural fibres and processes draws on their collaborations with local farmers who harvest wool and local artists who design embroidered textiles.
The simplicity and beauty of Bisson Bruneel fabrics lend themselves to an array of environments including contemporary homes, boutique hotels and even an eighteenth century farmhouse design installation.
We all hope to invest in pieces that provide us with room for creativity and personal expression. We want to rearrange our living rooms, swap out books on bookshelves, and diversify our art collections. We want to play an active role in our home’s design, and to create spaces that represent the best of our own imaginations and experiences. Bisson Bruneel’s thoughtful approach to textiles imports beauty into your home and points you in the right direction.