Pierre Frey, founded in 1935, designs, creates and manufactures fabrics and wallpapers in the purest French tradition. The company’s rich collection of no less than 7,000 items includes not only the Pierre Frey designs, but collections from the company’s other three prestigious brands: Braquenié, Fadini Borghi and Boussac.
Pierre Frey is unrivalled in its ability to replicate elaborately the antique surface of a painting hidden in the depths of a château, such as the “Petit Parc” fabric, to reinvent a toile de Jouy fabric into “Voyage en Chine” or place an Empire palmette motif, updated to the 1940s, on satin. This is an art that imitates life to inspire and delight.

Although Pierre Frey is traditionally a fabric and furnishing house, it’s also attuned to the modern world, which has led to the creation of equally stunning home accessories and furniture collections. Maintaining its focus on creativity, Pierre Frey has introduced products which beautifully complement its fabrics – sofas and other upholstered furniture, “carpets and home accessories”. Lamps, cushions, rugs/throws, and perfumed candles are just some of the accessories bearing the distinctive Pierre Frey design hallmark. The company is adventurous in terms of style as well as products, drawing creative inspiration from a range of sources including Imperial China, 18th-century France and contemporary Africa. “Creativity is synonymous with audacity”, as Patrick Frey likes to say: “The source is unimportant as long as one respects the essential factor: a design of the utmost elegance”.

Pierre Frey is proud of its traditional expertise – yet at the same time it is highly inventive, and profoundly eclectic. Eclectic in its prints and woven fabrics – combining its trademark damasks, jacquards and moirés with the latest contemporary fabrics. Eclectic in its materials – which include luxurious silk, fresh cotton, elegant linen, warm wool, precious cashmere. Eclectic in its colours: Pierre Frey’s 5,000 shades offer a palette unrivalled in its diversity and expressive richness – pomegranate, cardinal red, tisane green, absinthe, leaf, meadow, mint, moss, etc…
Eclectic in its influences: a fabric inspired by a La Fontaine fable, by a building in Paris, by mythological animals or by a patisserie window display.

There is something for everyone here: this wide range matches the various tastes of Pierre Frey’s clients – a “club” of connoisseurs just like the Comité Colbert to which the company belongs. Private individuals, leading interior designers, upholsterers, museums and other cultural institutions value Pierre Frey’s expertise and efficiency: made-to-measure solutions, speed, personal attention and expert advice.
Luxury and boutique hotels also figure among Pierre Frey’s high-profile customers, appreciating the company’s personalised service, vast range of fire-resistant fabrics (700 references) and flexibility in production. Ever since 1961 a large proportion of Pierre Frey’s collections has been made at the company’s own fabric production unit in Northern France, an independent manufacturing capability that guarantees absolute exclusivity.

Beyond all this, Pierre Frey represents an outstanding heritage, a remarkable collection of archives at the customer’s disposal. Since 2003, more than 30,000 documents (designs, fabrics, carpet samples) dating from the 16th century through to the present day have been gathered together in Paris where they can be searched by period, by colour, by motif and by technique. It’s an extraordinary resource which presents designs from the company’s four brands along with a selection of rare pieces acquired at auction, from antique dealers and from private collections. This unique heritage makes Pierre Frey a valued point of contact for leading museums across the globe.

In a word, Pierre Frey represents a subtle alliance of know-how and art, the classic and the contemporary; a unique harmony of fabric and colour that appeals to every one of our senses.