2024-01-10 09:54:15
The recipe seems simple. From a wooden board we get a hairbrush. Everything, entirely made by hand, from A to Z. For almost 150 years, the historic brushworks of Altesse Studio (née Fournival), founded in 1875 in Mouy (Oise), has been an institution in the town. And sometimes a family affair, from one end of the production chain to the other! “My little sister is in the finishing workshop and my other sister, who I trained, is right there in the back,” says Delphine Dequin, an employee. From her workstation in the assembly workshop, she controls the implantation of the bristles into the rubber of the bearings. “We were already a family when I worked at the Société Générale de Brosserie (SGB) in Mouy,” she says. But when it closed in 2007, we all ended up here. It doesn’t bother me, I’m in the bath. »
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In the past, the hairbrush was well established in the Thérain valley, which was its French epicenter. Today, brush shops can be counted on the fingers of one hand in France and, like many others, Altesse Studio almost disappeared. When the company faltered to the point of being liquidated, in 2005, an entrepreneur took over the helm and opted for a complete change: a high-end boar hair brush, made by hand.
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