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Peyramaure & Eguizier |
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In the 1880s, the number of shipments of fruit and vegetables to Paris, London and Belgium was constantly increasing.
The question was raised as to how to send these products on long journeys without damaging them.
It was André Peyramaure, a forwarder in Objat, who found the solution.
He had the idea of creating wicker baskets to transport the fruit and vegetables.
The marshy environment along the Loyre River was ideal for planting osier.
He therefore set up Objat's first wicker workshop which soon prospered, since all the Objat forwarders used its baskets.
In the early 20th century, André's two elder sons, Louis and Charles, went to the National Wickerwork School in Haute-Marne.
On their return they founded the Peyramaure factory in Objat, in 1909. The osier plantation now stretched along both sides of the Loyre.
In 1912, Louis and Charles went off to do their military service, then fought in the First World War.
They asked their old school friend Auguste Hersault to take care of the factory in their absence.
In the period between the wars, production was diversified; the baskets were still made but André Peyramaure worked on the manufacture of wicker cases
and furniture (chairs, armchairs, cots).
In 1920, Miss Peyramaure married Jean-Baptiste Eguizier. Now the two families' destiny was linked to that of the factory.
The arrival of rattan on the market allowed the company to take a new direction, because it was easy to use and did not require any farming work.
A whole new range of furniture came out with this new material.
In the 1950s, under the direction of Maurice Eguizier, the factory increased its output and the headcount went from 40 to nearly 300.
Maurice Eguizier, an entrepreneur at heart, then invented a new concept: varnished oak furniture lined with rattan.
In the early 1960s, Peyramaure and Eguizier went their separate ways. The Peyramaure factory closed at the beginning of the 1980s.
The Eguizier company, after many ups and downs, continued to innovate with furniture for children,
and its clientele became European with 20% of the market focused on Benelux and Spain.
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