The other home countries it is the Australia

This is a workshop in length with rows of looms that give the impression to have always been there. Multiple Windows and white walls do not mitigate this mechanical atmosphere. Everything is silent in this workshop just illuminated by the first rays of the Sun at Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, a small village in the catalan hinterland. Everything seems to be empesé as belonging to a past century. And, gradually, strings slamming, wheels squeaky, gears seeking to make up a deafening cacophony, small to small, harmoniously as in a rustic Symphony. As every morning since 1873, the last catalan fabric plant starts! The paradox is that of the shambles of dark and élimées machines by age, leaves a cloth coloured with its solar stripes in bright colors, the canvases of the Sun. Sixteen years after their restart, Henri Quinta, the new owner, marvels always as much. "It's quite moving this contrast between this noisy world, with the old mechanics of the time of Zola, and the result, coloured, soft, feminine tissue."It is on a beautiful morning of 1993 that Françoise and Henri Quinta drive the door of the old "plant" without and Garcerie, the last workshop making Catalan tissue on both sides of the Pyrenees. Françoise is a large store of decoration in Perpignan and Henri is the head of a family business specializing in antique furniture and creation. When they learn that the Catalan tissue plant is in receivership, they make the voyage of Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, some 60 kilometres from Perpignan. And it is love at first sight. Weaving, it is not really their RADIUS but both have a keen sense of decoration, a reckless love of catalan heritage and ideas to resell. "It was even unconscious, known about textile but it seemed that it understood this product which was not to our liking." "It was thought that could be both the perpetuation and save 10 jobs by providing an additional key," says Henri Quinta. And added: "we relied on the very important archives of the company, but we have brought differences by creating completely custom scratch and giving tissues very Mediterranean colourful character, so they are not classed as Basque fabrics."In the space of a few years, revisited catalan linen would move from the shops of souvenirs to posh shops of decoration in Paris, London, Tokyo or New York.

To meet this challenge, the Quinta couple first relied on Félix Planas, an "old foreman who was plant at end of arms".Today, it is Corinne Vila, a textile engineer graduated from the school of Epinal, who is the head of the 28 employees. Henri Quinta, student of Decorative Arts in Paris specialization interior architecture, draw tissue from 30 basic colours. A fabric of 1.80 metre, to assemble 4.300 son. It took all rethink in this factory in the techniques of the early 1900's, including changing the width of the fabric. New machines made their appearance with, very recently, new trades on measurement. It is through the show House and objects, where he went twice a year for his personal activities, that Henri Quinta was able to impose these paintings. Subsequently, as he likes to point out, these are meetings and extreme availability to share his passion for the new catalan fabric. Is a Japanese who, at first contact, asked the exclusivity of the product for his country where, late August, a fourth shop will be open. The other home countries, it is the Australia. But the United States. The paintings of Sun have, for five years, their own showroom in Paris by their daughter, Bérénice. The Quinta couple continues to live this "beautiful love story which is still at the stage of the passion" with however a concern permanent inventory management: "Cannot be in magazines and not stores."A hard to find for a still small-scale strategy equilibrium.