Journal
Collab
November 08, 2023
Bertrand Jayr the interiew
Between Art and Design, there is only a small step. In general, the creative process remains, in my opinion, essentially the same from one specialty to another. — Bertrand Jayr
We’ve often told you about the poetically designed products that designer Bertrand Jayr has created for us, but we’ve never really taken the time to introduce him to you. In order to fill this gap, Bertrand Jayr kindly agreed to be interviewed. What sparked your interest in industrial design and how did you pursue your […]
Tips & Tricks
September 22, 2023
Flat screen and TV unit
Flat Screen and Concrete TV Stand: Should You Place It on Top or Mount It on the Wall? 2 solutions
When you’re setting up your living room, especially if you’re still in the construction phase, it’s essential to consider the placement of your flat screen and concrete TV stand. There are two main options: placing your flat screen on top of the TV stand or mounting it above. Each of these approaches has its advantages […]
Collab
September 17, 2023
LB FEAT. PAPOTTE
Our concrete furniture on exhibit at Papotte, probably the most stylistic vacation complex in France
PAPOTTE is located in the heart of a restored 15th-century mill in Burgundy, France. Papotte’s 4 uniquely charming vacation houses can accommodate 2, 4, 6 or 15 people in a magnificent natural environment. Papotte hasn’t stopped there to ensure you have a dream stay, and offers a total experience in their universe. A café that […]
Tips & Tricks
September 15, 2023
Our TV Stands for Your Living Room
Our 5 Concrete TV Stands for Your Living Room: Raw and Timeless Design
Our Styles of Concrete TV Stands You’re familiar with our design principles: drawing inspiration from architecture, understanding material constraints to use them intelligently, and adding that special touch that sets us apart. Add to that the talent and personality of the designers we collaborate with, and you get TV stands made of concrete (but not […]
Projets
June 03, 2023
Berkshire Residence
Our concrete counter stools at Berkshire Residence
The Brooklyn-based architecture studio Of Possible, designs a beautiful construction for a very structured program. The house is located in rural Sheffield, Massachusetts, among the wooded hills of the Berkshires. A region where Appalachian wilderness and historic colonial towns coexist. The program sponsors grew up on the property in an old colonial house that had […]
Shooting sessions
January 11, 2023
Strut struts his stuff in front of a cemetery
Strut concrete coffee tables at Grange Berchet cemetery
There’s nothing like a dull winter sky to take pictures in front of a cemetery. Our Strut concrete coffee tables Just enough time to load the truck with a carpet, a few outdated accessories, our concrete and tinted glass tables and we are on our way to the second cemetery of Belleville-en-Beaujolais: the landscaped cemetery […]
Projets
January 06, 2023
Dice at Helen of Troy
236 Dice concrete cubes at Helen of Troy Lausanne
Last October, Helen of Troy, the global consumer products company, inaugurated its new office for their Europe and Middle East headquarters. They are located near Lausanne, Switzerland in a new kind of office building created by QoQa: the QG center. The interior designer commissioned by Helen of Troy fell in love with our DICE modular […]
Shooting sessions
January 06, 2023
Curb at Studio EVOL
Curb concrete coffee table by Studio EVOL
We recently took benefit of the hospitality offered by the design and communication agency Studio Evol to take pictures of the concrete, metal and wood dining table Sharp by the designer Bertand Jayr. Our concrete coffee table And while we were at it, we also brought another piece of furniture from the same designer: the […]
Shooting sessions
January 06, 2023
Sharp at Studio EVOL
Sharp concrete dining table at Studio EVOL
At 3 bis rue Villeneuve in Lyon’s 4th arrondissement, Studio Evol’s offices are located on the ground floor of a typical building of the Croix-Rousse district: high ceilings with a mezzanine that houses a brainstorming room; stone walls and concrete posts that are left unfinished; a choice of sober materials that work very well together; […]
Collab
November 25, 2022
LB FEAT. cinqpoints
Concrete frame LB FEAT. cinqpoints
If you follow the Lyon Béton brand, you know our passion for architecture. Just like the architects we admire, we are obsessed with the aesthetics of form, the harmony of ratios and the use that humans will make of our creations. We found this obsession at cinqpoints and its founder Larence Calafat. The universe she […]
Stories
October 24, 2022
Dice at Zoé
Dice concrete storage unit at Zoé
In the Haussmannian apartment of Zoé, art director in Paris, the obvious dominant color is white, enhanced by a beautiful parquet floor that brings warmth and sparing touches of black for contrast. Zoé is passionate about beautiful objects that she knows how to marry with taste. She manages to make the periods cohabit in a […]
Projets
October 24, 2022
Dice at Retrofutur
Our Dice vinyl storage cubes at Retrofutur
Since September 2022, our Dice modular concrete vinyl storage cubes have been on display and available at Retrofutur in Lyon (and soon in Paris). Retrofutur is the specialist of acoustic products that you can test in store: connected speakers, sound furniture, portable players, headphones, turntables, amplifiers… Their selection is obviously based on the audio qualities […]
Projets
October 06, 2022
Frag feat. nasty
Nasty works on concrete frames Frag and exhibits at Galerie Brugier Rigail in Paris.
Nasty obviously has loved working on Frag. Just a few weeks after we delivered him a good twenty of our concrete frames Frag, Nasty created a new series of unique and striking works. The artist is exhibited in the Brugier-Rigail gallery in Paris. NASTY – WORKS ON CONCRETE FRAMES FRAG An exhibition to be seen […]
Projets
October 06, 2022
Frag feat. M’Brick & Benn
François Pompon on Frag feat. M’Brick & Benn
François Pompon For the 100th anniversary of the creation of François Pompon’s polar bear, the artist M’Brick, known for his amazing works made with Lego pieces, set himself the challenge of creating 100 paintings representing the famous polar bear. For these collages in the street, the Lego bricks are glued directly on the walls, notably […]
Tips & Tricks
August 26, 2022
Caring for concrete furniture
Our tips for maintaining, cleaning and repairing concrete furniture.
So you’ve got yourself a handsome piece of concrete furniture, and you’re wondering how to care for it. Of course. It’s not every day that you bring a chunk of concrete into the house.At Lyon Béton, we often say that buying a piece of concrete furniture is a commitment.It’s an object that will enter into […]
collections
July 09, 2022
Strut
Strut
Lyon Béton and designer Bertrand Jayr have teamed up once more to bring you Strut, a multi-use table that’s a hybrid of a gueridon and a coffee table. The glass tabletop crosscuts the concrete pedestal, creating a stage for showstopping decorative items and other objets d’art.
Tips & Tricks
July 07, 2022
Dice Hifi
Dice Hifi, our storage furniture for vinyl
When we asked our designer Alexandre Dubreuil to come up with a modular storage system capable of housing our vinyl record collections in other words, a piece of storage furniture for vinyl records,, we couldn’t have imagined the result. He went above and beyond by creating a system featuring two modules, each with an internal […]
Projets
July 05, 2022
DEMATHIEU BARD
Lyon concrete at DEMATHIEU BARD with our TWIST pedestal tables with swivel top
Founded in 1861 in Lorraine, France, DEMATHIEU BARD is today one of the main French players in the construction and real estate development sector. The company is recognized for its technical expertise and its savoir-faire, particularly in the field of complex constructions and engineering structures in France and abroad. In December 2021, DEMATHIEU BARD brings […]
designers
June 29, 2022
Alexandre Dubreuil
Alexandre Dubreuil
Reconsider the interactions between people, spaces and objects.
designers
June 29, 2022
Bertrand Jayr
Bertrand Jayr
“Between art and design, there is only one step.” According to Bertrand Jayr, there is a transversality linking these disciplines that are both distinct and related. It is precisely by transgressing its own limits that Art constantly redefines itself. This is how this artist and designer from Lyon considers these two practices simultaneously. An innovative […]
designers
June 29, 2022
Martin Cuel
Martin Cuel
Designer and creative director. With each of his creations, he looks to offer innovative answers to unsolved problems. His design style is restrained and minimalist, allowing his intentions to shine through. If his designs speak to you, it’s to better start a conversation. With Bak, the sink he designed for Lyon Béton, Martin explores the […]
designers
June 29, 2022
Lyon Béton
Lyon Béton
collections
June 29, 2022
Sharp
Sharp
When we look at a concrete structure, we often forget that it contains metal. Invisible, buried under the cement, it is in fact the metal that gives the building its structure. This symbiosis between cement and metal has been going on clandestinely for over 150 years.
collections
June 29, 2022
Frag
Frag
Since emerging in the 1960s, Urban art has remained one of the most dynamic and beloved formes of popular art. Sixty years later, you think somebody would’ve come up with a way to bring urban art from the street into the home. Alas.à l’intérieur est encore compliqué. That’s why Lyon Béton created FRAG—to give graffiti […]
collections
June 29, 2022
Perspective
Perspective
The perspective collection has a very straight forward design: a concrete layer on top of a steel structure. We chose a raw look & feel but the execution is of a handcrafted finesse that can be seen at first sight. The legs are available in two finishes: transparent matte varnish for a raw style or velvet black epoxy paint for […]
collections
June 29, 2022
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud is more than a storage solution; it’s an installation that brings a little fresh air to the places that need it the most. Designed by artist Bertrand Jayr, this concrete shelf celebrates toilet paper’s unique shape by lifting your spare rolls up off the ground and out from under the sink, cradling your T.P. […]
collections
June 29, 2022
Hauteville
Hauteville
During the tuberculosis epidemic of the nineteenth century, the town of Hauteville in eastern France was home to a number of large sanatoriums dedicated to caring for tuberculosis patients.
collections
June 29, 2022
Twist
Twist
Our twist collection, which consists of a concrete coffee table and a concrete side table, tells the story of a harmonious juxtaposition of form and material, inertia and motion.
collections
June 29, 2022
Donut
Donut
Here at Lyon Béton, when we think of bistro tables, we think of those world-renowned Parisian cafés. Like the Procope, the first rightful Parisian café, where Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and Montesquieu got lost in thought and where, later, Danton, Marat and Robespierre started the French Revolution.
collections
June 29, 2022
Curb
Curb
Gourmets of design love to be surprised by details. Furniture of the Curb collection can’t be taken in with just one glance. Each of their faces is unique and impacts differently the scenography of your interior.
collections
April 29, 2022
Monobloc
Monobloc
This is the monobloc collection, with a minimalist design of a single concrete block for functional use. It will effortlessly enhance your decoration with a touch of raw, industrial and modernist design.
Tips & Tricks
February 05, 2022
DOC, vinyl records storage
DOC, concrete vinyl records storage
The perfect vinyl display rack to isolate a selection of records DOC, concrete vinyl records storage When designer and artist Bertrand Jayr designed the doc inspired by the computer directory icon, it was to make a magazine rack. But like Bertrand, we buy vinyl records more often than magazines and the idea of using it […]
Shooting sessions
April 04, 2021
Bak at l'Arbuissonnière
THE BAK CONCRETE SINK AT L’ARBUISSONNIÈRE
A couple of our friends recently changed their lives to embark on a very respectable adventure: making good wine! Jean and Stéphanie have recently settled in the Beaujolais region in Arbuissonnas, they have named their small wine estate, partly Beaujolais Village and partly Brouilly, l’Arbuissonnière. We let you discover why on their website. At the […]
Shooting sessions
November 02, 2020
Donut at the Commerce
Donut concrete bistro tables at Le Commerce
It’s Wednesday, September 30th, and we’ve got an appointment at Le Commerce, a swanky bar in Lyon’s 7th arrondissement. Those who follow us know, it’s our favorite part of town. Our mission: to photograph our new concrete bistro tables collection. It’s the big day, and at last, we get to unveil Donut, a collection of 3 […]