L’AGENCE Interior Design designs and commissions custom fitted furniture in Cannes: dressing rooms, libraries, kitchens, bathroom furniture, glass partitions, screens and headboards. Each piece is designed for its wall, its volume and its use, crafted by carpentry workshops consulted for the project, and installed under our supervision.
What the fitted furniture commission includes
Everything begins with a precise survey of the space, to the millimeter, because custom furniture does not forgive an approximate measurement. Then comes the design: elevations, detailed plans, choice of wood veneers and finishes, integration of backlighting, hardware, niche ventilation, load-bearing capacity.
The execution drawings are sent to carpentry workshops, which quote based on these documents. We analyze the estimates with you, monitor the fabrication, coordinate the installation and oversee the final adjustments: door clearances, alignments, operation of integrated lighting.
Custom work is not limited to storage. Designed cornices, integrated desks, television units, exploited under-stair spaces, glass partitions, one-of-a-kind furniture pieces. It is this level of finish, polished, completed to the millimeter, that distinguishes an elevated interior from a simply furnished interior.
What fitted furniture does not include
Fitted furniture does not manage a renovation project. If the project requires moving partitions or reworking systems, it first falls under interior layout or comprehensive renovation: fitted furniture comes afterward, once the volumes are established and the walls finished.
Similarly, the overall styling of the space—colors, textiles, designer furniture, decorative lighting—falls under interior decoration. The order matters: custom furniture designed before the floor plan is finalized is furniture that needs to be redesigned.
Our delivered fitted furniture projects
Romana
Romana, in Cannes: in this 90 m² villa ground floor reimagined with Parisian codes, the Art Deco-inspired glass partition and all the furniture were custom designed and specially crafted to integrate with the space. The beams were concealed within arches and the cornices and moldings redesigned to maintain the Parisian register throughout.
Victoria
Victoria, rue d’Antibes in Cannes: in 70 m² created by combining two apartments, the fitted furniture carries the entire project. Full-height pivot doors to emphasize the volumes, cornices highlighted with subtle lighting, furniture entirely designed by the firm.
California
California, in Mougins: in this 240 m² villa, the furniture was entirely custom designed, particularly to showcase decorative objects inherited by the clients. A case where custom work serves not to fill a wall but to give proper place to what already existed.
Why have your fitted furniture designed by an interior architect?
A fitter fabricates furniture. An interior architect conceives it within the project of the space. The difference is visible in three places, and it remains visible for a long time.
Proportions first, considered with the room, its heights and existing lines, not selected from a configurator. Materials next, chosen in harmony with the rest of the interior, the floors, the joinery, the natural light. Technical details finally—backlighting, niche ventilation, load-bearing capacity, panel thicknesses—resolved on plan before fabrication rather than discovered during installation.
The firm operates under ten-year liability insurance and professional liability insurance. The exact scope of coverage applicable to your project is specified upon contract, with supporting certificates.
Fitted furniture in Cannes: what the built environment requires
In the bourgeois buildings of the center, generous ceiling heights call for full-height joinery, but narrow stairwells require designing in transportable modules. In the residences of La Croisette, the large volumes and curved walls of certain 1960s and 1970s constructions require pieces fabricated to template rather than in series.
And in the villas of the heights, the split levels and sloped ceilings are precisely the terrain where custom work recovers surface area that nothing else can recover. Outside Cannes, the exercise changes constraints: our page dedicated to custom fitted furniture in Saint-Tropez details the fabrication schedule imposed by the season and the question of transporting modules in the old town.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of furniture do you create custom in Cannes?
Dressing rooms, libraries, kitchens, bathroom furniture, television units, integrated desks, screens, headboards, glass partitions, and any piece designed for an atypical volume: sloped ceiling, under-stair space, alcove, curved wall.
What is the timeframe between design and installation?
It depends on the complexity of the pieces, the selected finishes and the workload of the workshops, which is often the critical path of a project. The schedule is established upon validation of the execution drawings, and we monitor the fabrication through to installation.
Can we commission you for a single piece of furniture?
Yes, provided the piece justifies design work: an atypical volume, a technical constraint, integration with existing construction. For standard furniture in a standard volume, a joiner consulted directly will do the work very well and will cost you less. We prefer to say so.
Does custom furniture cost more than designer furniture?
Not systematically, and the comparison is not in the right place. In an atypical volume, custom work exploits surface area that standard furniture leaves wasted, and that surface area has a price per square meter. Pricing is done piece by piece based on plans, which allows precisely for decision-making before ordering.
Can lighting be integrated into custom furniture?
Yes, and this is decided during design, not afterward. Backlighting, niche lighting and under-shelf strips require planned power supplies, sufficient thicknesses and sometimes ventilation. It is the kind of detail that distinguishes well-designed furniture from well-fabricated furniture.
