What the press says, autumn 2026

The October issue has been published in digital form for subscribers. It reaches newsstands in the coming days. Article by Agnès Zamboni, page 15.

The back-to-school special issue of ELLE Intérieurs, “Le guide déco de la rentrée”, opens on the strong trends of the season: “Colourful, committed, surprising… This season’s proposals refine the contours of beauty, and sometimes redefine them.”

The tenth of these trends, “Fun, on joue !”, gathers on page 17 the freest proposals of the moment, from the Hall Haus collective’s iron chairs for Monoprix to Ekhi Busquet’s glazed ceramics. The editors place two of the house’s pieces there:

“The pick of this wave of fun? The Madame Taconeo bench and its Zhuangzi stool in ash, from the furniture house B.fabers, which seem to pirouette with audacity.”

A trends page keeps only the pieces. These are drawn by Huub Ubbens, developed with Gilles Malhaize and crafted by Gaëtan Gesserand, in local solid ash, assembled without screws.

Special issue no. 75, on newsstands since 17 September 2026. Selection by J.-C. C. and C. B. R.

Under the title “Célébrer le bois massif”, the review of the métiers d’art returns on page 16 to the birth of the house:

“Last year, Tristan Dubois founded B.fabers, a new collectible furniture house bringing designers and artisans together around locally sourced solid wood, made to order. The first collection, imagined by the Dutch designer Huub Ubbens, offers five essential, lasting pieces with sculptural forms.”

The review then turns to what sets each piece apart:

“Each one tells its own story: the Zhuangzi stool draws on Taoist philosophy. The Séléné table, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, evokes the lunar cycles, with its decorative elements set at each corner, in quarter and half shells.”

The text is illustrated by a detail of the Héraclite writing desk, Frêne Olivier - Variations claires finish, showing the assembly of the rail and the leg.

Geste/s, a review of the métiers d’art, craftsmanship, design and contemporary art. Issue 19, “Odyssée merveilles”, autumn 2026.

Among the editors’ favourites, page 19, the Zhuangzi stool in Frêne - Rouge lumière, under the title “Heureux sage”, the happy sage:

“The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, who gave this stool its name, held that to live free of cares one should stay low and keep out of sight. So let us sit close to the ground!”

The editors publish the piece with its dimensions and price: w. 35 × d. 27 × h. 32 cm, €620, design Huub Ubbens. The stool is crafted in solid ash, assembled without screws, and comes in the full range of the collection’s finishes.

ELLE Décoration, issue 336, September 2026.

Le Point devotes an investigation to those family names that fit the profession too closely for coincidence to be quite believable, from Benjamin Millepied to the Lumière brothers. Its final section turns to Tristan Dubois, who left human resources management, notably at Lacoste and Longchamp, to found B.fabers.

Wood, in this affair, he thought he had chosen out of taste. That was to forget that his family name already carried this path within it.

Asked about the connection, he first said no. Then he went and put the question to his father, an amateur genealogist. The answer came without delay:

You think we’re called Dubois for nothing?

There follows the list of forebears: since 1640, clog makers, charcoal burners, pit sawyers and sergents du bois, the old name for forest wardens. What remained was to understand how such a thing is handed down. The article traces it back to childhood, at his grandparents’ house, to the trees in the garden and the conversations about wood species.

Wood seeped in, without the rational part of my brain imagining it was part of my inheritance.

“Aptonymes : notre nom de famille choisit-il notre carrière à notre place ?”, by Romane Ganneval, Vie au travail section, Le Point, 21 September 2026.