Journal
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
Spatial poetry and advanced building science to bring back the childhood memories of the inhabitants.
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 […]
collab
May 22, 2023
The opening, at Sofffa
Neo Beton Exhibition
A look back at the opening night of the NÉO BÉTON EXHIBITION. This exhibition mounted in partnership with Sofffa honors artists who have worked on our concrete supports in the line of abstraction, geometry and optical art while creating a bridge between the aestheticism of graffiti and contemporary abstract art. It was a bit crowded […]
Projets
January 06, 2023
Our most impressive installation of modular concrete cubes so far
Dice 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
The Curb concrete coffee table pictured at Studio Evol
Curb coffee table at 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. And while we were at it, we also brought another piece of furniture from the same designer: the Curb concrete coffee table. […]
Shooting sessions
January 02, 2023
Our Strut concrete coffee tables proudly stand in front of a cemetery
Strut coffee tables at Grange Berchet
There’s nothing like a dull winter sky to take pictures in front of a cemetery. 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 of Grange Berchet. The choice […]
Projets
November 09, 2022
The People opens a new address in Paris. Guess who equipped the toilets?
Small clouds in the Marais, Paris
Après Bercy, Nation et Belleville, c’est dans le Marais que The People ouvre son quatrième établissement hybride parisien qui brouille les frontières entre hôtel, auberge de jeunesse, bar et restaurant. 400 lits répartis en dortoirs, chambres doubles et chambres familles. complété par un bar, restaurant à la future programmation festive sur 700 m² : le […]
Projets
October 24, 2022
Our Dice concrete cubes in a beautifully streamlined environment.
Dice at Zoe
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 […]
collections
October 19, 2022
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Projets
October 06, 2022
François Pompon's polar bear in Lego bricks on a concrete frame Frag by M'Brick, enhanced by Benn.
François Pompon on Frag feat. M’Brick & Benn
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 on the […]
Tips & Tricks
August 26, 2022
Tips on caring for, cleaning, and repairing concrete furniture.
Caring for 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
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, the ultimate storage solution for hi-fi sound systems and LPs.
Dice Hifi
When we asked our designer Alexandre Dubreuil to come up with a modular storage system capable of housing our vinyl record collections, we couldn’t have imagined the result. He went above and beyond by creating a system featuring two modules, each with an internal height of 32 cm (12.5”, perfect for storing our precious LPs). […]
collections
July 02, 2022
Dice
Designed with care by Alexandre Dubreuil, DICE lets you create custom concrete home furnishings as easily as if you were stacking Lego bricks (big Lego bricks).
designers
June 29, 2022
Alexandre Dubreuil
Alexandre Dubreuil’s global experience, from the design of industrial objects to interior architecture for permanent spaces or events, leads him to reconsider the interactions between people, spaces and objects. He strives to purify these interactions by proposing objects that speak for themselves. The usage is intuitive and the form obvious for a quest of the […]
designers
June 29, 2022
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
Henri Lavallard Boget
designers
June 29, 2022
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 […]
collections
June 29, 2022
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. With the Sharp table, the designer Bertrand Jayr dismantles […]
collections
June 29, 2022
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
Sliced
You’ve carefully curated you’re interior decor. Don’t ruin it with ho-hum shelves. So long, ugly brackets The beauty of sliced concrete shelves comes from its simplicity: a well-proportioned cuboid made of raw material that speaks for itself. We didn’t want to spoil that simple design with brackets, so we put our heads together and came […]
collections
June 29, 2022
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
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
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
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.
Tips & Tricks
June 05, 2022
The concrete side table with a rotating top that will follow you everywhere.
Your lounge chair sidekick
The concrete side table with a rotating top that will follow you everywhere You already know that the coffee table and side table from the twist collection with their metal swivel tops are the perfect companions for your sofa. You may not know that the gueridon is perfectly suited for outdoor use too. It becomes […]
collections
April 29, 2022
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, concrete vinyl records storage
The perfect vinyl display rack to isolate a selection of records 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 as a LP record rack […]
