Interior design: the craze for industrial furniture | M6 | 66 minutes

It’s a story of a rusty old changing room locker that would formerly have been heading for the dump. Today, with a little restoration, it can fetch 1500 Euros! The same goes for obsolete metal stools that fans are prepared to buy at 700 Euros each. This fashion for industrial furniture in interior design delights Stephanie and Yvan, a couple of second-hand dealers. They specialise in such furniture, which they hunt down in the sheds of abandoned factories and restore. Such is the infatuation that certain models of chair or workshop lamp have become “collector’s items” to the point of being copied. How do you avoid being had?