Maison Niche began with a curiosity for the things that stay with us. Art, objects, images and ideas discovered across different places and different times. What started as an instinct to collect and curate became the beginning of something larger.

Every beginning starts with an instinct.

Maison Niche began without a gallery, without a physical space, and without a rulebook. It began simply with looking — finding works that caught our attention and asking why certain things stay with us while others disappear just as quickly.

Somewhere between discovery and curiosity, an idea began to take shape.

Not to define what deserves to be called art. Not to follow what everyone else was already looking at. But to create a place for things we believe are worth discovering.

Works from different periods. Different artists. Different places. Familiar names alongside forgotten ones. The beautiful beside the strange.

That idea became Maison Niche.

We are only at the beginning.

FROM AN IDEA TO
COLLECTION 001

An idea is one thing. Turning it into something real is another.

Collection 001 started with a lot of looking. Through archives, old paintings, drawings and works we came across by chance. There wasn't a checklist for what belonged. If something made us stop, look again, or question why we hadn't seen it before, we kept it close.

Slowly, a collection began to appear.

Some works were immediate. Others took time. Many didn't make it at all. The more we looked, the clearer it became that we weren't searching for pieces that matched. We were searching for works that could stand on their own and still belong together.

Eventually, fifteen remained.

Different artists. Different periods. Different subjects and different ways of seeing. Portraits beside studies of the body. Quiet interiors beside bold figures. Familiar works beside things that felt almost forgotten.

We called the collection Les Trouvailles — The Finds.

The name came naturally. Because that is what the collection became: a record of things we found and decided were worth another look.

Collection 001 isn't meant to define everything Maison Niche will become. The collections that follow may look completely different. That is part of the idea.

This is simply where we chose to begin.

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LES TROUVAILLES

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