From wood shaving to gold leaf
House of fine cabinetmaking·Switzerland
“I don't impose a beauty. I reveal yours.”
02What I believe
A made-to-measure interior doesn't fill a need. It moves something within: assurance, calm, the feeling of being, at last, exactly where you belong.
“I don't impose a beauty. I reveal yours.”
03The craftsman
Twenty years of listening to wood before bending it. Michaël Joyeux draws, selects the material, assembles, and signs every piece with the only guarantee that matters: his hand.
Michaël Joyeux · Cernier (NE) · some twenty years at the bench
Gold leaf
Shagreen
Selenite
Straw, strand by strand04The materials, the encounter
“Set wood against mother-of-pearl, shagreen, an exceptional leather, selenite, or even straw, and both are elevated. Neither crushes its neighbour. Each raises the other.”
Professional spacesBanking · Hospitality · Private practices
When a client pushes open your door, when a partner sits down at your table, something is decided before the first word: what your premises say about you. The right material, a flawless finish, a presence that commands respect without raising its voice. Eben&Or shapes the spaces that speak for institutions that cannot afford the approximate.
Your walls receive your clients before you do. Make them your finest ambassador.
Boardroom · single-slab solid walnut top
Three worldsOne same standard
A client entrusts their wealth to what they perceive as solid. Panelling, counters, reception halls: every surface must whisper permanence. We shape interiors that cross the decades without yielding an inch, because trust is not renegotiated every season.
A guest remembers what they felt, never what they were told. Reception, suites, shared spaces: we create the rooms people remember, the ones that turn a stay into a story. Luxury is not declared, it is felt through the fingertips.
Doctor, lawyer, notary: people entrust you with the intimate, the grave, the confidential. Your practice must deserve it from the waiting room onwards. We design spaces that soothe and reassure, where care can be read in the material before it is spoken in words.
What we know how to do
From the complete fit-out of a reception space to the centrepiece of a boardroom, we work where exacting standards tolerate no compromise. Every professional project is led like an exceptional commission.
No catalogue. Every space is studied for what it represents and for those it receives.
Noble woods, artistic finishes: made to age with prestige, not to be replaced.
Your business does not pause. A calendar agreed is a calendar respected.
A project for your establishment?
Let's talk about what your premises should say about you.
The bench · the hand that executes
ArchitectsInterior architects · Decorators
To recommend a workshop is to lend your reputation. To entrust the execution of your drawings is to trust a hand you do not hold. Eben&Or works with specifiers like with no one else: with discretion, exacting finish, and absolute respect for your client relationship. Your name binds us as much as our own.
Your signature and ours, on the same project. We never forget it.
Two ways of working together
You direct your client to us and step back. We receive them with the care you would give them yourself, and you stay informed at every milestone. The client relationship remains yours; we exist only through your recommendation.
You remain the lead designer, we become your hand of exception. Straw marquetry, leather sheathing, gold leaf, selenite: when your vision calls for materials few still master, we render them true, faithful to your intention. You stay in front of your client; we work in your shadow.
Why us
Twenty years of workshop have taught Michaël's hands one thing: you do not disappoint a fellow professional. A drawing is read like a score, an intention is respected before it is discussed, a finish holds to the last millimetre. It is precisely there, on the ground of the very standards you yourself impose, that we become a partner and not a subcontractor.
The finest projects are born when two hands find their accord.
Architect, decorator, specifier?
Recommend a client, or let's begin a collaboration.
Selected workA selection
Not a catalogue: a series of unique pieces, each born of a place, a material and an intention that belonged to one client alone.
In their words
We had asked you for a cloakroom cabinet. You brought us far more: a concept, an entire project.
You delivered a bedroom we no longer want to leave. I did not know a place could do that.
I entrusted Eben&Or with a client I would have entrusted to no one else. He thanked me as if the project had been my own.
Begin the experience
Whatever your project, it begins with a conversation. Choose the door that feels like you.
A home, a room, a piece that is unmistakably you. Let's give shape to what you are looking for.
Begin the experience →A bank, a hotel, a practice: a space that speaks for you before the first word.
Describe a professional project →Architect, decorator: recommend a client or let's collaborate on a project.
Get in touch →“I don't impose a beauty. I reveal yours.”
The first exchange
No commitment, no file to assemble. Simply a conversation, to understand what you are looking for and to see whether our hands are the right ones.
The first exchange
Tell us what you are looking for and how to reach you. Michaël will contact you personally to agree on the moment.
House of fine cabinetmaking · Switzerland
A few words are enough. Michaël replies to you personally, within 48 hours.
Thank you. Michaël will come back to you very soon, personally.
