Nantes. It’s a story that began 98 years ago, when George Julio-René, future husband of Miss Andrée Jardin, began making brushes, handing down his skills from generation to generation up to his grandchildren. After the gold age of plastic, they decided to revive the family business offering to a careful and demanding consumer some products pretty difficult to find in the market, as a real broom or reliable and durable brush. So, in 2010 was born the brand Andrée Jardin, which achieves excellent French beechwood brushes as well as a wide range of high quality and everlasting products. The company’s mission is precisely to provide tools for the thorough cleaning of the things we care about, using a brush as a manifesto of French know-how. They propose three collections: the Tradition Collection, characterized by pure and simple elegance, where the woods used are beech, natural or painted, while the bristles are black or white; the Vintage 1950 Collection, a line with the typical post-war modernist colors; the Design by Mr & Mrs Clynk Collection, which relies on the designers couple the delicate task of combining modernity and tradition, offering brooms, brushes and cramb trays equipped with a magnet to put them on display on a wall panel. 2014 also brought some news, like the brush for the office Pukka, a precious result of a collaboration with the talented young French Amaury Poudray. Another interesting innovation this year is the Epoussette Box + Crumb Trays Design by Mr & Mrs Clynk, a brush with dustpan in carefully chosen colors, with a compact and functional design.