Tolix Marais A Dining Chair

12 May.,2025

 

We're a small sustainable, family run company based in northern California.  We travel the world to bring you beautiful, mostly vintage things and a lot of inspiration for your home.

When we founded our company, we envisioned a small business with a human touch:  each beautiful item selected by hand, each order carefully packed by someone who cares, each call and email personally answered by someone who can help, and most of all, each customer treated like a dear friend.  And we were committed to giving a little back in the form of support to other small businesses like us, and donations to causes that tug at our heartstrings.

We believe that not making something new is the greenest thing of all, that a small business can make a big difference, that the human touch is a powerful thing, and that working side by side with your family is a really nice way to spend your day.  

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Occasionally we will earn a commission for products that we recommend on our blog.  Our opinions are always our own, and we never recommend a product or service we do not use ourselves.  

What we sell

We travel the world in search of ideas, inspiration, and beautiful vintage and hand crafted products for your home and your life from France, Morocco, Belgium and the United States.  

Shop our collection of furniture including

vintage furniture

reclaimed wood furniture

cabinets, armoires and buffets

dining tables, farm tables and islands

dining chairs

benches and stools

coffee tables, side tables and console tables

upholstered sofas, couches, loveseats, chairs, chaises and ottomans.

accent furniture such as bistro tables, small dressers, coat racks and bars. 

Shop our collection of things for your French kitchen including

bread boards

cookware and kitchen tools, canning jars

vintage and re-tinned copper pots, pans, stock pots and pitchers

vintage and hand made plates and bowls

vintage flatware : forks, knives, spoons, carving knives and forks, spreaders and special silver pieces

vintage glassware : vintage champagne coupes and flutes for toasting,  vintage wine glasses, lovely moroccan tea glasses and unique vintage bar glasses and decanters

table linens:  vintage napkins, vintage kitchen towels, linen aprons, and pretty silver napkin rings.

serving platters and bowls, pitchers, tureens, gravy boats and trays

stoneware crocks, vases, pitchers and bowls

vintage silver: silver flatware, champagne buckets, trays and bar tools

Shop our collection of decor including:

art, travel and design books, cookbooks, vintage books

candles and candlesticks

vases and vessels for flowers

lamps, pendants and chandeliers

coat racks, coat hooks, baskets and totes

garden items

vintage mirrors

beautiful decorative accessories

Shop our collection of textiles including:

washed linen sheets, duvets and pillowcases and bed covers

vintage sheets

items for the bath : towels, bath mats, soap dishes, towel racks and hooks, soap, candles, mirrors, trays, stools.

pillows and throws

table linens:  vintage napkins, vintage kitchen towels, linen aprons, and pretty silver napkin rings.

vintage rugs

Shop our collection of vintage art including:

vintage etchings, sketches and drawings

vintage oil paintings 

photography and prints

pressed botanical specimens

sculpture, busts and hand made ceramics

watercolor paintings

We don't mean to brag, but our collection of vintage & custom furniture as well as lovely decor has made us a stylist and designer favorite.  Whether you need one signature piece, or a layer of decor for the final mile, our special pieces can help bring your project to life. 

When you join our designer program, you'll receive

15% trade discount 

Tax exempt purchasing with resale permit

Support from our Designer Liaison

Private shopping by appointment for you & your client

48 hour approval period 

Opportunity to pre-shop new containers

Contact us today with your business license, address telephone and email to get started. 

Terms

Registered designers are entitled to receive a 15% discount on all regular priced merchandise listed on our website, or available in our SF area showroom and annex.    

 We do not combine discounts or promotions, so if shipping is required, we will advise which is  most advantageous for you:  15% trade discount or free shipping promotion. 

You will note that a small number of  items are listed as "local pick up only.."  Those items are not eligible for our free shipping promotion. 

What we sell

We travel the world in search of ideas, inspiration, and beautiful vintage and hand crafted products for your home and your life from France, Morocco, Belgium and the United States.  

Shop our collection of furniture including

vintage furniture

reclaimed wood furniture

cabinets, armoires and buffets

dining tables, farm tables and islands

dining chairs

benches and stools

coffee tables, side tables and console tables

upholstered sofas, couches, loveseats, chairs, chaises and ottomans.

accent furniture such as bistro tables, small dressers, coat racks and bars. 

Shop our collection of things for your French kitchen including

bread boards

cookware and kitchen tools, canning jars

vintage and re-tinned copper pots, pans, stock pots and pitchers

vintage and hand made plates and bowls

vintage flatware : forks, knives, spoons, carving knives and forks, spreaders and special silver pieces

vintage glassware : vintage champagne coupes and flutes for toasting,  vintage wine glasses, lovely moroccan tea glasses and unique vintage bar glasses and decanters

table linens:  vintage napkins, vintage kitchen towels, linen aprons, and pretty silver napkin rings.

serving platters and bowls, pitchers, tureens, gravy boats and trays

stoneware crocks, vases, pitchers and bowls

vintage silver: silver flatware, champagne buckets, trays and bar tools

Shop our collection of decor including:

art, travel and design books, cookbooks, vintage books

candles and candlesticks

vases and vessels for flowers

lamps, pendants and chandeliers

coat racks, coat hooks, baskets and totes

garden items

vintage mirrors

beautiful decorative accessories

Shop our collection of textiles including:

washed linen sheets, duvets and pillowcases and bed covers

vintage sheets

items for the bath : towels, bath mats, soap dishes, towel racks and hooks, soap, candles, mirrors, trays, stools.

pillows and throws

table linens:  vintage napkins, vintage kitchen towels, linen aprons, and pretty silver napkin rings.

vintage rugs

Shop our collection of vintage art including:

vintage etchings, sketches and drawings

vintage oil paintings 

photography and prints

pressed botanical specimens

sculpture, busts and hand made ceramics

watercolor paintings

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Now that you've decided to invest in a new piece of furniture, let's make sure it fits perfectly in your room.  

Follow a  general rule of allowing 36" of traffic pattern around an arrangement of furniture for traffic flow.  

Dining Tables 

If you are looking to sit a certain number of people at your table, the size of your chairs is as important as the size of the table.  Generally, allow about 20" of length per person (about the width of a placement).  

A trestle base will give you more flexibility than four legs to seat more people along each side of the table.  

Cabinets

Consider the size of the doors when placing furniture adjacent to a cabinet with doors.  You'll want to be able to completely open the cabinet doors without bumping into a nearby piece of furniture.  


If your cabinet has to be turned on its side to be carried through a standard door into your room, make sure it will clear the ceiling when it's placed upright.   To calculate the diagonal measurement of the cabinet, dust off the Pythagorean Theorem:  height of the cabinet squared + width of the cabinet squared = diagonal measurement of the cabinet squared.  If the square root of the diagonal measurement is less that your ceiling height, then you're good.  If it is more, then the cabinet will not fit into your room unless it is made in two pieces. 

Coffee Tables

For coffee tables, rules are made to be broken, but these three rules should give you some structure to work with:  generally speaking, you'll want your coffee table to be roughly the height of your sofa deck (about 20"), roughly 18" from the sofa, and approx. 2/3 the width of the sofa.  

As always, if you have questions just contact us.  We can help.  

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