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Orfèvre du bain
Workshops, Tools, And Materials
Volevatch factory
Tully, in the Somme region of France, is home to the Volevatch factory. Around fifty craftsmen work mainly with brass in our 1,500 m2 of workshops. However, for certain special orders, they can also handle marble and other fine types of stone.
Alongside its Parisian showroom, Volevatch set up workshops in Tully, in the Somme region, about fifteen kilometers from the coast and the town of Le Tréport. This region has long been home to craftsmen and factories machining brass rods. Here, in our 1,500 m2, the workstations use a combination of milling machines and lathes - both traditionally and digitally controlled - to transform the raw materials, alongside workbenches covered with drills, hammers, and chisels. One of the large drawers in the sculpture studio contains around sixty gouges.
Brass tubes, bars, and ingots
In terms of the raw materials we use, brass is number one. We use brass in all its forms: in tubes, bars, and ingots. White brass is also used for the mechanical parts of the objects we make. Added to this is rubber for water-tight seals, cartridges for faucet heads and their on-off controls, sealant products, flexible piping, and aerators, all sorted and arranged in size order.
Our collections and made-to-measure products
Faucets, washbasins, bathtubs, dressing tables, heated towel rails, mirrors, light fittings, soap dishes, wall hooks etc. We make each item to order, either a model from one of our collections or a bespoke version of them. This sometimes requires the use of specific materials, such as Limoges porcelain or rock crystals to create a washbasin, marble to decorate a cast iron bathtub, enameled lava to embellish a brass dressing table, precious stones to make a faucet handle stand out etc. We offer around twenty surface treatments for our raw polished brass products, including one in 24-carat gold. Our most popular classic treatments are chrome and nickel, in either matt or gloss variants, as well as patina color effects and bronze finishes.
"Positions, heights, overhangs, connectors, or other filtering systems for faucets, everything can be adapted"
The promise made by the craftsmen at the Volevatch workshops in Tully