NV Gallery: ten years, seven hundred square metres, and a question of price
Founded in 2016 by Natalie Hanczewski and Thibaut Saguet to make contemporary furniture accessible. The rue d'Argout flagship runs to 700 m². What "accessible" actually means.
2 MIN · 1 OBJECT IDENTIFIEDTen years is short for a furniture house. It is long enough to know whether the style holds — and for the question of price to become interesting.
A house born of an observation
NV Gallery was founded in Paris in 2016 by Natalie Hanczewski and Thibaut Saguet. The starting point is a very concrete problem, one we meet every day in our readers' scans: well-drawn contemporary furniture is expensive, and affordable furniture is rarely well drawn. The brand was built in that gap.
The flagship on rue d'Argout, in the place des Victoires neighbourhood, runs to seven hundred square metres — a department-store footprint for a ten-year-old house, which says a great deal about the speed at which this segment has grown.
What "accessible" covers
It is the most slippery word in furniture, and it deserves a pause, because this is exactly the ground on which our readers ask themselves questions. An accessible price can come from three very different places: a production volume that spreads the cost of the tooling; a short chain that removes the middlemen; or a saving made on the material and on the labour.
All three produce the same figure in the window and not at all the same object ten years on. That is why, on this segment more than any other, you have to read the spec sheet: the species of wood rather than "wood", the density of the foam, the nature of the veneer, the origin of the manufacture. These are details that houses either give or withhold, and that difference alone is already an answer.
Why it interests us
Because it is the price bracket where our tool is most useful. On a piece from a historic maker, the question is binary: it is the authorised edition or it is not. On accessible contemporary furniture there is no binary answer — there is a ratio between what you pay and what you get, and it can be compared. That is precisely what we do when we show several prices side by side instead of a single one.
Getting there
NV Gallery — flagship, 5 rue d'Argout, 75002 Paris, place des Victoires neighbourhood. During Paris Design Week.
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