This entirely artisanal production employs expertise that is acquired over time within the workshop itself: five years of experience are required to earn the title of "qualified assembler" and a few more years to claim mastery of weaving. The entirely manual production of a chair, an armchair, a stool, a planter, a baby's high chair, a bench seat, a tête-à-tête..., requires a minimum of six hours of work for the simplest model, and up to thirty hours for a more sophisticated piece. The most deserving artisans see their most complex works qualified as "Masterpieces," a well-deserved name.

Our rattan-framed chairs are built around a wooden seat: the frame. These frames are manufactured by top-tier carpenters. Depending on the use and constraints required by the chair or armchair to be produced, these frames are made of beech, or from the best exotic woods such as teak or bankirai, which are even more robust and used particularly for benches. Maison Louis Drucker offers about twenty models of exceptionally robust frames.

Maison Louis Drucker has most of the metal components it uses custom-made to ensure the required quality, including screws and nails, staples...and, of course, the Maison Louis Drucker brass "medal" stamped directly onto the back of each piece of furniture manufactured at Maison Louis Drucker.

Naturally lightly varnished rattan cane has long been used in its raw state. Rattan cane is the outer part, the bark, of rattan that has been peeled to obtain strands. It is curved on one side and flat on the other.
It was from 1920 onwards that rattan took on colours, thanks to the dyeing machines manufactured by the rattan limited company, which created coloured rattan swatches. Drucker was one of the very first companies to exploit this new offer, quickly deploying unparalleled imaginative skill to propose numerous patterns combining several colours. The current range, rich in the weaving models developed since then, is the direct heir to this century of inventiveness.
In the 1950s, coloured, enamelled rattan was replaced by rilsan

Rilsan, a "natural" polyamide, polyamide 11, obtained from castor oil, has replaced natural rattan splint for caning; it is traditionally preferred for outdoor use.

• Remarkably durable flexibility: it does not lose its elasticity, even after many years of intensive use;
• UV resistance. It does not heat up in the sun. Its resistance to insects, termites, fungi, mold;
• Maintenance of its performance over a wide temperature range from -50°C to +70°C;
• Vibrancy and brilliance of color over time;
• Ease of maintenance; Rilsan requires no special maintenance.

Rilsan is a 100% French material, the sole manufacturer of which worldwide is the French company ARKEMA. The Rilsan color chart includes some thirty colors.

Raucord, from the HDPE family, is, on the contrary, satin-finished. It is often preferred for indoor use, although it is perfectly suited for outdoor use and offers comparable resistance to Rilsan over time. Raucord is the alternative chosen primarily for aesthetic considerations in applications where gloss is not desired. Raucord is available in about twenty specific colors.
Raucord is a plastic manufactured by the German company REHAU, a world leader in high-tech plastics.