History Meets High Tech

With buyers shopping online during the pandemic, Country French Interiors is reaching antiques lovers near and far

Article by Leslie J. Thompson / photography by HOLGER OBENAUS

Country French Interiors was recently featured in Dallas Style & Design Magazine.

https://dsdmag.com/history-meets-high-tech/

The web, as in world wide webwas not even a thing when Bruno de la Croix-Vaubois opened the doors to Country French Interiors in 1986. Customers came in person to the 9,000-square-foot Slocum Street showroom to peruse the vast selection of antique 18th- and 19th-century fine European furnishings, Aubusson tapestries and objets d’art in search of unique pieces for their home interiors. Today, de la Croix-Vaubois still happily shows visitors around his showroom but, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, most buyers are viewing the inventory on the web—and business is booming.

“We were worried about not making it through the pandemic,” admits de la Croix-Vaubois, who says the first two months under the governor’s executive order to close nonessential businesses last year were difficult. “So, we kept adding more and more inventory online.” And sales ramped right back up.

Read the full article here: https://dsdmag.com/history-meets-high-tech/