Luxury Furniture Grasse: Furnishing the Perfume Capital with Casa Padrino

Luxury furniture in Grasse belongs to a town that has always understood craftsmanship. This is the world capital of perfume, a place where scent has been composed for centuries and where the skills of the trade are now listed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. A town that judges a fragrance by its base notes judges a commode by its joinery, and it furnishes accordingly. Casa Padrino, one of the leading international specialists for luxury furniture and high-end interior decoration, delivers to Grasse and across the whole of the Cote d'Azur.

This page begins with the town itself, because Grasse is unlike the coastal resorts below it. It stands on the hillside above Cannes, its old town is tall, narrow and workmanlike, and its finest houses look over rooftops and countryside to a strip of sea on the horizon.

The pieces that succeed here carry that character: painted commodes in the Provencal tradition, cabinets with the height that old town houses demand, mirrors that carry the hill light into deep rooms, and long dining tables for the bastides in the green hinterland.

Luxury furniture Grasse town house salon with elegant seating by Casa Padrino

Grasse: the perfume capital above the sea

Grasse began with leather, not with scent. In the Middle Ages the town lived from tanning, and when perfumed gloves became the fashion of European courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the tanners of Grasse learned to work with fragrance. The gloves eventually disappeared, the perfume stayed, and the town on its hillside became the centre of an industry that still supplies the great houses of the world. The historic perfume factories receive visitors, the International Perfume Museum documents the trade, and in 2018 UNESCO placed the perfume-related skills of the Pays de Grasse on its list of intangible cultural heritage.

The raw material grew, and still grows, in the countryside around the town: jasmine and May rose in the fields below, with the jasmine celebrated in a festival each August. Grasse is also a town of art in its own right. The painter Jean-Honore Fragonard was born here in 1732, and the cathedral of Notre-Dame-du-Puy keeps paintings by Rubens alongside a work by Fragonard himself.

The town is built on a slope, and that shapes everything. The old town stacks tall, narrow houses along contour lines, with arcaded squares like the Place aux Aires cut into the hill. Many of these houses run to four or five floors on a small footprint, with high ceilings on the main floor and long stairs. Above and behind the town, in a hinterland that stays green through the summer, lie the bastides and country estates with their plane trees, walled gardens and rose beds, close enough to Cannes for the coast and far enough for the quiet.

Luxury furniture Grasse Provencal dining room with a long table by Casa Padrino

Why furnishing in Grasse follows its own rules

The first rule is vertical. A Grasse town house distributes its life across floors rather than across a plan, so furniture is chosen floor by floor and carried stair by stair. Tall rooms take tall pieces, and the wardrobe or bookcase that looks oversized in a catalogue photograph often turns out to be exactly right under a four metre ceiling. The staircase, on the other hand, decides what arrives in one piece and what arrives in parts.

The second rule is the light. Grasse faces south over falling ground, which gives the main rooms a long, generous afternoon light, while the rooms towards the hill stay deep and shaded. Mirrors are the classic Grasse answer: a tall mirror on the shadow side of a room borrows the view and the brightness from the window side, and a mirrored front on a cabinet does the same work while storing half a household.

The third rule is the tradition. Provence has painted its furniture for centuries, and Grasse, with its taste formed by workshops and craft, has always been comfortable with colour: soft grey, almond green, chalky white, with mouldings picked out by hand. A painted commode or a lacquered cabinet does not fight the old stone and lime plaster of these houses, it continues them.

Town houses, bastides and the pieces that suit them

In the old town the main floor of a good house carries the salon and the dining room, and it rewards furniture with presence: a marble fireplace flanked by armchairs, a commode under a gilded mirror, a chandelier hung from the full height of the ceiling. Because the footprint is small, storage has to work hard, which is why cabinets and wardrobes with real height are the most useful pieces in the house, on the bedroom floors above as much as in the salon.

The bastides in the hinterland are horizontal where the town is vertical. There the kitchen and the dining room lead, the table is the centre of the household, and a solid dining table of real length, with a full set of upholstered chairs, is the single most important purchase. Sideboards run along the walls, and the shaded terrace under the plane trees is furnished as a second dining room for the warm half of the year.

Between the two stand the villas of the residential quarters, with sea-strip views and gardens of roses and olives. They mix both registers: generous seating and a proper bedroom suite from the town house tradition, garden and terrace furniture in wrought iron and weatherproof weave from the bastide tradition.

The collection: luxury furniture for every room

Our range covers the complete interior, from the entrance hall through to the terrace. Every piece is developed with experienced European manufacturers or selected individually, then checked on material quality before it enters the catalogue. The principle has not changed since the company began: offer furniture that is not found on every street corner.

Luxury sofas in velvet, genuine leather and linen, from Chesterfield to Art Deco
Luxury armchairs and baroque armchairs, including high-back and throne models
Dining tables in solid wood, marble and glass, with matching chairs
Beds with upholstered and carved headboards for master bedrooms and guest suites
Commodes, cabinets and sideboards, from Venetian painted finishes to mirrored fronts
Mirrors in gilded, silvered and antique finishes, up to full wall height
Chandeliers, wall lights and floor lamps in crystal, brass and glass
Garden and terrace furniture, wrought iron and weatherproof materials for the Riviera climate

Luxury furniture Grasse salon with a painted commode by Casa Padrino

Materials and craftsmanship

Solid mahogany, oak and walnut form the structural basis of most of our classical pieces. Carving is done by hand, gilding is applied as leaf rather than sprayed, and upholstery is built up in layers on a solid frame instead of over a moulded shell. Marble is selected as a slab rather than ordered by the square metre, which is why two of our marble tables are never identical.

Painted finishes deserve a special word in Grasse, because the town knows the difference. Ours are built up in layers and rubbed back by hand, so edges and mouldings show the depth that a sprayed finish never achieves. Metalwork runs from polished brass and antique bronze to wrought iron worked in the old way, and glass and crystal components for chandeliers are cut, not pressed. Behind that stands long experience with European workshops in Italy, Spain, Portugal and eastern Europe. Where a project needs something the catalogue does not contain, those same workshops build it.

Luxury furniture in Grasse for hotels, restaurants and project interiors

Grasse receives visitors the whole year round: for the perfume houses and the museum, for the old town, and for the bastide hotels of the hinterland that have become destinations in themselves. Country house hotels, restaurants with terraces under plane trees, spas and event spaces all furnish to an international standard. Casa Padrino equips such interiors across Europe and works regularly with architects, interior design studios and project developers.

A project in Grasse usually means a historic building, a hillside access and a fixed opening date before the summer season. We plan from the access route forwards and from the date backwards, with volume pricing and coordinated deliveries. Our pages for luxury hotel furniture, luxury restaurant furniture and luxury villa furniture set out the process.

Luxury furniture Grasse bedroom with a view over the hills by Casa Padrino

Bespoke production: made to the measure of old houses

A town house from the eighteenth century and a bastide from the nineteenth were not built to standard dimensions, and the furniture that fits them best is not built to standard dimensions either. Bespoke production is a normal part of our work for Grasse: we adjust dimensions, change woods and finishes, work to a specified fabric, and build individual pieces from a drawing.

In practice that means a wardrobe made to the exact height of a tall bedroom, a dining table sized to seat the whole family in a bastide kitchen and delivered with removable legs for the stairs, a commode painted to a chosen tone, or a run of cabinets planned as one composition along a salon wall. Larger projects begin with the plans, continue with material samples, and end with a fixed delivery date.

Delivery to Grasse and the Cote d'Azur

Casa Padrino ships worldwide, and deliveries to Grasse, Mougins, Valbonne, Cannes, Cagnes-sur-Mer and Nice are routine. Larger and heavier pieces travel by freight forwarder with a delivery appointment, smaller items by parcel service. Our page for the Cote d'Azur gives the wider picture of the region we serve.

Delivery is made kerbside to the given address. Carrying items into the building, up the stairs or into the room of use is not part of the standard service. In Grasse that deserves attention, because the old town has narrow one-way streets on a slope and many houses are reached on foot, while the bastides of the hinterland often lie at the end of private lanes. Please arrange help on site in advance, describe the access when you order, and send us the measurements of the staircase before ordering anything large. We would rather raise it before the order than after it.

Because we are an online supplier delivering from stock and from our workshops, we do not operate a showroom in Grasse. What we offer instead is detailed photography, material information, and direct advice by telephone and email before the decision is made.

Luxury furniture Grasse rose garden terrace with outdoor furniture by Casa Padrino

Why Casa Padrino for luxury furniture in Grasse

Casa Padrino has grown into one of the internationally known names for baroque, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and contemporary luxury furniture, with customers in more than fifty countries and a catalogue running into thousands of pieces. In May 2025 the company's designer Marvin Schertl received the International Design Award for Excellence in Luxury Furniture in Cannes, presented during the Beach Ball gala dinner.

For a client in Grasse the practical value is a range wide enough to furnish a whole house from one source, workshops able to build to a measured drawing when the catalogue will not fit, and enough project experience to say plainly when a piece will not make it up the staircase. The full collection is at casa-padrino.de.

Frequently asked questions about luxury furniture in Grasse

Does Casa Padrino deliver luxury furniture to Grasse?
Yes. Grasse and the surrounding communes are regular delivery destinations. Large and heavy items travel by freight forwarder with an appointment, smaller pieces by parcel service. Delivery is kerbside to the address given, so please arrange carrying help, especially in the old town.

Is there a Casa Padrino shop or showroom in Grasse?
No. Casa Padrino sells online and delivers directly, which is what keeps the range this wide. Advice before purchase is given by telephone and email, with detailed photography, dimensions and material information for every piece.

How does delivery work in the old town of Grasse?
The streets are narrow, one-way and on a slope, and many houses are reached on foot. Describe the access when you order, measure the staircase, and arrange help for the carry. Many pieces can be supplied in parts and assembled in the room.

Which furniture suits a tall town house in Grasse?
Pieces that use the height: wardrobes and cabinets of real stature, tall gilded mirrors, a chandelier hung from the full ceiling, and a commode under the mirror in the salon. Storage matters more than in a villa, because the footprint is small.

And a bastide in the hinterland?
The table leads. A long solid wood dining table with a full set of upholstered chairs, sideboards along the walls, generous seating for the salon, and wrought iron furniture for the terrace under the plane trees.

Do you supply painted furniture in the Provencal manner?
Yes. Painted and lacquered commodes, cabinets and bedroom pieces in soft greys, greens and chalky whites are a core part of the collection, finished in layers by hand rather than sprayed.

Does Casa Padrino furnish hotels and restaurants in Grasse?
Yes. Country house hotels, restaurants, spas and event spaces are a core part of our business, planned as projects with volume pricing and coordinated delivery dates, with the access route considered from the first day.

Are bespoke pieces possible?
Yes. Dimensions, woods, finishes and fabrics can be changed, and individual pieces can be built from a drawing. For the tall rooms and old staircases of Grasse this is often the sensible route.

What are the pieces made of?
Solid mahogany, oak and walnut, marble selected by the slab, genuine leather, velvet and linen, polished brass, antique bronze, wrought iron, hand-applied paint and gilding, and cut crystal for lighting.

How does advice for a project in Grasse work?
Send us the rooms, the plans or photographs, the access route and the intended use. You receive a selection with alternatives, material information and a delivery estimate, and for larger projects a written offer covering the whole scheme. Enquiries in English, French and German are all handled directly.