14 Jan, 2021
L e Chardon is the brand's name ( @maisonlechardon ) and it's the story of 3 french-polish cousins who decided, a couple of years ago to breed alpacas in our family home in Poland to produce duvets with their beautiful wool. Today the estate is full of life. In addition to Charles and Pola, and a few people helping to manage the farm, the estate has three dogs, laying hens, a flock of sheep and ... the most important ones: the alpacas. Charles realised his “agro-dream”, by inventing, with our cousins David de Jouffroy Gonsans and Paul Roitfeld, an exclusive brand of bedding linen in Alpaca wool, the prestigious cousin of the Andean lama. Alpacas graze in the meadows. Once a year they cut their wool, hand clean it, card it, and then quilt it. Then they place it between two panels of organic percale cotton, which are sown together to make quilts. Charles is delighted to have succeeded, under the guise of a luxury product, in selling a purely local and natural product. Alpaca wool is hypoallergenic, so it is suitable even for those who are allergic to sheep wool or goose down. It is a material endowed with thermoregulatory properties. This means that when it's cold, it warms up pleasantly, and when it's hot, the duvet breathes. It's a local product!