L'Établisienne can be privatized for team-building, training sessions, meetings, product launches, shoots and small receptions, for up to 50 people across three levels. Groups can make something with their hands between two work sessions, or simply use the workshops as an unusual backdrop. The venue is a shared craft workshop at 88 boulevard de Picpus, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, near Nation.
Seminars and company events
The main offer for companies is a group activity built around craft skills. Depending on the time available, the number of people and the budget, the team proposes one or more themes, such as woodwork, leather, rattan and wickerwork or light metalwork, and the group makes either one object each or a single object together. Breakfast or a snack, a work room and a tour of the place can be added. A team-building catalog is available on request.
For events, the building can be booked in whole or in part. Past bookings listed by the venue include privatizing the ground floor by day or evening for photo shoots and filming, a presentation breakfast, a product launch, an exhibition opening and a makers' market. Private events such as birthdays and bachelorette parties are also accepted.
Trainers, training organizations, craftspeople and artists can rent a training room or a workshop for courses and workshops. Workshop rental includes sturdy workbenches and high stools, tools on request, a video projector, a flipchart, high-speed wifi and natural light, and trainers may sell their own products and kits on site.
Rooms and capacities
The venue has two workshops, a small lounge and a snack area, for up to 50 people over three levels. At street level, with direct step-free access, are the clean workshop with workbenches and the Idée-thèque shop, plus accessible toilets. The basement, reached only by stairs, holds the wood workshop and the machine room. On the first floor, reached by a platform lift, are the training room with tables and chairs, a coworking area, a meeting room bookable by the hour and a relaxation corner with a large kitchen. Capacities per room are not published.
Catering
There is no restaurant on site. The team can organize breakfasts, snacks and aperitifs for company events and private parties, and the first floor has a large shared kitchen.
History and setting
The founder, Laurence Sourisseau, trained as a designer and wanted to learn woodwork in 2009. Finding no place in Paris to share tools, space and know-how, she took over a plumber's and roofer's workshop at 88 boulevard de Picpus when its owner retired. L'Établisienne opened in 2011. Today it runs courses and workshops, rents workbenches and desks by the hour, sells makers' objects and second-hand furniture, and hosts private events. The reception and shop are open every day from 10 am to 7 pm.
Getting there
The nearest stations are Nation (metro lines 1, 2, 6 and 9, and RER A) and Picpus (metro line 6). Buses 29 and 56 stop at Picpus; buses 26, 56, 57, 71, 86, 215 and 351 stop at Nation. Several Vélib' stations are close by, and the Vinci Picpus Nation car park, open 24 hours, is opposite at number 96. Cars can stop briefly on the access lane in front of the building to drop off equipment or guests.
