...Within the town 4000 visitors annually enter the "Conservatoire des Métiers du Bois" (www.sylvea.com). This museum which was instituted in 1996, provides the first opportunity to be initiated. Inside, it is devoted to following the progress of timber from tree to piece of furniture, of an activity with all its sidelines, of which it is an extraordinary shop-window. It is without doubt the best tool to spark the interest in the calling...
When one enters Revel from Toulouse, ranged along the left-hand side are contemporary buildings which house the future specialists of the crafts. The “Lycée des métiers d’Art, du Bois et d’Ameublement” trains the young people of Revel or pupils from elsewhere who, besides having professed a liking for cabinet making or its associated crafts, have demonstrated the qualities required to exercise an art which demands precision, manual dexterity, and artistic taste. All the specialities from furniture to seating are taught there, each one offering a number of different levels of learning and diplomas...

Le meuble d’art contemporain
The XXth Century, with the coming of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, has caused a rupture with the traditional concepts of furniture. Little by little ornamentation has been eliminated for pure shape, itself stamped with functionality. The works of Corbusier or Mallet-Stevens put the seal on this trend. And soon the design will be all-important, often to the detriment of the craft concept of the art of furniture making. Even though in principle against this tendency, Revel can not ignore it.
And since the 1960’s specialists like Robert Dounet have steadily begun to accept the new concepts with the same search for perfection and the same idea that a piece of furniture is unique. Some of his pieces, remarkable and original creations, stand out as a sort of counterpoint to the local fabrications, and at the same time as a symbol of the acceptance by the traditions of Revel to modern society.
It is thus from this viewpoint that one can place the work of a young creator such as Pierre Vorms whose furniture is strictly oriented towards very contemporary aesthetics, with a spatial and even cosmic slant.
In fact René Daïdé himself has been producing for some years, with his son Pierre, a line of contemporary furniture, Day Line, in which the grand master of marquetry demonstrates with shapes and colours a talent for painting and designing which is all his own.