Maison Suisse · Est. 1893
For one hundred and thirty years, Maison Montéa has dressed Switzerland's smallest citizens in cloth meant to be folded into a drawer and handed down. Every piece is cut, sewn, and inspected within walking distance of Lac Léman.
"It feels like the cardigan my grandmother kept in tissue paper. Only it's new."
— Vogue Enfants, Paris
Le Vestiaire
Vevey · 1893
Élise Montéa opened a single-window atelier on the Quai Perdonnet in the autumn of 1893, sewing christening gowns for the families of Vevey by lamplight. The shop is still there. So is the lamp.
Five generations later, we still stitch, still inspect, still fold by hand. The looms have moved twice. The standard has not.
Read the chronicle →Maison Edition · Spring
Maison Edition №1Newborn · 0–12 months
Le Bodysuit Essentiel
CHF 68
Heritage SeriesNursery & Bath · Birth onward
La Couverture Alpenwool
CHF 240
Nursery & Bath · 0–24 months
Trio de Langes Soleil
CHF 54
Nursery & Bath · 0–3 years
La Cape de Bain Edelweiss
CHF 96
Limited · 80 piecesNewborn · 3–18 months
Le Cardigan Fougère
CHF 184
Toddler · 12 months – 3 years
La Robe Primevère
CHF 128
I.
GOTS-certified organic cotton, single-origin merino from the Bernese Oberland, garment-washed European linen. We refuse synthetics, even when they would be easier.
II.
Every Montéa piece passes under at least four pairs of hands before it reaches you — cutter, seamstress, finisher, inspector. We are 38 people, all paid above the Swiss living wage.
III.
Cut a generous seam allowance. Sew with a longer stitch. Reinforce the gusset. Date the label. We build clothes the way our great-grandmothers built them: assuming they will be opened in a drawer thirty years from now.
"We dress them for an afternoon. Montéa dresses them for the photograph their grandchildren will frame."
— The Atelier Journal, No. 14
