About …
After 36 exciting years as an automotive engineer in a large French group, I finally decided to turn a page and let another devouring passion express itself : woodworking!
Supported by a loving wife who is like me, amateur of beautiful objects and manual work guided by a search for simplicity and beauty of shapes but also encouraged by my five children and grandchildren, I decided to create Boisées Matières, a small structure intended to give a more concrete frame to my passion.
My name is Olivier Soulié, I am now over my sixties and as far back as I can remember, woodworking aroused in me a great interest that quickly turned into a passion.
This is how I created Boisées Matières and this site whose purpose is to share, some of my woodworking joys but also sometimes its difficultiess as well as to market some objects coming from this love of woodworking.
My taste for manual woodworking and simple shapes (not necessarily the easiest to make!) was reinforced by the rigor of my training in automotive engineering and in particular with regard to the great care that must be given to the product/process pair (the material and its properties, the manufacturing processes to work with it and its design).
Regarding this site:
This is my own creation, which explains the clumsiness of realization even if it is not a valid excuse; but not being a professional web designer, I thank the readers who land here for being patient about that (and also about some clumsiness or errors in my English writing). I just hope that the content will overcome a presentation that certainly leaves something to be desired! All your suggestions will be very welcome. Please, write to me at contact@boiseesmatieres.com.
And now, back to the workshop …