— MAKER · FR —
Forêt
Hand-turned French walnut, guaranteed for life.
Jura, France · Founded 2011
Jura, France · est. 2011
Forêt is the workshop of Henri and Léa Marchetti, a father-daughter wood-turning operation in the village of Champagnole, deep in the French Jura. They use only Jura walnut — felled by FSC-certified foresters within thirty kilometres of the workshop, then air-dried in their own loft for three years before turning. Every grinder is signed and numbered. Forêt's lifetime guarantee is honoured by Léa personally; she has restored grinders that her father turned in 2011.
— THE PROCESS —
How it actually gets made.
The drying loft. Three years before any wood touches a lathe.
Henri turning. Fifty years of practice in one cut.
Léa carving the leaf. By hand, one lid at a time.
Linseed-oil finish. Three coats, twenty-four hours apart.
Numbering and signing. Every piece, in graphite.
— SOURCING STANDARD —
Every test, passed.
Certifications held
FSC · PEFC (forest origin) · Artisan de France
Last NATURAGROW visit
November 2025
Next scheduled
November 2026
Audited by NATURAGROW · Annual founder interview on file · All 7 Sourcing Standard tests verified
Read the full Sourcing Standard →“Wood remembers. A grinder you keep for thirty years gets better. Plastic forgets you the day you buy it.”
— Henri Marchetti
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