La Maison du Pastel

“After Dr Henri Roché’s death in 1948, generations of skills and manufacturing secrets are carefully maintained by his wife and daughters, who work together at perpetuating the family tradition, keeping close to the artists’ desires in order to provide them with a high quality material. When Mrs Henri Roché dies in 1975, her eldest daughter Huberte Roché takes the head of “La Maison du Pastel”, helped by her two sisters, until November 1999, when she dies at the age of 85.”

“In February 2000, the two sisters,Denise and Gisèle Roché, aged 80 years old, decide to transfer their skills to their great cousin Isabelle Roché, a young engineer. Fascinated by the history of “La Maison du Pastel” and impressed by the variety of its colours, she is since then dedicating all her energy to the conservation of this wonderful national and family heritage.”

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