Behind an old grey stone facade dressed up with lanterns at 1476 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, in Montreal’s Museum District just steps from the Musee des Beaux-Arts, TRIANON feels like it belongs to another century entirely. The boutique specializes in French antiques and decorative arts, with a particular focus on period furniture in the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles alongside pieces that lean into a French mid-century modern aesthetic. Beyond furniture, the shop rounds out its offering with fabrics, upholstery services, lamps, candles, and custom decorative work, giving clients a way to build out a full room rather than shop for a single standout piece.
The business was founded in August of 2010 by Luce Gayrard, a Montreal lawyer of French-Quebecois heritage whose longtime passion for French decorative arts eventually became a storefront rather than a hobby. Gayrard has described the shop as a long-cherished dream, and the boutique’s own framing of itself as a corner of France in Montreal captures what she set out to build: a curated slice of eighteenth-century French living transplanted into a historic Montreal streetscape. That personal, founder-driven story gives TRIANON a different character than a typical antique dealer, since the inventory and aesthetic reflect one collector’s specific taste in period French style rather than a broad, catch-all approach to antiques.
Location plays a real role in the shop’s identity. Sitting inside Montreal’s Museum District places TRIANON among a concentration of galleries, cultural institutions, and design-minded foot traffic drawn to the neighborhood around the Musee des Beaux-Arts, making it a natural stop for visitors already spending an afternoon exploring the area’s art and antiques scene. The shop’s own description leans into the atmosphere this setting creates, suggesting that stepping through the door feels like time slowing down, an intentional contrast to the pace of the busy Sherbrooke Street corridor just outside.
Beyond its physical storefront, TRIANON extends its reach through 1stdibs, the international online marketplace for fine antiques and design pieces, letting collectors well outside Montreal browse and acquire pieces sourced by the shop. That online presence, paired with an active Instagram account under the handle boutiquetrianon, means the business maintains visibility with a design-focused audience that may never set foot in the Museum District storefront but still shops the shop’s curated selection of period French furniture and decor. For anyone with questions about a specific piece, custom upholstery, or sourcing a period item, the boutique can be reached by phone at 514-934-0088 or by email.
For Montreal collectors and design enthusiasts drawn to Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture, French mid-century pieces, and the decorative extras that complete a room, from lamps and candles to custom fabric and upholstery work, TRIANON offers a rare, founder-curated antiques boutique in the heart of the Museum District: a genuine corner of French decorative history built into one of Montreal’s most historic commercial blocks.
