Les Jolies Planches

Embrace the trend for slow living

Seeking to rediscover real life and to share their knowledge, Les Jolies Planches wanted to recreate beautiful educational posters for children. These canvas prints are both elegant and functional, giving a traditional form of decoration a modern twist. They delicately and playfully introduce knowledge and its transmission, creating a bond between those who look at them. These posters answer the question of how to style a room, how to decorate the walls and not only decorate it but bring on it a character, a personality! Les Jolies planches brings a touch from the past to today, with their educational posters, which can teach not only the kids, but also the adults.

So, what is Les Jolies planches? First answer would be that it is art, second education and third decoration. These three words included in a poster from cotton canvases, painted with designs and colors from environmentally friendly inks. The canvas prints are designed and made in France from talented illustrators providing unique French expertise.

At the peak of a successful career within the Management Committee of a large international group and after 20 years working in the media and telecoms industry, Isabelle Diacono, founder of Les Jolies Planches, decided to slow things down and relearn the art of observation and wonder. An expert in digital innovation and transformation, she gave it all up to focus on her start-up idea which was perfectly in tune with her philosophy on life and work.

Les Jolies Planches came into being in 2017. She left the virtual world behind her to return to reality and emotion: the velvet touch of cotton canvases, the vibrant colours of environmentally-friendly inks…and the end-to-end design of posters focusing on creative, exciting themes which are constantly being extended.

This young publishing company designs its products with talented illustrators providing unique French expertise. As something new, the canvas prints quickly made a splash and they are now distributed across the world in more than 50 concept-stores.

“Physical materials for imparting information have either completely disappeared, lack educational content or are unattractive. And where have all those traditional educational wall charts which captured all (or almost all!) our attention at school gone? I’d really like to hang them on the living room wall and watch my children dream, debate, laugh, etc.” Isabelle Diacono

And the story has just began! A unique partnership between Isabelle and France's National Library comes after, which will try to be pass on to new generations the remarkable heritage of France, combining tradition and modernity. The treasures from the France's National Library takes a second life on Isabelle's canvases and permeates through the interior decoration into the homes of today's families. Those who love beauty and knowledge to be shared, will discover rare illustrations, veritable treasures from France's National Library, revisited by Les Jolies Planches. Les Jolies Planches and France's National Library share the same philosophy and the same desire to pass on knowledge to new generations. This search for wonder, beauty and its preservation play out in their work. Two eras, two areas of expertise and two styles go together perfectly to give the rare and the sublime a new lease of life and turn these canvas prints into veritable works of art.