Our inspiration


cub-ar draws its inspiration from Armenia. The collection is designed in France by cub-ar, which then has the articles produced by craftsmen in Armenia using local materials such as obsidian, tuff and felzit. In each cub-ar collection that comes out you can discover not only new materials but a new world. All these objects are made with the most careful craftsmanship.

On this website you can look over the current collection of items sold by cub-ar through dealers in decorative objects, table settings, leatherwork, fine papers and cigars.

cub-ar also offers rough stone and tumbled stones for lithotherapy.

And cub-ar custom-designs products as well. Certain items can be produced in limited series (with item numbers engraved).

cub-ar personalizes items with laser engraving, hot-stamped gold or silver, and silkscreening. Limited series are individually engraved with our customers' names - or your customers' ( from a spreadsheet list). Contact us to learn how we can work creatively with you on customized corporate communications. A cub-ar object is one people keep for a very long time.

Fair trade

cub-ar upholds the principles of fair trade. In 2006 a statement of cub-ar's specific commitments will be posted on this site for all to read.

cub-ar remains at the same time a competitive organization, talent-based and market-driven.

Armenia

Do you know much about Armenia? The beauty of its Caucasian landscape, its harsh land-locked climate, its succession of high plateaus and volcanic massifs (culminating with Mount Ararat at 17,000 ft.).

A people tightly bound by ancient tradition, with their own alphabet, who were the first nation to make Christianity their official religion, in the year 301.

Armenia's history has been impacted by its geographical location between East and West, between Christendom and Moslem countries. Armenia has faced blandishments, invasions and annexation without ever renouncing its culture or its religion. It has also in its day conquered eastern lands and extended its sway and dominion from the Mediterranean to the Black and the Caspian Seas.

The land of Armenia is alive with history, and here an exceptional heritage has come down the ages. In particular, its churches and monasteries, many from before the 5th century, are shining examples of romanesque art.

After nearly a century of assimilation into the USSR (Armenia was the smallest Republic), Armenia gained its independence in 1991.

Lying in the heart of the Lesser Caucasus, it is surrounded by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey.