E. Dehillerin, cookware on the rue Coquillière since 1820

E. Dehillerin, the cookware shop on the rue Coquillière, traces its origins to 1820, when an old shop the house later took over first opened. In the 1880s, Eugène de Hillerin bought a hardware shop at 1 rue Montmartre and a coppersmith’s workshop at 7 rue du Bouloi.

In 1890 the shop moved to the rue Coquillière, near Les Halles, whose restaurateurs were its first customers, before the Élysée and many Parisian palace hotels. The house won a gold medal in 1894 and fitted out the cold rooms of the liner Normandie in the early 1930s. Julia Child admired the shop and has drawn many American visitors there ever since.

After Eugène’s death in 1902, his widow Augustine ran the house until their son Maurice returned in 1919. A member of the Resistance, Maurice was deported to Buchenwald-Dora, where he died in 1944. His son Jean joined in 1949; Éric and Édouard, the founder’s great-grandsons, run it today.

At 18-20 rue Coquillière, in the 1st arrondissement, the shop offers copper pans and every utensil of the kitchen, true to its motto: a modest contribution to the promotion of French cuisine.