La Boutique du Futur turns 20!

In September 2006, La Boutique du Futur opened its doors at 18 rue Périer, in Montrouge. Twenty years later, it is still here. And so is the future.

La Boutique du Futur belongs to Stilic Force, a French object design and publishing company founded in May 1995. It grew out of eleven years of experience, inventions and the desire to offer the public another vision of design.

But not necessarily the future we were promised.

Here, there are no flying cars, no household robots and no toaster tied to a monthly subscription. For twenty years, we have defended a simpler, funnier and more human future: that of ingenious objects that solve real little everyday problems.

A story that began in 1995

The adventure therefore began well before the shop opened.

In May 1995, Stilic Force was founded with one ambition: to imagine original, useful and affordable objects, then manage to make and sell them.

For eleven years, Stilic Force developed its own creations, built prototypes, took part in trade fairs and gradually built up its know-how. In 2006, the company decided to create a place where its inventions could be shown directly to the public.

That is how La Boutique du Futur was born: the showcase, the shop and the idea laboratory of Stilic Force.

Twenty years of ideas turned into objects

La Boutique du Futur was born of a conviction: a good idea doesn't need to be complicated to be innovative.

Over the years, Stilic Force has designed and made dozens of objects as useful as they are unexpected: the SavOsec, which lets soap dry without taking up space, the VachàBeurre, the Beklip, the Pagemarker, the Babyplane, the Cyclospace and many other inventions with sometimes strange names, but whose purpose becomes obvious as soon as you use them.

Some of these objects have won awards at the Concours Lépine. Others have quietly found their way into the kitchens, bathrooms, offices and bags of thousands of people.

All share the same principle: doing better with less.

The future isn't necessarily digital

In twenty years, the world has changed. The phone became a computer, objects started talking to each other and even light bulbs now ask for a password.

Yet our objects often keep working without batteries, without a connection, without consumables and above all without a subscription.

This choice, which may have seemed old-fashioned a few years ago, seems more modern than ever to us today. A durable, repairable, understandable and immediately usable object has a quality that has become rare: autonomy.

At La Boutique du Futur, we believe innovation doesn't always mean adding technology. Sometimes it means removing everything that is unnecessary.

A French and independent adventure

Behind La Boutique du Futur and Stilic Force, there are drawings, prototypes, failed tests, moulds, boxes, machines, suppliers, trade fairs and a great deal of stubbornness.

From the start, we have tried to favour French manufacturing and short supply chains. Producing locally isn't always the easiest or cheapest solution, but it keeps a direct link between the idea, its manufacture and its use.

Each object thus tells a small industrial and human story. It doesn't come out of nowhere: it was thought up, tested, corrected, sometimes abandoned, then started again until it became simple enough to seem obvious.

Twenty years of encounters

La Boutique du Futur would of course be nothing without those who bring it to life.

There are the curious customers who come in "just to look" and leave with an object they had no idea existed a few minutes earlier. There are the regulars, the partner shops, the journalists, the manufacturers, the interns, the collaborators and everyone who has helped, encouraged or sometimes contradicted us.

There are also the people who still own one of our objects bought ten, fifteen or twenty years ago. For a designer, there is probably no finer compliment.

See you on 11 September 2026

To celebrate these twenty years of inventions, tinkering, gambles and happy misunderstandings, we invite you to the anniversary of La Boutique du Futur:

Why 11 September? Because the shop was officially inaugurated on 11 September 2006. Rather than leave that date to bad memories, we decided, on our small scale, to recycle it.

It will be a chance to see the emblematic objects of Stilic Force and La Boutique du Futur again, to discover our projects and above all to share a drink with everyone who has taken part in this adventure.

And now?

Stilic Force is over thirty years old, La Boutique du Futur is celebrating twenty, and we still haven't finished inventing.

The future we imagine may be less spectacular than that of science-fiction films. But if it is cleverer, more durable, more accessible and a little funnier, that will already be a good start.

Thank you to everyone who has accompanied Stilic Force since 1995 and La Boutique du Futur since 2006.

La Boutique du Futur is 20 years old.
And this is only the beginning.