De Leeuw Guitars at the Élysée Palace

Laureate — Grande Exposition du Fabriqué en France 2025

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PRESIDENTIAL STAGE

Élysée Palace

De Leeuw Guitars, selected to represent French instrument making and the Oise department, with the straw marquetry Nina Air. The first electric guitar maker raised to this rank.

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Initiated by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the exhibition honoured the companies and artisans who embody the excellence of French making. 123 companies were selected by a national jury of experts. Our straw marquetry Nina Air guitar was exhibited there on 15 and 16 November 2025.

Relive the event

We presented our Nina Air, its top finished in varnished straw marquetry: an exclusive finish we developed in 2024, reviving an ancestral French savoir-faire long reserved for fine interiors and furniture.

For the first time, this technique is applied to an electric guitar. We developed a process that durably varnishes rye straw, making this living, fragile material compatible with the stage and the musician's hand: a bridge between decorative arts and lutherie, between material, light and sound.

Swan Vaude — La Marseillaise

THE PALACE GARDENS

The Grande Exposition in pictures

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The instruments on show

NINA AIR

MIDNIGHT BLUE

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NATURAL

NINA AIR

STRAW MARQUETRY