Parisian Creation House Since 1977
House of Creation
Reinventing Chocolate.
At La Maison du Chocolat, innovation doesn’t just aim to surprise, it creates an experience. As Robert Linxe once envisioned, the Maison’s creations embody a constant quest for renewal. Chocolate is treated as a living material, continuously transformed, reimagined, and pushed beyond its traditional boundaries.
When the Maison dreams up an oyster-infused chocolate, it’s not to impress, it’s to reinvent chocolate. No limits, no taboos. It boldly embraces new uses: exploring the savory side of chocolate, aging it in oak barrels to capture the essence of a spirit without a single drop of alcohol. Inventing a collection where air becomes an ingredient. Creating a cabinet of curiosities that breaks conventions without ever compromising on pleasure.
Each creation advances the art of chocolate, building a sensory journey—an ongoing dialogue between taste and emotion.
Sculpting Chocolate.
At La Maison du Chocolat, creation is also an artistic signature, a goldsmith’s work on the material itself. In the decoration workshop, chocolate is sculpted, shaped, even pierced to better play with light and transparency. This approach flirts with art, giving chocolate a graphic and architectural dimension. Here, the Maison doesn’t just surprise, its chocolate becomes a work of art in its own right.
If Robert Linxe paved the way by revealing chocolate in its essential purity, La Maison du Chocolat has since challenged the ordinary, turning innovation into a playground. Nothing is fixed everything is experimentation. It reinterprets gestures, embraces uniqueness. Its creations don’t follow trends they open up a world of possibilities where chocolate is limited only by imagination.
« We taste, we taste again, we savor waiting for the moment when the chocolate seems just right. You have to detect the exact nuance, sometimes very subtle, that separates the good from the excellent, and then the excellent from the exceptional. » Robert Linxe