Arriving from the Vosges in 2021, Tiphaine is a true mountain girl. And even though she’s fully embraced our beautiful Provencal region and its olive trees, she still gets wistful from time to time about the great pine forests… Passionate about the exhilarating speed of sports cars and the creative world of tattoos, her rock […]
Robin is the webmaster of the company. In other words, he alone masters all the technical aspects of our website and online store. But his talents do not stop there: holding a BTS in audiovisual and a multimedia director’s degree, he is also our cameraman and designated drone pilot, in addition to editing most of
Arnaud is the manager and creator of shade sails. At the beginning, there is Arnaud, the fourth generation of the Fert family. With a degree in Materials Science, he begins a career in aerospace engineering in Germany. He returns from across the Rhine after his father’s retirement to assist his sister in the family factory.
2024 Experiencing remarkable success, La Scourtinerie logically establishes itself as the leader in the market for shade sails made from coconut fiber. The company is industrializing and significantly expanding its team. In 2024, to support this expansion, the company separates administratively from its parent company and becomes Les Ombrières de Provence®. Firmly focused on its
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2017 It was during one of his annual business trips to Kerala that Arnaud Fert imagined and created the very first shade sail made of coconut fiber. After some studies and adjustments, La Scourtinerie launched in 2017 Les Ombrières de La Scourtinerie®: both practical and highly aesthetic, the success was immediate. The company even won
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2000 Over the years and through travels, La Scourtinerie builds much more than just a simple commercial exchange. Naturally curious and open to Keralite culture, the Fert family weaves strong bonds of friendship with their raw material supplier, fostering a relationship based on trust and fairness. Furthermore, the local craftsmanship that each generation of the
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1960 The olive oil industry was severely affected, and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Fert family tried to diversify their production. Observing the tendency of modest Provencal families to reuse used scourtins as doormats, Georges and Alain Fert decided to use their handcrafted machines to create genuine decorative carpets: Scourtin de
1956 France experienced an exceptionally mild early winter, causing an early sap rise in local flora, before a Siberian cold snap paralyzed the country, which recorded some of the lowest temperatures in its recent history. The Seine and the Rhône froze over, and even the port of Marseille was gripped by ice. The olive trees
