Established in September of 2004 by Charlet brothers, Don and Brent, The Corbel is the most all encompassing store in the South for architectural salvage building materials and interiors. After building custom southern and French architecture for 10 years as residential contractors, the Charlets had a desire to provide a single resource in one place for all of the highly sought after antique heart pine and cypress wood products and all of the unique architectural salvage products that they regularly had to source all over the country to build their custom homes. You are probably wondering where the name came from. For the Charlets, the name of "The Corbel" has more meaning than its architectural definition.  Commonly used in early French and Spanish architecture, a Corbel is a piece that connects a post or a vertical wall to a beam or an adjoining ceiling. "Connection "or "Support" being the idea for the store. All of the goods that are offered in the 11,000 square foot space and the 4 acre area that the store is located on have a connection, or you may say that they support one another. From the smallest pieces of jewelry that are offered to the largest antique heart pine beam you can imagine, all of the goods are connected by the idea of renewal or new life. At The Corbel, all things are given new life. A building that has been torn down or a cotton crate that has been discarded receives new life by the creative design ideas and energized efforts of not only the owners, but also the entire staff. The Corbel employs builders, designers, and artisans who collaborate to create custom furniture, custom lighting, unique ceiling beam and wood design for homes, and many other creative products and services.

What you will find upon visiting The Corbel is a place and a staff that can help you with the smallest challenge of buying a distinctive gift, to the biggest challenge of designing a home or space in your home and providing the services and products to complete the design. The front of the store houses unique jewelry and gifts, custom and specialty lighting and furnishings, architectural oddities and accent pieces, reclaimed and antique furniture and objects, antique stained glass and bottles, and some very unique house ware pieces. When you enter the large warehouse you will find hundreds of salvaged antique doors, windows, and Corbels from France, Belgium and historic cities like New Orleans. Also you will find antique heart pine flooring, antique cypress tables and furnishings, antique heart pine beams, antique cypress beams, antique oak flooring, antique wrought iron gates, antique balusters and turnings, and the list goes on. In the back you'll see where the sweat happens, a paint stripping vat and wood storage area, a custom furniture shop, and a wood processing shed are all the areas in which the work of renewal takes place. At the Corbel we feed on the opportunity to take something old and create something new from it. Many times we take a customer's ideas of what they would like, and then we select some parts of an antique door or an antique corbel and we create for them a new table or bed. If you like to participate in the design or not we can find or create a piece for any place in your home that is sure to be a conversation piece.

Husband and wife team Don and Susan Charlet currently own and operate The Corbel.  Although the two have always been majorly involved in the management of the business, they are now the exclusive buyers and designers for the store. Brent Charlet, along with his wife and family moved to Austin, TX to open a specialty shop called Adorn Home and Body. Don and Susan share a passion for solid design and have expanded the product lines in the store adding a few more antique pieces and a larger selection of antique wood products including antique rough sawn oak flooring. The Corbel is and should be considered a green product and service provider because there aren't many products or services that are friendlier to the earth than the ones that give new life to things that have already had a previous life. All of the new additions have only enhanced the continuing effort of renewal and connectivity. Don't wait any longer to make your way to The Corbel destination.  Your visit will surely give you an experience of new life and will join you with people that really enjoy reclaiming life!

911 Highway 61
Jackson, LA 70748
30.705032, -91.270761
(GPS Coordinates are approximate)
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Phone: (225) 654-0130 or (225) 654-6016
Fax: (225) 654-0970
Email: donna@thecorbel.com

Hours: Monday-Friday - 10am-5pm; Saturday - 10am-3:30pm
Holiday Store Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am-5:00pm

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Hours: Monday-Friday - 10am-5pm; Saturday - 10am-3:30pm
Holiday Store Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am-5:00pm

We specialize in custom hand-made furniture.

Quality and detail are our number one priority; we build each piece by hand in our 10,000 s.f. warehouse. Each board is sanded, stained and sealed by our in house carpenter. We pride ourselves on quality and making each piece fit the style of your home. We use antique and reclaimed wood to construct all our furniture. We offer custom pieces along with designer furniture that has been created by our designer in house, ready for purchase. Each designer piece of furniture has been created from the same antique wood that we use for our custom
furniture. We also specialize in wrought iron table bases and legs. We have created dining tables, beds, sofa tables, benches, bunk beds, and many others pieces of furniture for our client's homes. We look forward to helping you with your needs.

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The Corbel: Treasures and Creations

Written by: Marissa Frayer
Reprinted from: ourhouse.biz

Chances are you have seen a corbel, an architectural bracket. But if you drive too quickly down Highway 61, you might not see The Corbel, a trove of treasures. Look for the metal rooster sitting on an old cypress stump in front of a weathered picket fence and a welcoming front porch. You will be met with more than meets the eye.

The Corbel is owned by Don and Brent Charlet and their wives, Susan and Kim, offering 15,000 square feet of custom furniture, architectural salvage, flooring, gifts, antiques, and more. Their storefront celebrates its fourth anniversary this month, but their home-related careers started long ago with remodeling homes. Remodeling gave way to new home construction, which lead them to flooring when Brent's father-in-law gave them a heads up on an old cotton gin being demolished. The brothers brought back four or five 18-wheeler loads of heart pine. This bounty turned their eyes toward demolition, which ironically has fueled their desires to create. They save everything from demolished homes-whether they demolish them or not-and turn the salvage into tables, hutches, flooring, beams, entertainment centers, wine racks, and decorative pieces.

"Everything is real symbiotic around here," Don Charlet says. "People come in to get flooring and they go, 'Oh, you have furniture.' It all kind of feeds off each other."

Most of their salvaged wood-heart pine wood-is used for flooring and comes from old beams. Some of it shows its history through old nail holes, while other pieces have the original patina remaining. Their most recent find comes from an old warehouse in New York. It's wide plank flooring, character-ridden with circle saw marks and even the original stamps showing that it was milled in New York.

Salvaged cypress mainly goes into furniture or cabinetry. Don and Brent started building custom furniture two years ago to joyful results. One customer saw the brothers' handiwork from start to finish. Her homestead had to be torn down before it risked falling down. Don and Brent reclaimed some of the wood from the home and made it into a table for her.

"She almost came to tears," Don Charlet says. "Now she has something she can touch, feel, and it's a part of her. That's the kind of piece of furniture the kids-if they don't put it in the will-will squabble over."

These niche-oriented, one-of-a-kind pieces are what drive the brothers. They can make a piece from salvaged materials they have in stock, like 10-foot, oval top pocket doors from a plantation home in Tallulah, or from materials customers bring in. Currently, they are working on a custom desk for a client's home office that will incorporate heirloom branding irons into the design as a showpiece. And there are always simpler pieces that can be done to a customer's desired dimensions, like the 8-foot by 5.5-foot old cypress table they recently completed.

Their custom furniture and architectural salvage operation may be unfamiliar to those who have only set foot in the gift shop. But beyond the handmade Italian Fortunata ceramics and the imported Eastern European antiques are the doors that give way to custom creation. Stop by the next time you travel down Highway 61. Make a u-turn if you must. You never know what treasure you might find-or have custom made!

Michigan women travel south to hit boutiques of Baton Rouge

Written by: Karen Martin
Assistant People editor
Published: May 17, 2009
Reprinted from: 2theadvocate.com

If Baton Rouge's economy shows an unexpected uptick this month, a group of women from Michigan just might be the cause.

While some women might venture across town for a good sale, this group traveled more than 1,000 miles to take advantage of great shopping at the boutiques and malls of Baton Rouge and the surrounding area.

Why, you might ask?

"Baton Rouge has incredible boutiques," said Amy Kogler Langeler, the ringleader of this merry band of hardcore shoppers. "You can find things here that you won't find anywhere else."

Langeler, 33, grew up in Baton Rouge but now calls Jenison, Mich., home.

Shopping in the North, she said, is more function than fun. Yes, you can get great coats, but when it comes to fun summer tops, handbags, sandals and dresses, Baton Rouge just can't be beat.

Over the years, a friend or two or five have come home with Langeler.

"In 2005, five of us came. In 2006, there were seven. This year, it's 10 of us," said Langeler.

Once here, the group was joined by Langeler's mom, Jeannene Kogler, 60, of Baton Rouge; her sister, 25-year-old Allison Kogler Matherne, of Covington; and Julie Salguero, 25, a family friend from Baton Rouge. That made a total of 13.

They all stayed at Kogler's Baton Rouge home.

And that took some organization. Fortunately, Langeler, a graphic designer and the mother of two, is an organizer extraordinaire.

That's what it takes to get 10 women on the right plane and to shuttle 13 women in a three-car caravan from New Orleans to St. Francisville and back again, with many, many shopping stops along the way.

"She scheduled who's rooming with who, and she made a bathroom schedule. You had to decide if you wanted to shower in the morning or at night," said Jane Haney, 62. "She wanted to make sure we all had hot water." Read the rest of this article