Lu France Interiors
Naturally dyed, handwoven, named in Tagalog: home goods built to carry Filipino craft into diaspora living rooms.
Shop Lu France InteriorsFrance Malvar spent 14 years teaching children how to understand the world before she started making beautiful things for it. That background shows. Lu France Interiors has the patience and intentionality of someone who knows how to pass something on.
The Founders
France Malvar
Founder & Creative Director
Fast Facts
From the Classroom to the Dye Pot
France Malvar spent 14 years as an early childhood educator — first in Manila, then in California — building preschool curricula and teaching small children how to understand the world. When the pandemic arrived in 2020, she did what many educators quietly do: she turned her attention to what she had always known and never quite acted on. She enrolled at the New York Institute of Art and Design, apprenticed in natural dyeing, and in October of that year launched Lu France Interiors. The name comes from her two grandmothers: Lucy and Francisca. Every piece carries that inheritance forward.
From the start, I knew I wanted to create a brand that would share my style, eye, and love for design while also highlighting values such as sustainability, love for tradition and artistry, and an appreciation for communities and makers whose hands and stories make beautiful handmade pieces.
The product range is intimate and deliberate: naturally dyed silk scarves and textiles, handwoven pillow covers sourced from weaving communities in Ilocos Norte, Bicol, and Cebu, soy candles and room sprays named in Tagalog: simoy (breeze), gabi (night) and curated home objects from artisans across the Philippines and beyond. Every dye is plant-based. Every weave arrives with the story of the hands that made it.
In 2022, France co-founded Merkado Kultura, a curated makers market in San Diego celebrating Filipino artistry across ceramics, textiles, sculpture, and food. The market is an extension of the same conviction that drives her brand: that Filipino success should be collective. "It's very important that my success should also be someone else's success," she has said. "There are so many Filipino creatives — we can be many things."
Why We Featured Them
What Makes Lu France Interiors Different
01
The Name Is the Story
Lu France is named for France's two grandmothers — Lucy and Francisca. That act of naming sets the tone for everything the brand makes: products rooted in specific people, specific histories, and the specific Filipino households they came from.
02
Tagalog Is the Design Language
Product names are drawn from Filipino words — simoy, gabi, and others — not as decoration but as immersion. France uses language the same way she uses natural dye: as a quiet, deliberate way to embed culture into an everyday object.
03
She Builds Community, Not Just Products
In 2022, France co-founded Merkado Kultura, a San Diego makers market dedicated to Filipino artistry. Her weavers come from Ilocos Norte, Bicol, and Cebu. Her belief is explicit: her success should also be her community's success.
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