"Geronimo" is now a table: Brutalux makes furniture from old hulls

Uske Berndt

· 08.07.2025

Cheers! This table used to be a part of the fuselage, more precisely the prow of "Geronimo".

The Giga-Cat "Geronimo" (34 x 22 metres) shortly after take-off from Sydney. On 2 June 2005, the circumnavigation of Australia began in record time.

Olivier Texier is the mastermind and craftsman behind Brutalux.

He usually finds the hull parts, like here from "Geronimo", at shipyards.

Another coffee table also fell off here, extended by metal legs.

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Photo: Oliver Texier/Brutalux

From bow to side table. The Brutalux studio transforms parts of old sailing yachts into pieces of furniture and sells them. To do this, carpenter Oliver Texier sands and welds in his studio in Guidel, Brittany. Here, the 65-year-old gives us a brief insight.

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Where do you put your coffee or beer at home?

I have the bow of the famous trimaran "Geronimo" in my living room, around which I sit with my friends and drink beer. The table is also for sale.

You build furniture from parts of sailing boats. How did you come to do this?

I like the principle of recycling, giving obsolete objects a new function. And I simply love working with different materials, with wood, metal and composites.

The yacht parts come from shipyards, don't they?

Yes, but also from other sources...

What do you do with it for Brutalux, apart from coffee tables?

It depends on what I see in the space I have at the moment. I make furniture, tables and some lights.

What do you need for your work?

I use various tools for wood, a welding machine and grinders to work on metal and also composite materials.

Where can I buy Brutalux furniture?

I used to offer them in warehouse sales, especially through 727 Sailbags - a company that makes bags from recycled canvas. But now I mainly sell through my social media accounts, Instagram and Facebook.

What Sail 2 shelter with old sails.

Uske Berndt

Editor News & Panorama

Uske was born just outside Volkswagen in 1970 and tested various small boats with sails through her boyfriend (now husband 😊) on a quarry pond. Her studies in Kiel took her to the Baltic Sea with boats of all kinds and eventually to a regatta from Hong Kong to Mauritius via the Academic Sailing Club. Her teacher training ended at the Burda School of Journalism in Munich instead of in the classroom and finally at Boote Exclusiv. After a long break and various stories about house building, she returned to Delius Klasing and has been filling the magazine with long stories about large ships ever since. A family-owned H-boat was quickly sold again as the mother realized that sailing with two small children was neither relaxing nor fun.

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"Geronimo" is now a table: Brutalux makes furniture from old hulls

Where do you put your coffee or beer at home?

You build furniture from parts of sailing boats. How did you come to do this?

The yacht parts come from shipyards, don't they?

What do you do with it for Brutalux, apart from coffee tables?

What do you need for your work?

Where can I buy Brutalux furniture?

Uske Berndt

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