La Cornue is French cooking treated as custom craft. Since Albert Dupuy built the first vaulted convection oven in Paris in 1908, the house has made its ranges to order, by hand, in France, closer to commissioned furniture than to a shipped appliance. A Château is chosen the way a designer chooses a signature piece for a room: color, brass or nickel trim, oven and rangetop configuration, all specified.
Design Gallery does not currently display a La Cornue range. What our team does instead is plan one: against real cabinetry and ventilation in the working kitchen, with color samples requested from the house, and with the clearances a commissioned range needs drawn before it is ordered. La Cornue is available to specify through our designers; ask about seeing one in person.
Specifying La Cornue with our team
La Cornue reaches our clients through our designer partnerships. Book a visit to Design Gallery Roseville and our team will work through the specification with you.
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The engineering is as deliberate as the finish. Albert Dupuy's vaulted oven moves heat around the food rather than straight at it, and the house has built on that idea rather than replaced it for more than a century: each range is still assembled by hand in the workshop at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, outside Paris, by a craft company of about sixty people, to the customer's own specification.
For a designer, the drawing is where a La Cornue is won or lost: the hood width for a 43-inch CornuFé, the depth a Château needs, the color against the cabinetry. Our team plans that in Roseville with the working kitchen as the reference, so the range arrives into a room that was drawn for it.
What a French cooking suite is
A range built as the centerpiece of a kitchen rather than a fitted appliance: vaulted ovens, a rangetop you configure burner by burner, and color and trim chosen to order. La Cornue's Château is where the idea comes from, and the house still describes each one as made to order in some 8,000 configurations, colors, finishes and measurements. The suite is the range plus what surrounds it, the hood, the cabinetry, the counters, planned as one piece of furniture rather than as an appliance dropped into a gap.
Château and CornuFé, the two families
La Cornue builds two families, and they answer different commissions:
built to order in France, from the 24-inch Château 60 through the 90, 120, 150 and 165 to the six-foot Grand Palais 180, plus the Châtelet 135; created in 1964 by the second generation of the Dupuy family, every one around the vaulted oven.
the range that brings the La Cornue character into a set palette and a set format. The CornuFé 110 is 43 inches wide, with two electric convection ovens and either five gas burners or a five-zone induction top; the CornuFé 90 is the narrower version.
The two sit at very different scales of commitment, and that usually settles the choice before color does.
Why the vaulted oven matters
In 1908 Albert Dupuy built what the house calls the world's first convection oven, with a vaulted ceiling to carry heat around the food instead of straight at it, and named it after the cornue, the gas-refining apparatus that fed it. The vault is still the signature: it is what gives a Château its even roast, and it is the reason the house never replaced the idea, only refined it. Every range is assembled by hand at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône.
Seeing a La Cornue before you commission one
Design Gallery Roseville has no La Cornue today, and we would rather say so than let a photograph imply otherwise. What the working kitchen gives you is the next-best thing: a room where a commissioned range is planned at full scale against real DreamLine cabinetry, real ventilation and real stone, so the hood width, the clearances and the color are settled on the drawing. Ask our team about seeing a La Cornue in person and about requesting color samples from the house.
The questions owners actually ask
People who cook on a La Cornue tend to ask the same things before they commission: whether the ovens have a window or a timer, how a quarter-sheet pan fits, how wide the hood should be for a 43-inch range, who services the range near Sacramento, and how long a Château takes to arrive. Our team answers each of those against La Cornue's current specifications rather than from memory, and writes the answers into the drawing.
Specifying La Cornue with our team
For an interior designer, La Cornue is a commission rather than a purchase. Every choice on a made-to-order range is design work, the finish, the trim, the oven configuration, and each one rewards being seen in real light rather than on a swatch. Bring your plans and our team can walk you from the line and finish to the clearances and rough-in a made-to-order range needs. See the Trade Program for designers to set up a partnership.
Frequently asked questions
What is a French cooking suite?
A range that is the centerpiece of the room instead of an appliance fitted into a gap: vaulted ovens, a rangetop configured burner by burner, and a palette of colors and trims you choose from. The Château is the original of the idea; our team plans one against real cabinetry in the Roseville working kitchen.
Where is La Cornue made?
In France, by hand. La Cornue's workshop is at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, north-west of Paris, and the house employs about sixty people. It began in Paris in 1908 with Albert Dupuy's vaulted convection oven.
What is the difference between a Château and a CornuFé?
A Château is a commission: any size from the small Château 60 up to the Grand Palais 180, with the rangetop, color and trim you specify. A CornuFé is a set format: the 110 is 43 inches wide with twin electric convection ovens under a gas or induction top, in a fixed palette, for kitchens that want the character without a full commission.
How much does a La Cornue range cost?
Each Château is specified by its configuration, color and trim, so there is no list number to quote; a CornuFé is a set format. Bring your plans to Design Gallery in Roseville and our team will specify the range with you. La Cornue is available through DreamHome Appliance Group, inside Design Gallery.
Can I see a La Cornue range in person near Sacramento?
Not today: there is no La Cornue range at Design Gallery in Roseville. Our team plans a commission at full scale in the working kitchen instead, with color samples from the house and the clearances drawn first. Book a visit to start, and ask about seeing one in person.
Specify it with our team
Bring your plans and our team will specify La Cornue with you. Book a visit to see how we work in our working kitchen, then sit down with the drawings.
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