Artertre: Eiffel Towers Still Cast in France

Published: October 29, 2026
Reading time: 2 min
Producer: Artertre

Almost everything Clipperton brings over from France is food. The exception is a tower. Artertre, a family company founded in the 1980s, describes itself as the last manufacturer of miniature Eiffel Towers still working in France, and the claim rests on a simple fact: it still casts them itself.

A workshop and its molds

For around forty years the firm has kept the craft of casting metal miniatures at home, in its own workshop. Its towers are cast in Zamak, a zinc alloy, and the company now uses recycled metal. The molds are the heart of the business: originals carved by hand by the company’s artisans, which is what gives the latticework its precision, from the four feet to the antenna.

Besides the tower, the workshop reproduces other landmarks of the capital, including the Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame and Sacré-Cœur, and its range has grown to mugs, bowls and plates, snow globes, keyrings and coasters. The miniature Eiffel Tower, in several sizes and in bronze or antique-silver finishes, remains what Artertre is known for.

Trusted by the shops of Paris

That care has earned Artertre a place in the shops that are fussiest about what they sell in the name of Paris. It supplies the Galeries Lafayette, the boutiques of the Centre des monuments nationaux at sites such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Lagardère travel-retail shops in airports and train stations, with which it has worked for more than twenty years, and some two hundred boutiques in Paris. For the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it was an official licensed supplier.

What we carry

We carry a single piece: the Eiffel Tower Decoration, a metal figurine 34.5 cm high, cast and finished in France. It is the largest model in the range, substantial enough to stand on a mantelpiece, a desk or a shop counter, and detailed enough to read as the real thing from across the room.