Paul Duvignau describes himself as a shaper, carpenter, surf coach, multitask craftsman. He rides big waves at La Nord on boards he made himself. He rebuilds old cars, old motorbikes, old broken things not because he has to, but because he understands that the act of making something with your hands is never a waste of time.
His workshop in Hossegor is the kind of place you remember. Boards stacked against rough walls. The smell of resin in the air. Tools that have earned their place on the bench. A radio. Foam dust on everything, including, more often than not, his boots.
Those boots are Red Wings.
It wasn't a brief, or a brief, or a campaign concept. Paul just wears them. In the shaping room, on the sand, on the back of his 1986 Honda in the Pyrenees. They go where he goes. They carry the marks of the work, the same way his boards carry the marks of the ocean.
When we asked Paul to shape the only Red Wing surfboard in the world, he didn't need much of a brief. He understood it immediately, because the values that built these boots are the same ones that guide him every time he picks up a planer. No shortcuts. No excess. Make it right, make it to last, and let time do the rest.
The board is a 9'0 gun. Single fin. Earth-toned, with a red stringer running through its core, a detail that wasn't planned, but felt right. Paul signed it by hand, the way shapers always have, before it made the journey from Hossegor to Amsterdam.
It is now at Reestraat 15.
It is not for sale. But it belongs here, in a store built on the belief that the best things are made by hand, built to last, and only worth making if they're worth making properly.
Come in and see it.
