Tipis and yurts, for hire and sale throughout Europe

Having lived in, travelled with, created and enjoyed the experience of yurts and tipis, huts, benders and trucks, for the last 17 years, the members of Fait à Dessein have come together to promote awareness of the amazing capacity for imagination and creation regarding how, and in what, we are able to live.

Throughout millennia, people the world over have evolved to live in balance with their environment, whether in the desert, in polar regions, on mountains, beaches, or plains. The huge variety of dwellings that has arisen from this evolution is testimony to mankind’s astounding adaptability.

From the woven goat and camel hair tents of the Bedouin and the Kuchi, to the felt covered yurts and gers of the Mongols and Kyrgyz, the igloos of the Inuit, the tipi of the Plains Indians, huts of mud, of thatch, of straw, of wood,and the tarpaulin covered benders of road protesters: the list is as long as mankind’s scope for making shelter with whatever resources are available.

We celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of these homes.

We love both traditional and innovative design, so if you have ideas of your own about what you’d like to live in, we are open to aiding that process through practical work, offering advice, and sharing and discussing ideas.

Media coverage of the lives of nomadic people has stirred a memory of an existence free of the stresses of our modern day lives, more in harmony with nature and each other; closer to the earth. The possibility of taking a break, living in, or simply being for a time in dwellings such as tipis and yurts, allows us this awakening for ourselves....

As my father wrote to me after his first visit to me in my tipi,

“ Thank you so much. This was not just a holiday, it was an experience. ”