Renaud’s Furniture Manufacturing

Renaud’s Furniture Manufacturing in Cocagne, New Brunswick was already half gone when I showed up, the demolition crews ripping through decades of craftsmanship like they were unthreading the past. I happened to arrive on the exact day the walls were coming down and ended up face to face with the site guard, a perfect collision of timing and chaos. The air reeked of dust, oil and pure calisss, that harsh industrial smell that sticks to your clothes and memory long after you walk away. Inside the collapsing shell, splintered wood, twisted metal and shattered rooms whispered the final traces of a workshop erased in a single afternoon. Only the photos remain to prove it ever stood.