The House · Est. 2030 · Paris
gene dogs is a Parisian house producing engineered companion animals. Each line is a small numbered series, designed at our atelier in the Marais, finished by hand, and placed under a lifelong covenant of care.
"Every household deserves a dog to love. We design each line to standard, finish each dog by hand, and place it with the household that has chosen it — at the highest quality the trade allows. Not a product but a companion, made for one home and made to be loved for life."
— Founder's note
Small, numbered series of engineered companion animals.
01 · The Dogs
Each line runs in a fixed series of no more than five hundred placements. The house keeps six lines in active production and three retired. Every animal carries a Genome ID and a Lineage Certificate that follows it across its life.
02 · Atelier
From the Lyon sequencing lab to the Paris nursery, each dog spends roughly nine months in the house before delivery. The atelier is the last place it sees before its household.
03 · Concierge
Every dog is assigned a named Concierge for the duration of its placement record — for administrative continuity, periodic Lineage annotation, and oversight of re-housing under §6 of the Return Policy. Household visits are available by request.
Five years, nine lines (six currently in production), one atelier.
2030
gene dogs is established in the Marais by Camille Aubert (formerly of the Lyon Institute for Companion Genetics) and the late Henri Marchetti, whose tailoring atelier on rue de Sévigné becomes the original building.
2031
The opening release — a whippet with a softly iridescent coat — is shown in a private salon of forty guests. Sixty placements made.
2032
The Borzoi is released in a single Ash coat — eighty placements. After a return is mishandled by a third-party carrier, the house writes its first Care Covenant: from this point on, no dog travels without an accompanying handler.
2033
The Saluki is released in two coats — Ivory and Dust; one hundred and twenty placements. The first of the current lines, Shiba Inu, also opens. In the same year the Bonded Lineage Programme is formalised: resale is moved in-house, and the Lineage Certificate becomes a bonded document.
2034
Golden Retriever and French Bulldog lines open. An independent veterinary panel begins annual audits of the atelier, the nursery, and the re-housing programme; the first report is published in full.
2035
Siberian Husky and Welsh Corgi open early in the year. Toy Poodle opens on 12 May in four coats — Brown, Pearl, Charcoal, and Apricot. The house now holds six lines in active production and three retired, under the second cycle of the external audit.
The Atelier
Our atelier occupies three floors of a 17th-century hôtel particulier in the Marais. The ground floor is a reception room held under the Bonded Lineage Programme; the first floor, the nursery; the upper floor, the sequencing and quality rooms. The building has been the seat of the house since founding.
From the small garden at the rear, the rue de Sévigné is invisible. From the upper floor, Paris.
The named individuals responsible for each part of a dog's life.
Founder & Creative Director
Geneticist; formerly of the Lyon Institute for Companion Genetics. Sets the house line and answers personally for every dog placed.
Head of the Nursery
Veterinary behaviourist. Oversees the eleven-week acclimatisation period before any dog leaves the atelier.
Lead Concierge
The Concierge team. The first conversation about a return, and the last conversation before re-housing, runs through this office.
Chair, Ethics Committee
External chair. Veterinary ethicist (Universidade de Lisboa). Publishes the house's annual audit independently of management.
What it means, in practice, to know where every dog lives.
Each dog is issued a single Lineage Certificate. It is bonded — it cannot be transferred outside the house's records — and it is annotated, not replaced, on resale.
Open-market resale is not permitted. The house operates a controlled secondary channel so that every change of placement is recorded and accompanied.
If a dog is found to be at risk in its household, the house may exercise a right of recall and bring the dog back to the atelier. This is a last measure and has been used twice.
Each Concierge reviews their dogs once a year. The review takes place at the household by appointment, or by recorded video call where preferred.
Ethics & Audit
We engineer companion animals to standard, and we do it with the rigour, the oversight, and the visibility the work deserves. Every dog the house issues is bonded to its record for life.
Our ethics committee meets quarterly under an external chair. The annual veterinary audit is conducted by a panel we do not appoint, and its findings are published in full.
Returned dogs are never destroyed. The Bonded Lineage Programme guarantees onward placement under §6 of the Return Policy. We were the first house to write that guarantee. We remain the only one.
Selected writing on the house and its work.
"A house that treats genetics as craft. The atelier in the Marais is, quietly, one of the most considered spaces in Paris."
"The most exclusive companion of the season. The waiting list is more discreet than the dog."
"gene dogs is what a luxury house would be if a luxury house had decided, from the outset, to make a living thing."
Available in three coats, in a numbered run of five hundred. Each placement begins with a conversation.
View the dogOur full ethics commitments, published audit results, and unresolved questions are kept openly. The Care Covenant is a contract; the statement is our standing.
Read the statement