Who are we?

We are Cécilia and Jérôme: a couple united by life, a first volunteering mission in Côte d’Ivoire, countless journeys… and the desire to embark on a venture together, to share what moves us.

A First Story, a first edition

HỘP was born from our inaugural tale: Shoeboxes’75, an intimate story evoking “Operation Babylift.” Driven by our wish to share this narrative, we had it translated into Vietnamese and entrusted to Phuong Nam Publishing House and the artist T.ho. Imbued with contemporary Vietnam, his interpretation — its colors and strokes — gives the narrative new life, infused with modernity.

A collection of objects to extend the emotion

Very quickly, the desire arose to expand this universe through a collection of objects inspired by the book’s images and sensations. It’s a way to make memory resonate, to prolong the act of reading in another form, to render tangible what moves us.

Meeting the artisans

In our research, we discovered the immense talent of Vietnamese artisans, bearers of unique, ancestral crafts—particularly in the delicate arts of lacquer and ceramics.
HỘP is committed to partnering with those who preserve and transmit this memory of the hand.

About us

Jérôme Conilleau
For more than twenty years, he has worked with development and humanitarian NGOs in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He is the author of Shoeboxes’75, his very first book.

Cécilia Chopin Conilleau
Born in Vietnam as Lê Thị Mỹ and arriving in France as a baby with nothing but a hospital wristband, Cécilia has spent over twenty years in international cooperation. She is the originator of HỘP’s sensitive and engaged universe.

A project to “read” together

After years spent traveling the world, in 2023 we returned to Ho Chi Minh City, manuscript in hand, to write a new chapter—of our lives and of our publishing house.
The first of our publishing house!

And why don’t we write it together?