New settee by Inga Sempe

Inga Sempé has created the sofa Ruché for Ligne Roset. This is what the designer said about her work:

- To design one settee is difficult enough. To design another one for a company for whom you have already designed one - that’s even trickier. After Moël (2007), which belongs to the ‘all-foam’ family of seating, I wanted to take a completely different approach: a settee lifted from the ground by a simple, fine structure which supports a comfortable seat.

On her inspreation behind Ruché she says:

- I was, at the outset, inspired by swing seats, the kind of rocking seats which one brings out in the garden in summertime, made from tubing and fabric, which possess a lightness I like very much. Like them, Ruché combines rigidity and flexibility, with airy looks and sparing use of materials.

Ruché’s structure is in solid beech, either stained or natural. The angles of the feet are worked ‘en congé’, which both refines them and protects the grain of the wood from shocks. Upon its slim legs rests a thick mattress with distinctive quilting, a kind of boutis stitch or padding made using a cross-hatching of interrupted seams.

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