Furniture Plus
Much of the furniture at Ligne Roset has some kind of playful surprise feature: tables that gracefully shift shape; desks that become sideboards; and tossable, pliable, bendable sofas. I toured the Cady’s Alley showroom Wednesday with the store’s delightful owner, Ilinca Bartolomeu, and her daughter Catrinel, and here’s a taste of what they showed me.
I’d suggest you not sit in Inga Sempé’s Moël chair unless you plan to fall in love. Firm, flexible, and as enveloping as a bear hug, it has a way of giving you your own little cocoon in a room without cutting you off completely. The chair was introduced last year and is now available in a low-back form, and like most other Ligne Roset furniture can be upholstered in more than 400 fabrics. The line also has matching love seats, sofas, and ottomans.
Space-saving and ease of use are two of the company’s main objectives when curating designs, exemplified by the F2 and F10 tables designed by Nils Frederking. The F2 is round and low for casual, intimate dining, and with the press of a button it folds up like, well, some kind of napkin. “It’s like origami,” Catrinel says. The F10 is rectangular and has an inverted V-shaped leaf that oh-so-smoothly elongates the dining surface. We like.
In some dark, romantic French furniture factory, I believe daybeds and formal sofas are having quite a precipitous affair. How else to explain the Patchwork furniture line? Pascal Mourgue’s lively designs have backs and arms that bend back and forth with ease. The seating can be sculpted to suit all manners of lounging, which is sure to dismay all our posture-conscious grandmothers.
Ligne Roset
3306 M St., NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.333.6390
ligne-roset-usa.com
That Patchwork looks so fun!