After notable creations such because the Clara shelving unit, the Ketch desk, and the Aube facet desk, the artisan designers on the Le Tenon et la Mortaise workshop are launching a model new assortment. BOSQUET: three items of indoor furnishings that, every in their very own method, invite you to take a break free from the hustle and bustle of our lives.
“Up to date structure values more and more open dwelling areas and we needed to design furnishings items that recreate intimacy and subspaces, harking back to groves in a backyard.” – Caroline Roberge, ébéniste, designer et co-fondatrice de Le Tenon et la Mortaise.
With the concept of making small hiding spots and secluded corners, the DOUGLAS display screen was born. Whereas this room divider naturally organizes dwelling areas and permits for intimacy, the MUGO armchair and BUIS stool enrich the gathering by inviting leisure and to decelerate, with a e-book in your hand and the solar in your face.
To finish the trio of furnishings, the designers had enjoyable revisiting the well-known Lazy Susan by providing a rotating flower-shaped tray which, by spinning the small dishes, turns into the ally of any impromptu aperitifs.
From De Stijl to Memphis: the inspiration behind Bosquet
The theme of the grove evokes the shapes of this new assortment. Like trimmed or wild shrubs, the curved traces evoke a universe the place concord, simplicity, and cheerfulness have a particular place.
“We drew plenty of inspiration from the De Stijl motion, the chairs of Gerrit Rietveld, and even the In Reward of Epicurus armchair by Ettore Sottsass. We appreciated the graphic shapes, proper angles, and stable panels, however we additionally needed one thing very practical and light-weight. We additionally needed to carry again the half-circle that we had explored with our AUBE facet desk.”
A set that celebrates the essence of Canadian forests
Since its starting, Le Tenon et la Mortaise has been working solely with hardwoods. For this assortment, there was a want to discover conifers, extra attribute of canadian boreal forests. Whereas pine and spruce had been thought-about, Douglas fir was chosen. “We appreciated its wealthy, straight, and secure grain, with much less knotty character than pine or spruce,” says Benoit.
For Le Tenon et la Mortaise, the character of Douglas, a fast-growing wooden, extremely adaptable to totally different climates, and available in Canada, tipped the scales for ecological causes. Additionally, the duo brings additional their strategy to make high-end furnishings in Flat Pack delivery, accessible for supply worldwide and simple to assemble (this time with out instruments or {hardware}).
The good entry of colours within the workshop
Accustomed to working solely with unstained stable woods, Le Tenon et la Mortaise introduces colour into their artistic course of.
“With this mission, we needed to discover a single wooden, the Douglas fir, however incorporating stain this time, opening up an entire world of potentialities. We selected shades impressed by vegetation, very spring-like, each calming and invigorating.” – Caroline Roberge, ébéniste, designer et co-fondatrice de Le Tenon et la Mortaise.
The gathering is obtainable in a pure model to benefit from the heat, mild brown pinkish grain of Douglas. Within the coloured model, the fir is wearing a ravishing lilac or forest inexperienced, however retains its seen grain. Picture credit score: Nancy Guignard
Le Tenon et La Mortaise
Since 2016, Le Tenon et la Mortaise has been providing helpful, lovely, and comforting furnishings and objects that enrich areas and those that inhabit them.
The strategy of those designer-makers is a part of a minimalist development that values noble supplies and conventional design strategies, guaranteeing work of nice ability and memorable high quality. Anchored in on a regular basis life, their achievements embody the power of sluggish and no-nonsense design, made to final.
Union of cabinetmakers and designers Caroline Roberge and Benoit St-Jean, who met on the Montreal faculty of fantastic woodworking 10 years in the past, Le Tenon et La Mortaise designs and manufactures its creations in its workshop in Saint-André-de-Kamouraska, Quebec.
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