Ligne Roset groups up with Origine to create an ultra-limited-edition bike

That is the Fraxion GTR street bike, a masterpiece of French engineering and craftsmanship constructed by the Rouvignies-based Origine Cycles. Nevertheless, this specific instance is one in all simply ten, created out of a brand new partnership with up to date furnishings Ligne Roset.

The collaboration arose from a contented coincidence, after Ligne Roset used the house of co-founder of Origine, Yves Amiel, for a photoshoot for the Kashima couch. Amiel and his co-founder Rémi Lefèvre tapped into Ligne Roset’s inventive crew and the concept of a long-term however ‘unconventional’ partnership arose.

The mannequin chosen for the primary fruits of this collaboration is the Fraxion GTR, a high-tech racing machine with a monocoque carbon body, invisible cable routing and a streamlined body. The Ligne Roset x Origine version options ten distinctive Pantone colors, utilized to the frames, wheels, and seatposts, with particular consideration paid to the leather-based coverings and stitching on the handlebars and saddles.

Ligne Roset will show these ten bikes in its shops around the globe – Paris, New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Shanghai, and Dubai – with a view to creating the ultra-limited version right into a extra quite a few particular collection. The final word purpose is to combine Ligne Roset’s method into Origine’s line-up, with a variety of particular editions accessible on-line and in Ligne Roset showrooms.

Based on Olivier Roset and Antoine Roset, Ligne Roset’s Managing Administrators, the collaboration is ‘above all a beautiful human encounter, a benevolent group of design, creation, and biking fans. It’s a shared imaginative and prescient of French manufacturing,’ they proceed, ‘and of an entrepreneurial trade that innovates and challenges the place least anticipated.’

Yves Amiel and Rémi Lefèvre arrange Origine Cycles in 2012. The corporate makes bikes for each event, together with mountain bikes and e-bikes, with a concentrate on customisation and configuration for each mannequin.

The brand new bike is proven right here alongside Ligne Roset’s evergreen Togo foam couch, designed by Michel Ducaroy and first manufactured in 1973 – the 12 months the Ligne Roset identify was established. Since then, the corporate has gone on to grow to be an iconic French model, with collaborators together with Jean Nouvel, Inga Sempé, Philippe Nigro, and the Bouroullec brothers.