September 23rd, 2010

Jean Paul Gauthier designs sofas for Roche Bobois

This sofa is the design of Jean Paul Gauthier for Roche Bobois, a high end furniture and home decor store I’d die to buy my sofa in… Why that?

It’s merely the only store in France that makes a wide choice of sofa designs more than 43” deep available. For me, a sofa must be a place I throw myself in when back home, snuggle in on week end spent at home, laze in on Sun morning to refill my soul for the next week. A sofa is made for enjoying being home. It must feel like home. I’m not the kind of person into leather sofa I wouldn’t dare to sleep in. You know, you just sit down back straigth as if you got Michelle Obama invited and you want to look perfect.

This particular sofa’s shape is several years old. You can buy every element apart, mix them up to make a straight, single, double, triple corner sofa. Or just one armchair if you want. Jean Paul Gauthier redressed it up and I love what he did. I’m into solid colors for my home decor. I like it easy on the eyes. That my look slips around. But those patterns are lovely. Why, because the room is otherwise sleek : white veils and black glazed ground. The sofa dresses up the room. And at the end : it rocks. You shouldn’t have gotten surprised. I talked yet how I love this rising again trend to mix patterns.