Roche Bobois presents a French-Japanese collection with Kenzo Takada

For many years, well-known luxury furniture brand Roche Bobois has been collaborating with emerging talents and big-names designers. This season, the brand presents a new collaboration with Kenzo Takada, the most Parisian of Japanese fashion designers.

Takada has imposed his unique style on the Mah Jong sofa, designed in 1971 by Hans Hopfer. As the name suggests, Hopfer was inspired by the ancestral Chinese game that combines strategy, tactics, calculation and psychology.

With the Mah Jong sofa, you create your own unique living room. There are endless combinations, thanks to only three elements: seat cushions, straight backs, and corner and lounge chair units. The iconic sofa has already been “dressed” by prestigious fashion designers such as Missoni and Jean-Paul Gaultier, each of whom brought his personal touch to the design – Gaultier, for instance, was inspired by the marine world and his famous “marinière”.

This time, Roche Bobois gave Kenzo Takada carte blanche. Combining his strong sense of fashion with Japanese tradition, Takada reinterpreted the pattern and colours of kimonos used in the Noh theatre to create three sofa designs. The Asa represents the morning, with pastel colours that remind one of the softness of sunrise. The Hiru, with vivid colours, represents midday. And the Yoru represents night, using different shades of blue.

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