39ABOVE
Highlights
from the
Globe Trotter
collection
designed
by Marcel
Wanders.
LEFT
Luxurious
furnishings to
browse at the
French brand’s
showroom.
OPPOSITE
The signature
Mah Jong
modular
seating system.text JACQUELINE TANhomes, providing interior
design services to advise
and help clients transform
their ideas into reality for
their dream home, be it an
apartment or a spacious landed
property. Customisation is key
and clients get to choose from
a broad selection of fabrics
and finishes. “Our showroom
staff are more than just sales
persons – they are experts
in the field who can provide
inspiration for your home, and
smart solutions for even small
apartments,” says Nicolas,
who graduated as an architect
from France’s prestigious
Ecole du Louvre and joined
the family business in 2006
as director of contemporary
furniture collections.
With a strong personal
interest in sustainable
development, he is also
the in-house expert on all
things eco, and oversaw the
development of the company’s
own qualitative assessment
software tool, Eco6, in 2012.
“The software was first based
on six criteria relating to the
different stages of the life
cycle of a particular product. It
highlighted the environmental
impact and allowed us to
focus on how to reduce them,”
explains Nicolas. “It’s since
been updated to Eco8 and is
now based on four stages of
the life cycle: ‘material profile’,
‘manufacturing’, ‘use’ and ‘end
of life’. A product is considered
to be eco-designed when it
has a rating of three or higher,
so all products that have been
ONE CANNOT TALK ABOUT
ROCHE BOBOIS WITHOUT
MENTIONING MAH JONG, THE
INDISPUTABLE SIGNATURE
OF ITS COLLECTIONS.determined to be ‘eco’ feature
our ‘eco-conceived’ badge.”
One cannot talk about Roche
Bobois without mentioning
another of its iconic pieces, Mah
Jong, by now the indisputable
signature of its collections.
Created by Hans Hopfer, known
as the inventor of seating
landscapes back in 1971, the
sofa set is based on the “total
freedom of function and form”,
allowing for limitless options
as you combine or stack the
seats into an armchair, sofa, or
even bed to create a space to
rest, play or lounge around in.
Avant-garde when created,
Mah Jong still stands as an
iconic piece and, over the
years, has been “dressed” by
Kenzo Takada and Jean Paul
Gaultier. “Mah Jong is not just
a statement-making design,
but it is about playing around
with colour, composition and
modularity,” says Nicolas.Roche Bobois is situated at
#01-02 Boon Siew Building,
75 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore.