Inga Sempé

Inga Sempé (born 1968) is a French designer and constructor of technical items, who designs furniture, lamps and other design objects for manufacturers like Ligne Roset, Alessi und Baccarat. She was awarded the Red Dot Design Award in 2007.

Life

Inga Sempé was born in 1968 as daughter of Mette Ivers, a Danish graphic artist and painter and the well-known French graphic artist Jean-Jacques Sempé. Sie studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI) in Paris und passed her final exams there in 1993. She is married to the designer Ronan Bouroullec and has two children. Inga Sempé lives and works in Paris.

Career

In 1994 she designed for the Australian designer Marc Newson, in 1997–1999 for the French designer Andrée Putman. From 2000 she worked for the Italian design companies Cappellini and Edra and at the same time founded her own company in Paris. She aims for sustainable, simple, but not minimalist objects.

For her, function is important, and the material has to support it. „Sempé's lamps can bei extended like accordions, the size of her suitcase prototype for the manufacturer Via, which can replace any hotel wardrobe, can be changed.“ For Italian, French and Scandinavian design companies she projects furniture and fictures as well as design objects, such as for Alessi, Ligne Roset, Baccarat, Tectona, LucePlan, Moustache and the American manufacturer Artecnica.