Togo turns 50
Ligne Roset celebrates the Togo 50th anniversary
Designed by Michel Ducaroy in the same year as the launch of the Ligne Roset brand, it has always been produced in the factories in Briord, a small village in the Bugey region which nestles in the foothills of the Jura mountains, France.
« A tube of toothpaste folded back on itself like a stovepipe and closed at both ends. »
Michel Ducaroy, Togo designer
Since 1973, Togo has achieved sales of close to 1.5 million pieces in 72 countries around the world.
A symbol of the changing times post 1968 – “trouver la plage sous les pavés” (literally, “finding the beach beneath the paving stones” – a saying used to suggest that the possibilities are endless) – Togo is also the fruit of Michel Ducaroy’s reflections on the almost limitless possibilities offered by new materials such as quality foams and polyester quilting.
Togo Fireside Chair in La Toile du Peintre by Pierre Frey
Special editions
For its 50th anniversary, Togo is dressing up in two limited-edition coverings: Atom by Kvadrat and La Toile du Peintre by Pierre Frey.
With La Toile du Peintre by Pierre Frey, Togo is adorned with a contemporary tapestry with a large graphic pattern and vibrant colours that reinterprets a work by painter Heather Chontos. Its scale, its joyful and free stroke make this fabric an ode to artistic expression that will energise interiors.
The Togo fireside chair in La Toile du Peintre is now on display at Ligne Roset Auckland. Available in the fireside chair, footstool, small settee and large settee; we have limited stocks available for immediate delivery and additional forward orders can be placed up until 20 December 2023.
Also this year a strictly limited edition of 878 pieces of Togo are available worldwide in the Atom fabric, with colours of birch, labradorite and confetti, imagined by the Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons for Kvadrat. Ligne Roset Auckland has limited stocks pre-ordered for arrival from October 2023.
Atom is a vibrant and experimental bouclé fabric with no visible repeat. It is inspired by fragments of pointillist landscapes in expressionist paintings. The textile features speckles of colour that seem randomly scattered across its surface. Bold, contrasting yarns show Simons’ characteristic flair with colour.
Togo Fireside Chairs in Atom by Kvadrat (from left to right: Confetti, Labradorite and Birch)
Zoom on La Toile du Peintre
The painter and sculpter Heather Chontos works impulsively and spontaneously. Her movements are powerful. Her graphic compositions combine dynamism, intense colors and organic forms. She feels the world with strength and devotes an unconditional love to light.
To paint, the artist turns objects away from their original use and applies paint with old credit cards, pieces of broken glass or simply draws and scratches the surface of the canvas with the paint tube itself. These materials allow her to draw long penetrating lines as well as large fields of saturated color. She applies her paint to thick, vintage canvases, which she particularly appreciates for their touch and material effect.
