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Rudy Guénaire
Vaporetto to Murano Armchair
Armchairs · Collection Croisière
Created for Monde Singulier
€9.000
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The label
W 39.4 × D 23.6 × H 32.7 in
The story
The Vaporetto to Murano Armchair is a corner seat by Rudy Guénaire, from the Croisière collection.
Its form is built on a rectangular wooden base in deep stained hardwood, with a hexagonal seat cushion set at a slight angular offset from the frame. The backrest is composed of three horizontal cylindrical bolsters in graduated beige and taupe fabrics, each wrapped individually to hold its tubular profile. The layered bolsters create a textile rhythm that reads against the angular geometry of the wood.
The upholstery throughout is mohair velvet, hand-wrapped over each bolster to maintain shape without visible seaming. The wood frame is finished in the same deep reddish-brown varnish that runs through the Croisière line.
The armchair shares its formal vocabulary with the bench versions of the Vaporetto to Murano series, adapting the modular seating logic of the Croisière collection into a single corner unit. It works freestanding or as part of a larger seating arrangement, maintaining the visual coherence of Rudy Guénaire's travel-inflected collection.
About Rudy Guénaire
Rudy Guénaire draws everything by hand. No 3D software, no renderings, just pencil on paper, from floor plans to furniture to napkin holders. It is the most legible fact about how he works, and it shapes what his spaces feel like: particular, considered, resistant to the generic.
He came to design sideways. A graduate of HEC, he co-founded PNY (Paris New York) in 2012 as a restaurateur, and it was through building out successive PNY locations across Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, and Bordeaux that he discovered a talent for interior design. Working alongside architects CUT and Bernard Dubois sharpened that instinct further. In 2021, he formalized the practice as Studio Night Flight, a name taken from Saint-Exupéry.
The studio's work spans restaurants, residences, and bespoke furniture and lighting. Matsuri (Paris 16e, 2024) fuses California, Japan, and Blade Runner references into a complete rebranding. Le Belvédère (Crillon-le-Brave, 2024) situates architecture inside a Provençal landscape. Each project begins with the same question: what story does this space tell?
His stated influences run to Frank Lloyd Wright's engagement with nature, John Lautner's wood structures, and a long list of films, Lawrence of Arabia among the first he cites. The aesthetic that emerges is soft and nostalgic, referencing cinema and literature without quoting either directly. AD Germany named him among its 20 most promising talents in 2024.
Rudy Guénaire's work is available on Monde Singulier, where his custom furniture and lighting objects offer a way into that cinematic sensibility at the object scale.
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Delivery and terms
Every piece is packed and shipped under insurance, from the workshop to you. White glove delivery (unpacking, installation, packaging removal) is available on request. Delivery is not charged at checkout: we send you a quote within 24 business hours of your order. You have 5 days to accept and pay it (secure payment link or bank transfer), otherwise your order is cancelled and fully refunded.
Tax-free export price. Import duties and local taxes, if any, are paid by the buyer. Delivery quoted within 24 business hours.
As our pieces are made to order or one of a kind, they cannot be returned or exchanged.