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Rudy Guénaire
Vaporetto to Murano Double Bench
Sofas · Collection Croisière
Created for Monde Singulier
€12.000
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The label
W 39.4 × D 47.2 × H 32.7 in
The story
The Vaporetto to Murano Double Bench is a two-seat banquette by Rudy Guénaire, from the Croisière collection.
Its structure is built from dark stained hardwood in a deep reddish-brown finish, rising through a geometric stepped frame to an integrated backrest. Hexagonal seat cushions sit at different heights along the structure, their layered profiles recalling the built-in seating of ocean liner saloons. Light beige and cream fabrics play against the warmth of the wood.
The upholstery is mohair velvet, a material that shifts tone across its pile, reading warm taupe in low light and closer to ivory in full daylight. The wooden frame is varnished and precisely fitted, the backrest raised as a distinct tier above the seat level.
The Croisière collection draws on Rudy Guénaire's interest in travel aesthetics from an earlier century: the crossings, cabins, and transit spaces of ocean liners and early long-haul aviation. The bench takes its name from the vaporetto service connecting Venice to Murano, a short crossing charged with centuries of craft history.
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.