Croisière - Beau Rivage Wooden Chair

Name: Croisière - Beau Rivage Wooden Chair
Brand: Rudy Guénaire
Price: 3000 EUR
Availability: InStock

by Rudy Guénaire

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The Beau Rivage Wooden Chair is a cantilevered chair by Rudy Guénaire, from the Croisière collection.

Its frame is a continuous tube of chrome-plated steel, bent into a U form and cantilevered so the seat is held in tension without rear legs. The steel traces a closed circuit: rising at the front, curving back to form the backrest, and descending again to the floor. The seat is a curved wooden panel in stained ash, its profile shaped to accommodate the body without additional cushioning.

The ash is finished in a deep reddish-brown stain that contrasts with the brightness of the chrome. The material is present as both structure and surface, no upholstery interposed between the sitter and the wood.

The Beau Rivage Wooden Chair occupies the same formal ground as the Upholstered version, both drawing from the Bauhaus cantilever vocabulary defined by Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s. For the Croisière collection, Rudy Guénaire applies this reference without nostalgic distance, making chairs that function in contemporary residential and hospitality spaces on their own terms.

W 50 x D 47.5 x H 66 cm

W 19.69 x D 18.7 x H 25.98 in

Materials: Structure: metal\nSeat: Stained ash

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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