The design casts aside the bland conventions that have, until recently, been hidden under flowing tablecloths. Gingham fabric, or Vichy in French, used to dress both people and tables for generations, lends the product more than just its name. This unmistakable pattern of squares has been replicated in oak, sycamore and walnut marquetry. Even if the restaurant shrouds the Vichy in a long table cloth, two slender solid oak legs will peak out cheekily, held in place by a shoe-like stand that will resist even the clumsiest of dates.
Caroline Ziegler was born 1980 in Grenoble and graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design of Reims in 2003. Born in 1977 in Annecy, Pierre Brichet graduated in 2002 as an engineer at Université Technologique de Belfort Montbéliard and then as a designer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2005.
They founded the Studio BrichetZiegler in 2010.