Background
Inga Sempé was born in 1968 as daughter of Mette Ivers, a Danish graphic artist and painter and the well-known French graphic artist Jean-Jacques Sempé.
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Inga Sempe
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Sie studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI) in Paris und passed her final exams there in 1993.
Career
She was awarded the Red Dot Design Award in 2007. Inga Sempé lives and works in Paris. In 1994 she designed for the Australian designer Marc Newson, in 1997–1999 for the French designer Andrée Putman.
From 2000 she worked for the Italian design companies Cappellini and Edra and at the same time founded her own company in Paris.
She aims for sustainable, simple, but not minimalist objects. Foreign her, function is important, and the material has to support lieutenant
„Sempé"s lamps can bei extended like accordions, the size of her suitcase prototype for the manufacturer Via, which can replace any hotel wardrobe, can be changed.“ Foreign Italian, French and Scandinavian design companies she projects furniture and fictures as well as design objects, such as for Alessi, Ligne Roset, Baccarat, Tectona, LucePlan, Moustache and the American manufacturer Artecnica. In 2003 the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris consecrated an exposition to Inga Sempé.
Achievements
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In 2000/2001 she got a scholarship for the Villa Medici, an institution of the Académie de France à Rome. In 2003 she received the 8000-Euro-Major Design Award of the City of Paris, in 2007 the Red Dot Design Award for her upholstered furniture Moël. In 2012 she was guest of honor of the Stockholm furniture fair Stockholm Furniture Fair & Northern Light Fair.
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Nationality
France
Awards
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resident at the Villa Medici Major Design Award; Red Dot; Design Award In 2000/2001 she got a scholarship for the Villa Medici, an institution of the Académie de France à Rome. In 2003 she received the 8000-Euro-Major Design Award of the City of Paris, in 2007 the Red Dot Design Award for her upholstered furniture Moël. In 2012 she was guest of honor of the Stockholm furniture fair Stockholm Furniture Fair & Northern Light Fair.resident at the Villa Medici Major Design Award; Red Dot; Design Award In 2000/2001 she got a scholarship for the Villa Medici, an institution of the Académie de France à Rome. In 2003 she received the 8000-Euro-Major Design Award of the City of Paris, in 2007 the Red Dot Design Award for her upholstered furniture Moël. In 2012 she was guest of honor of the Stockholm furniture fair Stockholm Furniture Fair & Northern Light Fair.