195 - Inessa Hansch

Inessa Hansch Seguin Single Bench Preformed, triple-folded formwork panel, melamine resin. Limited edition of 30 pieces by 6+2 Edition Île Seguin Project, 2010 H45 L150 P60 cm Inessa Hansch’s Seguin collection was designed for the temporary garden project on Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt. Inspired by Gerrit Rietveld’s rustic 1940s garden furniture, Inessa designed a line of outdoor furniture made from weather-resistant wood panels. The furniture evokes the minimalist style of Donald Judd’s designs, the simplicity of Enzo Mari’s self-produced furniture, and the understated elegance of the church benches designed by the Dutch Benedictine monk Dom Hans Van der Laan. Inessa Hansch A graduate of the Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Saint-Luc in Brussels, Inessa Hansch founded her firm in Paris in 2007. A professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design since 2014, she leads a studio dedicated to the development of public spaces, which she views as a tool for shaping the built environment. Her practice operates on various scales, with projects ranging from furniture and buildings to urban planning. Following a unique approach, she explores the capacity of any structure to awaken an awareness of space. Frequently collaborating with landscape architects from the very beginning of projects, Hansch seeks to anchor each built form within its environment to reveal the site’s specific character and true potential. Her approach to structuring space is the subject of a long-standing artistic collaboration with the painter Susanne Kühn, with whom she has created numerous three-dimensional works.