Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance

Bernhardt Design’s Modern Family collection has grown from a close family of five to an extended family of 13. First introduced in 2016, Modern Family now has another eight members, which Bernhardt debuted at ICFF in May. Designed by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, Modern Family is a collection of furniture united by spirit rather than appearance. It includes a variety of seating...

A common childhood memory is of time spent playing outdoors and the sense of wonder and adventure the natural world inspired. As French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance demonstrates  with his new Colours Collection of upholstered benches for Bernhardt Design, these simple childhood memories can provide fertile ground for exciting new ideas. “When I was young, I loved playing in streams and...

Colours designed by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Bernhardt Design.

John M. Bernhardt takes any notion you may have about what a lumberjack should be and turns it completely on its head. He wasn’t beefy and brawny with bulging biceps and dodgy tattoos. He didn’t wear a beanie. Heck, he didn’t even own a red flannelette shirt. But what he lacked in stereotypes, he more than made up for as...

Gardens have long been a source of inspiration. Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost published in 1667, was inspired by the Garden of Eden…a place which may or may not have existed somewhere in Iranian Azerbaijan, or downtown Bankstown. So it should come as no surprise that the eccentric Frenchman Bernard Forestier should be inspired by the formal gardens he discovered...