In the living area, a Ligne Roset sofa accompanies a vintage Adolf Loos coffee table. The 2003 photograph Pond Garden is by Stephen Waddell.

New York firm MCDC designed littleBits’s Chelsea office, which is outfitted with Togo sofas from Ligne Roset and an overhead fixture by Tech Lighting. The shelves hold books and play materials like Legos and K’nex.

For Ligne Roset's Hellobye console, designer Marion Steinmetz focused on the details. A mirror is located on a flap door that's attached via leather straps and a side drawer keeps essential items at arm's reach. The piece features a black-stained ash veneer and steel frame.

The living room is home to two Bouroullec Brothers designs: the Facett sofa for Ligne Roset, and the Slow chair for Vitra.

Ligne Roset now offers a new chaise longue to complement the Togo line. Like its brethren, the chaise comes in 899 colors of fabric and leather.

A technician in a ventilator mask who sprays the wood with a transparent stain or varnish.

Any wood waste generated in Ligne Roset’s manufacturing process is used to heat the company’s factories in the winter. Leather scraps are sold to make boots and wallets.

Stacks of foam await their fates.

When an order comes in, workers feed the wood into a high-tech preprogrammed machine that mills it into ten square-sided posts and drills holes where the pieces will connect.

The metal Grillage chair on the deck is by François Azambourg for Ligne Roset.

Fold table by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset Instead of run-of-the-mill nesting tables, consider a set of pivoting pieces that tuck together neatly when in stealth mode.

2008 Multiplug lamp, designed for Ligne Roset.

Custom kitchen cabinets designed by Pulltab and fabricated by Maciek Winiarczyk hold mostly vintage ironstone that Geiger has found at flea markets and estate sales over the past 20 years. "I love white," she says, "because I think food always looks better on it." She also collects vintage wooden cutting boards, shown resting against the marble tile backsplash from Stone Source.

Fraher’s in-house joinery company designed the kitchen cabinets. The majority of the furniture — including the dining table and chairs — is Ligne Roset.

The family room contains furniture reminiscent of Ligne Roset’s Togo collection and a CH 07 egg-carton lamp by Salvadoran designer Eugenio Menjívar.

The physically taxing job of assembling the final product is most frequently handled by men in the factory, but Laurence is a nimble, notable exception. After assembling the sofa and fluffing the cover she readies it for shipping and boxes it up.

Despite its relatively simple-looking form, the Ruché is a highly labor-intensive piece of furniture, requiring a diverse range of craftspeople and talents.

Sous Mon Arbre lamp by Florian Brillet for Ligne Roset, $665 The ash-and-lacquered-aluminum light sports a rustproof steel hook that can be hung from a tree branch.

Hampton low table by Eric Jourdan for Ligne Roset Referencing Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, this architectural piece marries cherrywood and laminated glass.

Another vaunted design name that is getting a fresh look is that of Pierre Paulin, courtesy of Ligne Roset. The items in the collection, nine in all, are mostly re-issues of Paulin’s original designs from the 1950s on. The one exception is La Bibliothèque Fil, a steel-wire shelving system that Paulin designed for his own use in the early 1980s. This is the first time the piece has been in production, and it will be available in the US market this summer.

Facett armchair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Ligne Roset, from $2,810 No home is complete without a piece by the prolific French brothers. We nominate this trim, origami-inspired armchair.

Sewers stitch zippers on to the cover’s edges to enable it to attach securely to the wooden sofa frame.

Then the pieces get stretched, quilted, and joined by a cavalcade of sewers, each with their own discrete task.

A seamstress mans the automated Gerber Cutter, which cuts patterns precisely and in a way that minimizes wasted fabric.

A technician sprays a sheet of pliable purple memory foam with a water-based adhesive and then carefully folds it over the other two foam layers and a steel spring grill to complete the backrest.

Each hue indicates a different density and use.

Bordering the dining room is an entry courtyard and a partially open bookcase wall, custom designed and fabricated in Dovetail’s own wood and metal shop. Daltile Season Wood porcelain tile offers tonal contrast with Ligne Roset Eaton dining table and Quantum wood window frames. Eames Molded Plastic chairs and Tom Dixon Felt pendant lights complete the space.

Here's the room with the doors fully opened. The sofa is by Ligne Roset.

Homeowner Jennifer Roy takes advantage of her wired kitchen. LEM Piston bar stools by Shin and Tomoko Azumi; custom dining table; chairs by Ligne Roset.

The dining room features Design Within Reach chairs, a Ligne Roset table, and a chandelier from Apparatus.

Located just off the kitchen, this room was originally designed for dining—the adjustable Ligne Roset Crescendo coffee table can be raised to 28.75 inches—but most days Bill and Abbie prefer to eat outside or at their casual Caesarstone-topped kitchen island. Today the space serves as a sunny reading spot and guest room, with a convertible futon (from Ligne Roset, since discontinued) and a set of leather-and-steel Paulistano armchairs from Design Within Reach.

In describing their vision for the interior, Jeff and Tamara emphasized two things: sophistication and timelessness. Steel elements allude to standing the test of time and the material is incorporated into some pieces of the furniture like this Van Dyke dining table from Minotti. The dining table can comfortably seat 14 people with Ligne Roset dining chairs.

Wall coverings by Liora Manné—they resemble felt but are made with intricately layered acrylic or polyester fibers—add boldly patterned splashes of color to the hallways, which are furnished with Ottoman armchairs by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Ligne Roset.

It might not make you popular with your contractor, but for a more streamlined look, Chris recommends forgoing trim. "It lends a clean look with less visual clutter," the architect says. In their house, the doors, lights, cabinetry, and even wall sockets (all 22 by Bocci) are installed without trim. This allows the planar surfaces to recede and do their jobs without unnecessarily distracting the eye.