of top end furniture . 1 roche bobois industry retail founded 1960 founder the roche and chouchan families products furniture operating income 392 million euros 2012 number of employees 800 website roche bobois site history edit in 1950 having become acquainted at the copenhagen furniture fair philippe and fran ois roche and jean claude and patrick chouchan joined forces to import scandinavian furniture to paris . soon after they added scandinavian giftware such as textiles tableware tapestries to their furniture ranges . known as complementary objects these accessories were sold in adjoining boutiques . 1961 the first joint national advertising campaign was launched in elle magazine . two campaigns a year have been created every year since over a period of nearly 50 years . creation of the first joint catalogue and development of a joint national network of franchises based on retail alone with no ownership of manufacturing resource a revolutionary business model at the time . 1965 opening of the first showroom outside france in belgium . in 1970 philippe roche and colleagues meet designer hans hopfer while on a trip to germany . the latter s design for a sofa that allows you to live at ground level initially named lounge has under its newer name mah jong been roche bobois s best selling sofa design since 1990 . 1973 opening of the first showroom in canada . 1974 opening of the first roche bobois showroom in the us 2 and in spain . 1980s the roche bobois offering is extended with the development of the provinciales collection aimed at new owners of country homes 1990s development of the voyages collection created in response to the demand for ethnic style furniture 1995 opening of the first showroom in italy . beginning of the 21st century two developments for roche bobois increased international development of a network of showrooms development of partnerships with designers and architects who start to design pieces specifically for roche bobois 2004 the first showroom in china is opened . the 100th showroom abroad is opened . 2009 a series of theme based design competitions aimed at supporting emerging talent is launched . the first competition organised in china results in the design and manufacture of the gas injection moulded ava 3 created by a chinese designer and fabricated by an italian manufacturer . subsequently competitions have taken place in morocco and most recently the uk winner to be announced shortly . december 2011 monsieur philippe roche co founder of the roche bobois brand of furniture died aged 77 . 4 since 2011 roche bobois has launched a new collection every six months . the brand has 250 showrooms 80 of which are corporate owned located in 45 countries . 2012 is the year of international growth for the first time in its history roche bobois reports more than 50 % of turnover achieved abroad notably in north america . having been present in this region since 1974 the north america network becomes the second largest with the new york madison store becoming the most important in the world in terms of sales . in 2013 roche bobois further reinforces its international presence with a scheduled programme of 15 new showroom openings in more than 10 countries including singapore 5 colombia 6 indonesia and bulgaria . designers edit roche bobois works in collaboration with a number of designers and architects to create its collections . in the 1980s hans hopfer and italian architect luigi gorgoni worked with the brand . again in the 2000s collaborations include the m tropolis collection created by iosa ghini to celebrate roche bobois s 40th anniversary the ping pong collection by paola navone the com te sofa by vladimir kagan the rive droite collection by christophe delcourt who subsequently created the legend bookcase the speed up range by sacha lakic 7 cute cut coffee tables by c dric ragot the furtif collection by daniel rode the assemblage collection by st phan lebrun the ora ito collection of furniture 8 a number of these collections were presented at the mobi boom exhibition at the mus e des arts d coratifs of paris . 9 fashion designers too have added their mark to roche bobois kenzo missoni ungaro jean paul gaultier 10 and sonia rykiel . notes and references edit the information on this page is partially translated from the equivalent page in french fr roche bobois licensed under the creative commons attribution sharealike 11 . history of contributions can be checked here 12 boston design guide 1 new york times 2 design milk.com 3 zoominfo.com 4 indesignlive.sg 5 cpp luxury.com 6 leblogdeco.fr 7 archiproducts.com 8 the guardian.com 9 elle decor.com 10 design portal france portal authority control worldcat identities viaf 141484274 lccn no00066264 sudoc 150089767 bnf cb11879942q data retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title roche bobois & oldid 689797315 categories furniture manufacturershidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterswikipedia 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