Isabelle Rigal is a designer and art director born in Paris, where she is based and teaches design at the I.D.E.A. institute. She graduated from the Saint Luc school of art in Belgium in 1984 and in 1991 received the Leonardo da Vinci design prize. Her practice spans exhibition stands, factory renovations, residences, restaurants and retail spaces, as well as furniture and one-off pieces for galleries and private clients.
For Riva 1920 she designed a family of sculptural pieces in solid cedar, each carved from a single block. The Circus Stool and Circus Dining Table stack cone, sphere and cone; the Tornado Stool and Tornado Dining Table layer volumes in the spiral of a tornado. The Miss Champagne Stool takes the form of an oversized Champagne cork.
