French designer Inga Sempe graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle, Paris) in 1993. From 2000 till 2001 she was scholarship holder at the Villa Medici, Academie de France in Rome and opened her own studio the same year. In the beginning, she collaborated with the Italian companies Cappellini and Edra. Now Sempe works among others with Scandinavian, Italian and French companies such as HAY, Ligne Roset, Westberg, Alessi, LucePlan, Mutina, Roros, Moustache, Svenskt Tenn and Garsnas. She lives and works in Paris assisted by two other designers.