Bonaldo

ITALY

Founded in 1936
Since 1936 the Bonaldo production range has offered creative and sophisticated quality items that express a profound sense of an experience whose memory they retain in full. Ron Arad, Karim Rashid and Denis Santachiara are some of the designers who have worked with the company over the years.

Bonaldo S.p.a.
Via Straelle, 3
35010 PD Villanova
ITALY
T +39 049 9299011
F +39 049 9299000
[email protected]

BONALDO

Courtesy Alain Gilles / The Studio

'Big Table'

D E S I G N E R
Alain Gilles

P R O D U C E R
Bonaldo, Italy
2009

M A T E R I A L A N D D I M E N S I O N S
metal + walnut
250 cm - 100 cm - 74 cm and 300 cm - 100 cm- 74 cm

A strong personality, always in movement, always trying to put one foot in front of the other. As if it were walking, each foot stretches to reach further away. Whatever the angles, it always looks strikingly different from one point of view to another, as if you could never really grab it.
It has been sculpted in 3D by the hand rather than by the pure logic of the computer. Even though it is a large functional table, and follows some strict rules, all the legs have their own characteristics and have been positioned and oriented manually in order to give the whole structure a warmer and more human feeling.
A mix of rather traditional materials, steel and wood, give a rather unexpected and fresh product (the top is also available in lacquered glass). The legs are made of steel plates that have been laser cut and folded. All the legs have a different width, and have been cut and bend in order to reveal different tonalities of their own colour, in order to play with shadows. As for the angled cuts in the legs, they increase this ever changing perception of a product, that looks drastically different from one side to the other; they also add detail to the piece and give it a much lighter feel.
The metal legs can then become of field of experimentation for all sorts of colour combinations, thus giving birth to a more experimental or a more traditional table.

Courtesy Bonaldo

'Tectonic' Side Table

D E S I G N E R
Alain Gilles

P R O D U C E R
Bonaldo, Italy
2008

M A T E R I A L A N D D I M E N S I O N S
powdercoated steel
width: 51,2 cm - length: 43,4 cm - height: 43,5cm

The 'Tectonic' table series is based on the idea of movement within the construction of its shape but also the ability to create unexpected freeform geometry by shifting and juxtaposing several small tables one next to the other. Hence, these tables are a combination between a plastic and a graphic approach.
The concept comes from the will to create pieces of furniture that are non-static, but also to give the end user the possibility to created their own story and, in a way, their own design when playing with several pieces.
The tables are either very graphic when treated as wire frame structures and more straight forward when used with a plain top. It is obvious that one can also play with the notion of opened and closed spaces by mixing them all together.
When presented as a wire frame, while looking from above, one can also clearly read in the movement the shape of a rose. So these pieces, in their very simplicity, aim both at speaking to our geometric and Cartesian side but also to our more romantic side.
The high and low versions are available with both a wire mesh tabletop or a plain metal one.
The Tectonic Tables have been awarded the 'Henry van de Velde Label' 2008.

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