As some of you may know, this year, Ligne Roset is joyfully blowing out its 150 candles. It is also a special year for Elle Decoration who is celebrating its 21st anniversary.
As part of the celebrations, Chaplins are offering 21% off the entire range of Pumpkin sofas, armchairs and ottomans.
This offer is valid from the 1st September to 5th October 2010 to all customers who bring in the promotion page featured in the October issue of Elle Decoration magazine.
FORMA Italia is the innovative furniture line for your pets designed and made in Italy with the most original results for those who aspire to the very highest standard of living.
FORMA Italia is made by Chiavari. The Italian company has been active in the international market since 1969 producing bespoke luxury furniture and interiors. That is why each piece has been conceived with the same criteria as those applied in the making of luxurious furniture:
Design: new and elegant
Quality: exclusive products manufactured with great attention to detail
Safety: materials are chosen respecting pets' health and the environment
Comfort and health: for the pets
Customization: each FORMA Italia® piece can be customized in dimensions and materials or also custom-made following the client's requirements.
Finally a line of products for those who love style and their pets.
The Italian manufacturer Arflex, fonded in 1947, is surely one of these companies which put Italy on the world’s design map. None other than Marco Zanuso one of the very first architects involved with the systems of product industrialization began – together with a group of technicians coming from Pirelli – to experiment the use of foam rubber and elastic tapes for the furniture brand. Today Arflex is one of the most experienced manufacturer in this field. This year’s collection includes this family of upholstery designed by Cini Boeri. ‘Pecorelle’ is composed of a wooden structure, covered by non-deformable shaped polyurethane with differentiated density, a wooden backrest structure with reinforced elastic straps and legs in metal. The quilted cover is completely removable.
Italian manufacturer Tecno have won a 2010 Red Dot Award of high design quality, for their Beta workplace system of furniture that was designed by Pierandrei Associati.
With its outstanding and innovative design, beta by Tecno managed to impress the jury of one of the most prestigious international design competitions. In the “red dot award: product design 2010” beta was awarded the “red dot” quality label for high design quality by the jury consisting of top-class experts.
Beta, which springs from an ethnographic research on the workplace from the design of Pierandrei Associati and from the technological skills of Tecno, is an operating system designed to meet the requirements of a creative office and to grant a new shape to space, while adjusting to people’s behaviours and evolving over time.
The creative office represents the novelty in workspaces. By reducing repetitive tasks and by focusing on experience sharing, today’s offices are contemporary -agoras-, where different working styles overlap and where the individual’s wellbeing turns into working performance.
Having a space where to work on one’s own, relax not only during breaks, present one’s work also in informal meetings, are still all main features of the contemporary office we have all become familiar with. Beta, which draws inspiration from the evolution logic of nature, is able to meet these requirements, and by means of a range of “fluid and flexible” elements, it makes workplace reconfiguration and renewal easier. Rather than being a plain system, it is an actual environment, with a non-linear growth logic, which generates spaces without simply filling them.
Whereas, from a conceptual point of view, the features on which beta works are space, time and mankind, from a functional point of view, beta is conceived to contain, display and support. Thanks to its components, it is able to create different layouts, ranging from the most intensive ones to the most evolved ones, by handling primary factors – such as privacy, noise and environmental features – in a way that differs from traditional systems, and at the same time create greater interaction among people.
The beta system combines an advanced technology and recyclable materials (including wrapping), with a natural logic, which allows the system to develop over time. Indeed beta’s construction features make it possible, at the end of the product’s life or depending on maintenance programmes, to simply replace certain components, so as to adjust the system to the new requirements and bring the product back to fully functional conditions.
The system is made up by three product families, which are: worktops (desks), containers (backbone) and accessories. The composition logic for these components is aimed at a customised space configuration and at maximum enjoyment, also by disabled users. The whole office created by beta appears as a space created around man.
When designing for Established & Sons and Venini, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's idea was to light up a voluminous round glass structure that would be supported by a delicate aluminum stick. They worked on the precariousness of the equilibrium: there is one and only, sharp point of contact, no fixation, as if the glass was in its originate state, hanging insecurely from the blowing pipe. Ronan and Erwan wanted to work on the vulnerability of the object. What was also interesting to them was the mix of techniques to make the three elements that craft this lamp: the base and the stick are industrially made in opposition to the glass that has been blown using old tradition methods. The colour of the Lighthouse varies in function of the Murano glass colour palette, from light pink to vibrant orange. The base is marble.
Since 1936 Bonaldo has produced creative, elegant, quality objects that convey a profound sense of the experience that they fully embody.
The company has always been involved in experimentation: sixty years ago it began with its range of tubular metal applications and today it conducts wide-ranging research into plastics, the use of different alloys and the use of materials such as pressure cast aluminium, flexible cold-pressed polyurethane and propylene.
The company has a high-tech focus, however it entrusts fundamental planning and production stages to human skill. Output totally reflects Italian tastes and lifestyle, something unique to Italy that cannot be reproduced elsewhere, but which interacts with various international trends in contemporary design.
Ron Arad and Karim Rashid, Mauro Lipparini, Toshiyuki Kita and Denis Santachiara, D’Urbino and Lomazzi and Giuseppe Viganò are just some of the company’s famous partners in redefining the national design scene; with a range of models that have a great visual impact.
This mission and way of working is garnering increasing recognition from public and arts and business professionals, through the award of numerous international prizes.
Chaplins believe that Bonaldo continues to be one of the leading players in Italian design and production.
Click here to view the Bonaldo Furniture Collection or contact the showroom on 020 8421 1779 for further information and prices.
In tribute to Arne Jacobsen and one of his architectural masterpieces, the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, Fritz Hansen introduced the Egg chair for the first time with a base in warm grey and complimenting upholstery in earth and sand tones. The new colours add an original dimension to the classic design, offering an alternative solution for the modern living environments.
We are currently offering 20% off this wonderful chair but be quick as we only have a few remaining in stock for immediate delivery.
WAS £3,545.00 | NOW £2,835.00 (You save £710.00)
The chair is currently on display in our showroom but can also be ordered over the phone (020 8421 1779) or via our ONLINE STORE. Click here for further details.
The classic Tavolo Con Ruote table by Gae Aulenti which was selected by The Museum of Modern Art, New York is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year.
As a special promotion, Fontana Arte are supplying a total of 400 Limited Edition pieces (120cm square size), which are Signed and Numbered. Currently available for £1,120.00 but be warned as numbers go down, the price may increase accordingly.
