Brussels, Belgium
Italian furniture design brand Bonaldo collaborates with Alain Gilles and presents the Geometric Table — a large dining table that looks different depending on the point of view, for a living area with a surprising personality.
The Geometric Table is a transforming shape-shifting table that plays on perspective with a hypnotic visual effect.
“Like a sculpture, Geometric Table invites the spectators to go beyond first appearances and to ask themselves questions about their own perception of reality,” explains designer Alain Gilles.
“Together with Bonaldo, this project enabled us to experiment, to explore new directions and new creative logics.”
Geometric Table was a seemingly simple project but highly complex to realize, ensuing from the brand’s industrial abilities and its major focus on research and development, which leads to the achievement of even the most experimental, out-of-the-box projects.
This project was has been awarded a 2020 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The concept for Bonaldo’s latest new product is based on chameleon-like silhouettes, starting with the base: its four legs with drop-shaped feet appear either thick or sharp and thin, playing together to offer a different perception of their visual weight as you walk around the table, with an impressive scenic yet slender and graceful presence, given by its rounded shapes.
In Geometric Table, design research comes together with material experimentation and a strong reference to nature: the table is also available in a special hand-brushed clay finish which gives the entire frame a sculptural look as if carved out of a single block of sandstone emphasizing its deep roots with the earth.
This particular processing made it possible to obtain a terracotta-colored version, inspired by natural hues. The other materials available range from marble to solid wood or ceramic in polished, matt, or elegant silk finish.
Geometric Table brings together extremely distinctive elements capable of enhancing functionality, comfort, and aesthetics: from the material to the color, from the harmonious shapes it comes in – in both the barrel-shaped and the round versions – to the multiple available dimensions.
Project: Geometric Table
Designers: Alain Gilles
Manufacturer: Bonaldo
