Bergen, Norway

Lars Beller Fjetland partners with Hydro to create a one-of-a-kind bench inspired by transportation and Italian cuisine.

Design features that normally would drive both cost and production time up, can simply be implemented into the extrusion tool, allowing more room to play with form and expression.

“The design is very much a culmination of everything I appreciate from planes, trains, and buses that were designed in the 1930s-1970s to brutalist architecture and last but not least – Pasta!”

Lightweight, strong, highly durable, and available in custom lengths and heights, Bello! was conceived as an indoor/outdoor seating solution with public transportation hubs in mind.

The internal support structure of the bench allows for additions such as tables, lamps, and chargers to be easily integrated, as well as enabling multiple benches to be seamlessly joined together.

Bello! demonstrates aluminum’s potential as a practical and more sustainable design material.

With up to 80% of a product’s environmental footprint determined during the design phase, Hydro has instituted a program of collaboration with designers such as Lars Beller Fjetland in order to drive innovation in the design industry and encourage the creation of more sustainable products in recyclable aluminum. 

Because Bello! can be produced in a wide spectrum of different colors using natural anodizing, it can be customized to suit the style of any setting, domestic, municipal, or commercial.

Project: Bello! Bench
Designer: Lars Beller Fjetland
Manufacturer: Norsk Hydro ASA
Photographs: Courtesy of Norsk Hydro ASA