“Right you are (if you think so),” according to the wisdom of Luigi Pirandello. The world is a little like the way you look at it; the eyes of the observer create images that are free and personal. Bonaldo ironically interprets this thought by playing with perspective and with roles. It, therefore, creates an upside-down world, where the base of a table is made up of what would normally be positioned on top of it, and the blanket of bed becomes its frame. Thus, thanks to the intuition of designers Alessandro Busana and Roberto Paoli, Bonaldo presents its Cop table and Blanket bed: products where creativity and functionality merge to furnish our homes with style and irony.
Conviviality, which is the primary function of any table, is expressed with irony in this design by Roberto Paoli: in everyday life, tables are laid with various objects that cover their surface, whereas in Cop the table top is a stretch of water, where the same objects are overturned to form its original base. Stylized elements inspired by bottles, precious stemmed and champagne glasses, in various shapes and sizes and immediately struck even if in their unusual positioning. The top is the neutral element yet at the same time it is the dividing line of a world which is reflected.
The base of the Cop table is in painted metal, in a single color or a combination of different hues. The table top is available in wood, glass or ceramic, either rectangular with beveled corners, or round. Base in one-colour or multi-colour painted metal Table top in various wood finishes, in glass or ceramic.
Warmth, softness and a sense of protection are the feelings which inspired the Blanket bed designed by Alessandro Busana for Bonaldo. The roles have been inverted, and the blanket has been transformed from mere accessory to absolute protagonist. Indeed, a large, soft quilt makes up the base of this bed, supporting the mattress and, from the foot of the bed, it has been folded over thus forming the headrest.
“The bed is an object we interact with for an extended period and with the most of our body,” explains designer Alessandro Busana. “Making it comfortable not only materially but also regarding perception seemed to me an essential starting point. Hence the choice of a blanket, considering the symbol it represents in the collective imagination”. The almost archetypal nature of this concept makes Blanket an iconographic bed immediately recognizable, one that is capable of playing the starring role and arousing emotions through a simple yet extraordinary rolled up blanket.
