B&B Italia home furniture by Monica Armani nods to Jackie O
Impressed by 1960s glamour, Monica Armani’s latest patterns for B&B Italia combine luxury, harmony and equilibrium
The Trento-centered Italian architect and designer Monica Armani seemed back in time to a particularly glitzy interval to generate her new household of ‘Allure O’ tables and small ‘Flair O’ armchair, observed listed here in advance of their presentation at Salone del Mobile. The designs’ ‘light, exact, harmonious and long lasting volumes evoke the excellent glamour of the 1960s’, and as their names advise, 1 of the decade’s most popular type icons, Jackie O.
‘I like her glamorous style it’s always exact, hardly ever extreme,’ clarifies Armani. ‘She’s the interpreter of what I think about legitimate luxury: the lookup for element, harmony and stability.’ Recalling the elliptical geometric shapes of the designer’s 2017 ‘Madison’ mirror, alone impressed by Jackie O’s signature sunglasses, the new sequence of tables and armchair attribute likewise graceful and sinuous traces.
Made in Italy, the ‘Allure O’ is accessible with a sq. or rectangular prime, both equally with bevelled edges, which sit on a properly proportioned truncated pyramid foundation. Just about every structure will come in two dimensions, and is available in possibly good gentle and black oak, as very well as a selection of glossy and matt painted finishes in 18 different shades. If you’re emotion notably groovy, you could also blend and match finishes to develop a layout with a contrasting leading and base or else, you could boost the top rated with a slab of Carrara white marble, Marquina black marble or black glass.
Along with ‘Allure O’ arrives the matching ‘Flair O’ armchair, which features the similar truncated cone foundation and rounded edges, and can be upholstered in any of the myriad materials in the B&B Italia collection. This upholstery embraces the ‘Flair O’ like a personalized accommodate, covering it fully from the seat to the foundation. The swivel chair also features an automatic return mechanism that will make it go back again to its primary position as before long as someone gets up from the chair.
‘I dream of having evening meal on a full black “Allure O” with a Marquina marble top rated, in a penthouse overlooking the metropolis skyline, with a best and coordinated mise en put, sipping a glass of Ferrari Trento DOC and making the most of a major white fish in salt,’ claims Armani. Appears like the excellent night in. §