STRIPES / LIMITED EDITION
BONALDO
The "Stripes" table is the Limited Edition of the Tracks table with the red and white stripes.
The “Tracks” tables are all about movement, all about assuming the fact that this is an extendable table and that its architecture and logic can be put forward in order to create a graphic and architectural dialogue within the piece itself.
The tracks are basically the two parallel axes that define the logic of the piece and act as the path for the extensions, just like tracks for a train.
The table is also a discussion between visibility and invisibility, weight and weightlessness, cold and warm with the use of a combination of very different materials that convey different and contrasted feelings...
Depending on how one plays with the different structural elements of the table it will take on different personalities. By either playing with the essence of the wood used, the finish of the metal “tracks” or the transparency of the glass when using clear or smoked glass.
As for this special, more artistic, version with the metal bares treated with red & white stripes they refer to the original source of inspiration: the railroad crossing gates, signage found on construction sites, the graphic used in the enchanted circus world, or the Memphis movement as far as the furniture world is concerned...

the "Stripes" table is the Limited Edition of the Tracks table with the red and white stripes.

it further emphasizes the movement and transformation that was already present on the Tracks table.

It shows the origin of the concept of the Tracks table: railroad crossing gates, signage found on construction sites, graphics found in circus world....

... but it also takes clues from the post-modernist Memphis movement.

a strong graphic statement !

in the factory. The very sample, with the hand-painted red & white stripes.

sketching the table..

sketch and sources of inspirations.

at the "Gallery Via Garibaldi 12" in Genova, Italy.

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )

at the exposition "Dialogue" held during Design September (Brussels, Belgium )