GHIDINI1961 – 2024 COLLECTION (PART 2)

Images courtesy of Ghidini1961

Stefano Giovannoni, Paolo Rizzatto, Robert Stadler

Ghidini1961 at the Salone del Mobile.Milano celebrates the launch of its 2024 collection. The 2024 collection reflects a style where quality and aesthetics are expressions of a manufacturing approach of excellence in every production phase and where metal is the material of choice.

Ghidini1961 is officially available at BRERA Indonesia, IDD PIK 2

The 2024 collection is a result of great collaborations with international designer such as Lorenza Bozzoli, Stefano Giovannoni, Richard Hutten, Robert Stadler and Paolo Rizzatto.

Roberto Ghidini, president of Ghidini1961, states: “High manufacturing is, historically, our heritage and has become our way of distinguishing ourselves in the varied universe of contemporary design. A value that passes through every single piece of the collection, of which we are proud to carry out all the production phases internally, with peaks of excellence that have no comparison in the sector, such as the structures of the sofas which are completely in die-cast metal, to guarantee an unaltered beauty in the long term”.

Presented by Som Santoso

Design by Stefano Giovannoni
Shaker Console by Stefano Giovannoni
Family of consoles in different sizes, a classic object wisely redesigned to bring it back to a contemporary dimension.

The elegant metal wheel that characterizes the sofa is proposed here as the end of the sinuous turned legs, allowing the console to be moved.

The Shaker console is made of cherry wood or matt black lacquered wood.

Frame Console by Stefano Giovannoni
Stefano Giovannoni designs Frame for Ghidini1961, a new collection composed of sofas, armchairs, dining tables, consoles and coffee tables, bookshelves, cabinets and beds.

Everything starts from a simple element: “the joint”, which, combined with elegant rounded 45 degrees extrusions, creates an almost infinite family.

The collection is characterized by organic junctions that – in their possible combinations – create minimal, compact and powerful structures.

Frame is built starting from few elements that are able to create a large family with essential lines.

Small tables and storage units are played with different materials, such as glass, wood and marble, while the sofa has a leather structure and fabric cushions.

Design by Paolo Rizzatto
Merlino and Artù tables by Paolo Rizzatto
“Artù” and “Merlino”: yesterday in the Legend, today at the Salone del Mobile.Milano in the form of tables. The shape of the circle, in which people naturally arrange themselves when they gather for an interest that unites them (food, entertainment, ritual, play), it has become, over time, the archetypal form of socialization. The “democratic” form of the circle which today the news could also define as “pacifist” and more simply “convivial” it is the ideal form for a meeting between equals without table leaders and hierarchies: the dining table for a modern family.

A circular marble top (with an optional rotating center) by combining it with two different supports you generate two very different tables:
Artù
The large circular top is well supported by a solid base formed by a series of overlapping concave and convex rotation volumes alternating the metal (brushed burnished metal scots) and stone (grooves and spheres in precious colored marbles).

The whole communicates a feeling of well-constructed stability and security and of noble architectural richness.

The circle evokes the legend of the “Knights of the Round Table”, and “King Arthur”, stone and metal recall the “Sword in the Stone” back to Excalibur.

Merlino
The marble top instead seems to float supported by an unusual structure surprisingly rich and light, airy and iridescent as the points of view change.

The linear and curvilinear shapes in burnished and brushed metal that compose it they refer to organic vegetal forms and when reflected in a mirrored surface they multiply and they seem to mysteriously sink in the floor plane.

The organic vegetal shapes and reflective surfaces evoke the mysterious forests that protected the “Kingdom of Camelot”, “The Queen of the Lake” and the “Merlin the Wizard” creator and mentor of Arthur.

Dapertutto Coffee Tables by Paolo Rizzatto
“Dapertutto” is a disturbing character, part magician and part devil from “The Tales of Hoffmann”, Offenbach’s opera fantastique.

“Dapertutto” could be the perfect name for this side table designed to sneak “everywhere”, in every environment with its form that is both archetypal (think of the Diablo game) and very contemporary (reminiscing black holes), but still ambiguous and reversible.

Arnold Squared Side Tables by Paolo Rizzatto
Discreet but comfy. Three geometric shapes (a Line, a Plan, a Volume) and three materials (Metal, Wood, Marble) exploiting the artifice and techniques of “tapering” take the form of: a solid tapered column (in two heights) completed with connections at the base and at the head providing a comfortable support surface characterized by a thin rounded edge and a stable truncated cone base.

The several combinations of the three geometries and the three materials are enriched by some dimensional variations and, with the study and fine-tuning of their overall proportions, take their definitive and complete form where the elegant brass column, which draws and solves the connection and attachment between the top and the base, becomes the distinctive element of the project without taking over the other elements that take part in the compositional game.

Design by Robert Stadler
Tasca Sofa and Armchair by Robert Stadler
The name Tasca refers to the cushion’s elegant leather pockets in which the sofa structure is housed. Both the pockets and the metal parts are reminiscent of distinct equestrian accessories.