Obon: Simoni Bonnani's table series for Moooi

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In a play on "old and new," Italian designer Simone Bonnani has just created a series of coffee tables for Moooi , called Obon . Straddling a play on imperfection and craftsmanship, the pieces combine simplified geometric shapes with the look of aged and terracotta texture to design timeless furniture items.

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Simone began by sketching three “pure, irregular and graphic” shapes on a canvas before constructing molds and injecting them into terracotta clay. Together with a ceramicist from Veneto, Italy, Bonnani experimented with a selection of glazes to give the table’s surfaces a more tactile appearance.

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"We worked on its tactile aspect by including various thicknesses of chamotte (a ceramic raw material with a high percentage of silica and alumina), with the aim of generating a perfect blend between the present and the past," concludes the designer.

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