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In an exclusive interview, the Italian designers explain every detail behind esPattio’s new launch: the Baelo range of meeting tables.

Archirivolto Design is an Italian design studio founded in 1983 by Marco Pocci and Claudio Dondoli. Today, it has six partners, including Cristian Gori, the creative director of Baelo, who joined the firm in 1996.

Archirivolto’s core business is furniture design, particularly chairs and tables. Its designs stand out for being simple and lightweight, as well as for their emotional impact. The products also aim to be aesthetically pleasing and “democratic”, i.e. available to any audience.

In an interesting conversation, this prestigious Italian studio will explain all the details, secrets and questions behind Baelo, the meeting table that is its first design for the soft seating brand inspired by the South.

Interested in what they told us? Join us for a short read and become a Baelo expert!

Archirivolto Design: “Customers are looking for furniture that is immediately understandable, easy to manage and transformable”

According to Archirivolto Design, Baelo is “a range of meeting tables designed for corporate offices, which stands out for its base made using the rotomoulding technique”. Despite its corporate design, Archirivolto Design emphasises that “it is also perfect for use in the food service industry, such as hotels, cafés and restaurants. It’s so flexible that it could even be used in the home!”.

And its adaptability is one of the great strengths of this range of meeting tables. Baelo can be adapted to almost anyone’s needs. It is available as a round, rectangular or square table, with one, two or three bases, elliptical or barrel-shaped, and even as a high table.“Customers are looking for furniture that is immediately understandable, easy to manage and transformable, furniture that can seamlessly blend into spaces and architecture” explained Archirivolto Design when we asked them about Baelo’s ability to adapt to all types of spaces.

Baelo also stands out for “the simplicity of its structure, assembly and modularity” as well as the possibility of being electrified, a feature made possible by the hollow shape of its base, and the multiple lacquers for its base and tabletop finishes.

Despite its many qualities, for Archirivolto Design, Baelo’s most important role is its ability to relate to people’s needs to create the perfect room. “We would like Baelo to generate the feeling that each person is relating to the right object, finding it comfortable and satisfying their needs”, explained the design studio directors.

Archirivolto Design: “Baelo adds the touch of home needed to give warmth to an office setting”

The entire design process required extensive research. Baelo needed “the repeated creation of prototypes” which eventually allowed Archirivolto Design “to optimise the project” to achieve the Baelo we know today.

Archirivolto Design expects Baelo to be a range of tables that adds unique value to the sector, with its own identity that will make it one of esPattio’s star products. For Archirivolto Design, Baelo “has added the touch of home needed to give warmth to an office setting, which is often cold and impersonal”.

As well as innovating in the world of meeting tables, Baelo has excellent sustainability credentials. It is designed to be fully recyclable. 100% of its cardboard, wood, steel and polyethylene are recyclable, making it a product whose life cycle can be repeated at least six times. In addition, the rotomoulding technique used to produce its base eliminates almost all of the waste derived from manufacturing, avoiding the environmental impact of a material as long-lasting as plastic.

Archirivolto Design’s preferred finishes for Baelo

As you might expect, Baelo brings out the best of esPattio and its parent company, Forma 5. Baelo offers a huge number of colours and finishes that make it a completely customisable meeting table for any person or space.

Within its range of possibilities, Baelo’s base, created in white, black or grey after rotomoulding, can then be lacquered in all the colours offered by esPattio for this range. Also, its tabletops can be made from wood, lacquered wood, Fénix board, Dekton board or marble.

For some of the Archirivolto Design team, dark colours are best for the Baelo base, such as Black, Sombre or Alcázar, due to their resemblance to anthracite. “They are colours that clarify the shape and really enhance the piece’s surface”, the Italian designers explained to us. On the other hand, another part of the team prefers “wood finishes, adding warmth to the product and combining it with equally warm colours at the base“. Two radically different preferences that Baelo can deliver due to its wide range of colours and its many finishes.

esPattio and Archirivolto Design, a promising future

Baelo is the first design by Cristian Gori, Marco Pocci, Claudio Dondoli and the rest of the team of designers at Archirivolto Design for esPattio, a partnership that we hope to continue in many future designs. For Archirivolto Design, the best thing about working with esPattio is “interacting with competent people and with a new point of view thanks to the extensive track record of the entire Forma 5 Group”.

Asked about future designs for esPattio, Baelo’s creators were excited to be able to add “a chair, why not, or even better, a collection of seats to place around the Baelo table”, definitely an idea we will consider for the future of our catalogue.

Interested in finding out more about the minds behind Baelo? Visit their profile to learn more about the history of this Italian design studio.

The designers of the new design tell us exclusively about all the details behind their latest creations.

Founded in 2002 in Madrid, DSIGNIO is the union of designers Patxi Cotarelo and Alberto Bejarano. This interior design and product studio is the creator of our latest launch: Platero.

With a trajectory of more than twenty years, the designers have been present at the best European design fairs and position themselves as an important studio in the concept of ‘Integral Design’, achieving this type of design in five Spanish hotels.

In this exclusive interview, Patxi Cotarelo and Alberto Bejarano unravel the secrets, inspiration and concerns with Platero, their first design for the soft seating brand.

Do you want to know what they told us? Join us in this short reading!

Platero

DSIGNIO: “Platero is movement, freedom and play”

For DSIGNIO, Platero is “a different seat, a different furniture concept that offers many possibilities”. In particular, they highlight the symbiosis between a “curved base that allows us to swivel and change position easily” and a side table where “we can write, use the laptop, the tablet, use it as a lectern…”.

Despite its multiple functionalities, for DSIGNIO the most important thing about Platero “is not what it allows us to do, but how we feel when we use it. Platero gives positive sensations. Platero is movement, it is play, it is freedom, it reminds us of moments of leisure… and these sensations open our minds and make us creative when we work”.

DSIGNIO: “Platero goes beyond”.

The inspiration behind Platero “comes from childhood, from moments of fun. Sometimes, as adults, it helps to look back and remember when we were children because those moments can bring us a lot in the present”.

According to DSIGNIO, they hope the Platero design will “open up a little-explored avenue” and will be “a piece that contributes to creating vibrant spaces for ideas to flow in a relaxed atmosphere“. The idea behind Platero is that if a person sees it for the first time, they will have “a pleasant surprise” and “they will sit down, try it out and discover the sensation of swinging”.

The innovation behind Platero comes from DSIGNIO’s reflection on the state of the office workplace today. According to the designers, “a workspace doesn’t have to be a boring place”, but Platero goes beyond that. It’s an object that allows us to interact with it constantly. We can rock, relax, have fun, concentrate and use it for different purposes; it’s really versatile.

DSIGNIO’s favourite colours for Platero

In Platero, esPattio brings out all its chromatic range of fabrics. Atlántico, Doñana, Gorafe, Maceta… There is plenty to choose from. For Dsignio, Platero “deserves to be accentuated with its upholstery, using colours that contrast with its beech wood with red, green or blue colours”.

Being such an original design, you may have doubts about where to place it in an office or your workspace. For DSIGNIO, “a good place in an office would be an informal meeting room, a space where we want to encourage communication and interaction between workers. At home, we can use it as a place to work in a room or the living room.”

It is easily transportable, so it doesn’t need its own space or a single use, as it is versatile. It also allows us to sit on it in different ways, so we recommend trying it out.

The future of DSIGNIO and esPattio

Platero is Patxi Cotarelo and Alberto Bejarano’s first design for esPattio, but we hope it won’t be the last. According to the designers, working with esPattio has allowed them to “bring to reality a project as particular as Platero, contribute and contribute to a daring, fresh and original catalogue“, highlighting esPattio as “a brand with a great future ahead of it”.

On future designs for esPattio, DSIGNIO commented they “have several ideas in their heads to define” and left the door open to collaborating again soon.

Have you wanted to find out more about DSIGNIO? Visit their profile in our designer’s section to learn more about this prestigious studio.

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Behind Baelo product design: Archirivolto Design