IOI TABLE COLLECTION
BY GAMFRATESI
AS SOFT AS STONE
AN HOMAGE TO ART DECO
A modern-day homage to the elegant geometries of Art Deco design, GamFratesi’s IOI Collection showcases the studio’s dedication to honest materiality and fascination with the interplay of form and space. Striking and unique, the IOI Collection takes its name from the structure of the table legs, each of which is formed from twin metal tubes linked by a sphere of brass – the letters I-O-I rendered in physical form.
“Travertine has been a prized architectural material since the days of the Greeks and Romans, its durability complemented by its extraordinary aesthetic appeal. The stone lends itself beautifully to reinterpretation in the Art Deco context of the IOI Collection, balancing the uniformity of the design’s geometry with the infinitely varied pattern of the surface.”
Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi, Designers, GamFratesi
REDEFINED EXPRESSION
Retaining this slender base, in black or chrome options, GUBI’s new edition introduces a new material and color to the circular tabletop – travertine in Rippled Beige – and refines its shape. The sides are rounded to create a U-shaped edge that arcs evenly on the top and bottom. This softened, organic form underlines the design’s Art Deco references, echoing the curve of the brass and complementing the lines of the tapering tubular legs. Sourced in Italy, the use of travertine gives the table strength and sturdiness, gently offset by the soft curves of the edges, and preserves the natural tactility and warm materiality of the stone in the finished design.
UNIQUE SHADES OF TRAVERTINE
Replacing the marble of the earlier edition, the travertine tabletop in Rippled Beige features a beautiful and complex color pattern, in an almost infinite variety of shades ranging from caramel and cream to ocean gray. Travertine resembles a living material, like wood. In the same way that the knots and whorls in the grain of a timber make each piece stand out, so do the variable linear veins and undulating striations found in the slabs of travertine make each stone entirely unique. In the IOI Collection, every tabletop has an expression all of its own and every piece is one of a kind, with new details to be discovered with every glance.
GAMFRATESI
Danish-Italian design duo GamFratesi has been working with GUBI since the inception of their studio and, with their own dual heritage, share GUBI’s ability to synthesize seemingly opposing ideas – the classic and the contemporary, the intellectual and the eclectic, the understated and the expressive, the manufactured and the unique. In the case of the Sejour Lounge Chair, the contrasts between light and weighty, warm and cool, and soft and firm, provide nuanced internal dialogues that capture the imagination.
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