Roche Bobois’ Autumn-Winter 2022 redefines living with Covid

Pursuing creativity is often a courageous endeavour to achieve something nobody has ever done – to cross boundaries and limitations to create something wholly unique. And for French luxury home interior retailer Roche Bobois, creativity was never an area which it had shied away from. 

For its Autumn-Winter 2022 collection, it redefines living at home, inspired by the way Covid-19 had shifted how people experienced living at home. With different interpretations and new perspectives, Roche Bobois leads into the new season with brand new contemporary designs that transform how we experience our home. 

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Particularly the Polygonia by Giacomo Garziano, an exceptionally designed sideboard made of four units – two opened with butterfly doors and two with flap doors. Its design, an inspiration from the Amazonian butterfly Polygonia Zephus, is a striking sculptural piece made of plain or metallic lacquered polyurethane. A uniquely inspiring and limited 55-piece, it engages the mind with creativity and imagination – perfectly striking to the eye and intriguing to the senses, like art. 

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Meanwhile, the Blogger 3 by Roberto Tapinassi & Maurizio Manzoni is a cain fabric upholstered sofa, complete with foam-filled padded seats and supported on a solid fir wood and pine wood structure. At the heart of its creative process, attention to detail, meticulous finishes and masterful craftsmanship were always the focus. Boasting a clever mix of ’70s and ’00s era, its modern design gives way for its rounded curved lines, soft tufting and sumptuous cream tone to encapsulate a soft, comfortable, timeless and relaxed aesthetic and experience. 

 

For more information, please visit www.roche-bobois.com/en.

Minotti 2021 Collection: A brand new chapter in innovation and modular versatility

Hong Kong-based lifestyle expert and designer furniture showroom Andante introduces Italian contemporary furniture designer Minotti‘s 2021 Collection. It is the first company to showcase the collection in Asia, following its Supersalone, Salone del Mobile exhibition in Milan.

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(Roger seating system)

Presenting the new and modern take on Mid-century spirit through a collection of indoor and outdoor furniture that offer an ultra-contemporary feel of Italian rationalism-meets-raw brutalism, the collection comprises of a series of versatile furnishings that warmly welcome homeowners and visitors into the home with its mellow mix of leathers in sophisticated colours, soft textiles, and not to mention the wide variety of wood and exquisite stone materials that are interplayed with glossy and matte effects.

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(Studio collection)

Exemplifying comfort and hospitality through innovative designs that do not compromise on modularity, style or morphological versatility, the stylisation and composition of each room are endless.

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(Studio collection)

Featuring the Studio Collection — a new direction in collaboration with designer Marcio Kogan of studio mk27, the series addresses the demand of the evolving trend of today’s working environments. Encompassing a new range of meeting tables, work desks and office chairs that provide a hybrid solution for multifunctional but elegant furnishings that can stage offices, meeting areas, boardrooms, and even luxurious lobbies.

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(Lido armchair)

Other product highlights include the Indoor and Outdoor Collection. For the former, designed in partnership with designers Rodolfo Dordoni, GamFratesi and Marcio Kogan of studio mk27, the series of completely innovative armchairs, tables, storage units and seating systems create an exceptionally congenial and modular nest that seamlessly transforms any room into a meeting space that underpins the functionality of the area.

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(Lido Cord Outdoor collection)

The Indoor collection includes the Roger seating system and Marvin tables by Dordoni, Daiki Studio Collection, Brasilia sofas, armchairs and Superquadra storage units and tables by Marcio Kogan of studio mk27, and the Lido indoor armchairs by GamFratesi.

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(Patio Outdoor armchairs)

The Outdoor Collection, on the other hand, is complemented by a range of sculptural, art deco-style tables, as well as rugs, that boast a harmonious blend of natural materials that welcome with a charmingly warm ambiance, featuring the Patio series of sofas, armchairs, loveseat and double daybeds, and Lido Cord Outdoor sofas, armchairs, footstool, coffee tables by GamFratesi; and Torii Nest Outdoor Collection by Nendo.

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(Marvin dining table)

Each collection brings a sumptuous and elegant charm that enlivens each space with colour, texture and innovation — transforming each space however home owners see fit. Exclusively available at:

Andante
G/F Shop D & A, 1/F Shop 104,
Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street,
Central, Hong Kong.

For more information, please visit www.andante.com.hk

 

(Feature Image: Salone del Mobile Milano 2021- Supersalon in Milan)

Dual Purpose: Transformable furniture to revolutionise your abode

Hong Kong is almost as notorious for its small homes as it is for its soaring skyscrapers. Inevitably, then, many residents have more stuff than room to stash them in, creating a citywide yearning for creative solutions that utilise any and all available space to the very max.  Thankfully, there have been a whole load of innovative ideas on the fashionable, functional but affordable furniture front, with these cleverly-designed transformable furnitures leading the charge…

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A transformable coffee table with storage
Genuinely functional, while also stylishly innovative, multi-functional coffee tables that open outward, exposing hidden storage compartments and tops that level out into miniature desks, creates the perfect repository for magazines, chargers, cables, remotes and even board games. Such is the case with the Chiva functional coffee table with storage (HK$13,599) from Danish designer Bo Concept which cleverly integrates a slim table top that creates the perfect height for a working desk or a place to have your afternoon tea.

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A hydraulic TV floor-lift
No matter how limited your home-space is, one thing every living room clearly cannot get by without is some form of TV mounting. Though such items are typically bulky, there are number of options for those who want to save a little space. In the case of hydraulic TV cabinets, these can vary considerably in terms of design, ranging from mounted screens that drop down from the ceiling to TV frames that lift from underneath the floor. Hong Kong-based smart home company Linko offers solutions to automating rolling TV cabinets for any position and any room in the home.

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Image: Expand Furniture

An expandable dining table
Adopting a minimalist style gives space saving a stylishly modern and elegant look. But showcasing less doesn’t necessarily have to mean to be without, as there can be more than one way to accommodate a minimalist lifestyle and still entertain a large circle of friends on occasion. US-based furniture brand Expand Furniture is famed for its innovative and modern designs that seamlessly extend small-scale furniture into full-length pieces. Notably their benches and dining tables such as the Ultimate Space Saving Dining Table Set (HK$23,985) which was engineered to expand from a 17″desk to a full 12-seater dining table — ensuring guests can dine and relax together.

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A floating shelf desk
Turning to the home office – typically not so much a dedicated study as a co-optible multi-purpose spare room. Floating shelves often make for a great way to optimise your available floor acreage, transformable desks that easily fold in-and-out of the shelving unit makes for an efficient space saving work station that can be dismissed out of sight and out of mind when the task is done. One such example is the Wally (HK$10,368) floating shelf desk by Italian transformable furniture specialist Clei.  

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A hide-away wall bed
When it comes to the bedroom, this can also be artfully arranged so as to facilitate a seamless transition from one requirement to the next thanks to the integration of double-purpose hydraulically-supplemented wall beds that display a seemingly none-out-of-the-ordinary wall console of shelves and cabinets by day then pull out instantly into a double bed frame. Innovators at Clei have engineered a range of wall beds (HK$80,000) that cleverly fit into the nooks of your shelving units and wardrobe  cabinets — seamlessly blending in with the decor and keeping everything tidily in place.