Name: Gesta

Designer: Roberto Paoli

Company: TVS

Year of production: 2014

Materials: Aluminium and bakelite 

Colour: Champagne

Dimensions: Casserole 20 cm, frypan 24 and 28 cm, sauteuse 24 cm

Name: Tarta

Designer: Roberto Paoli

Company: Slide

Year of production: 2014

Materials: Rigid structural polyurethane and wood

Colours: White, green, black, gray, pink, red, orange, yellow

Table, reading and floor lamp, that contains the light inside its shapes: the light is compressed to be then freely emanate into the space, thanks to a simple movement.

A light shade in cotton fabric, with an almost cylindrical shape, hides an half-sphere that contains the light source. The shade is closed on the upper part by a rotating metal disc, acting as a reflector that orient the luminous flux: when the disc is in the horizontal position the light is reflected inside the half-sphere, by tilting the disc, the light will be released into the space, losing some intensity inside the shade.

This particular gives a strong aesthetic characterization to the object-lamp and it enriches his functionality.

The protagonist of the dining room is the table, around that we spend relaxing moments speaking and eating with friends. A piece of furniture that creates opportunities for aggregation between people when the bustle of life temporarily seems to subside.

Ligne Roset knows the importance of this object and assign the designer Roberto Paoli to project the extension table Sapone, consolidating a successful working relationship.

Sapone confirm the thought that nowadays people loves to live the furniture like games whose mechanisms and possibilities of movement are not hidden but, on the contrary, are highlighted.

In the table Sapone the two colours mark the removable extension from the fixed part, so the object, even when it is closed, communicates his ability to move itself. Usually the extension tables on the market hide the possibility to be extended when they are closed and, when they are expanded, try to hide that they has been extended. As if maximizing space by changing the objects would be a weakness not to be shown.

Sapone is proud to lengthen itself, it shows the parts that compose itself and differentiates them with colours.

The modern life imposes frantic rhythms, spaces get smaller and we give more importance to the functionality of the environments and of the objects. In particular, in the flats of the major cities, dining room and living room are in a single space. When we invite friends, we can enlarge Sapone with quick gestures that allow us an optimal use of the space.

Sapone is a socializing object that symbolizes the stay together and the relationship with different people. Thanks to its enlargement from the long side, it becomes a square, so all the people around it have the same position, the heads of the table are eliminated and the dialogue between the diners is simpler. A square table also offers a wide space accessible by all in the same way. Sapone is for 6 people if it is closed and for 8 when it is extended.

Sapone is solid and precious, made of ash. A table with a strong functionality within a strict geometry softened by the warm tones of the material. A product close to the user, built to provide a service to the man.

Design move to jewelry: so Ligne Roset reinforce the relationship with Roberto Paoli, presenting at Imm Cologne , Yubu, a wall mirror container that seems to come from a jewelry box.

As a esteemed pendant studded with precious gems and diamonds, Yubu enriches the mirror slab with colourful cubic containers arranged in apparent randomness.

The shelves can be used as a pocket emptier, small shelters where you usually store objects of everyday use. Yubu can also be used as a mini container in the living or bedroom area, and it can be placed in the entrance area to allow you to have a last look before heading out.

Living the house as a self-expression. In this thought is predominant the figure of man who, through his own personality and sensitivity, shapes the domestic space to create his own habitat. So Yubu lets generously invade itself by the soul of man.

Yubu is an object with a contemporary style that decorates the home with a bit of fun and colour, but which reveals at the same time also a little trick to save space.

Roberto Paoli draws the rug Ciado for the brand I + I.

Ciado is a rug whose drawing is the natural consequence of the superposition of two geometric figures: that of a house and that of his shadow. The red lines reproduce the prospect of the house, while the black lines represent the shadow of it.

The rug shows in two dimensions a three-dimensional representation. A wireframe house struck by the rays of the sun. In particular Ciado reproduces the “little house” drawn by children. Simple and marked signs convey all the warmth and hospitality of the home.

The traits of a clean sign are almost dirtied by the inaccurate beauty of craftsmanship that gives a unique character to the product. Ciado is a rug with highly refined manufacture, completely hand knotted in wool and cotton by Indian weavers. An unexpected product, the result of the encounter between the Western thought of Roberto Paoli and the precious traditional oriental manufacturing techniques. Distant cultures and different from each other that they fit into a contemporary language. The deliberate choice of geometries from the primary design emphasizes the artistic and manual quality of the producer.

Taking advantage of the clean lines, the character of color and materials, Ciado reflects a new atmosphere. In a entertainment optical, these interlacing of lines evoke a warm, lively and friendly atmosphere.

Recently selected for the ADI Design Index and therefore competing for the next Compasso d’Oro, now the floor lamp Tru, designed by Roberto Paoli for the brand Nemo Cassina, has been awarded by the German Design Commission with the label of “Interior Innovation Award, Winner 2014”, considered one of the most renowned design awards in the interior furnishing industry worldwide.

Selected by the German Design Council for its strong innovative identity which allows the full and proper advantageous use of LED in a very functional way, Tru will be shown during the Imm Cologne trade fair from 13th to 19th January 2014, and will compete for the title of Best of Best 2014.

The floor lamp Tru designed by Roberto Paoli for Nemo Cassina has been selected by ADI, the Association for Industrial Design, as a candidate to win the Prize Compasso d’Oro.
Tru is present in the new ADI Design Index 2013 and is on display in the exhibition Design | Opera at the Triennale in Milan from October 02 to November 03 2013.

A significant award for the project by Roberto Paoli and the ability of the company Nemo Cassina to be able to identify projects of particular creativity.

The light is – by definition – visible, while technology and energy tend to invisibility. In this lamp I tried to give form not to the enlightening function, but to the delicate balance between what we see and what the object hides”.
Thus Roberto Paoli talks about Tru, a floor lamp that attracts the eye with its rigorous geometry to minimal stele, described only by a thin ring of metal and by the blade of light that emits from a vertical opening almost invisible.

Freely positioned in the environment, Tru appears as a impalpable luminous sign, while in the vicinity of a wall or other reflective surface, it seems to create its own light background to detach itself visually.

Tru is a mimetic product, not visible when it is turned off. Even this is part of the great insight of Roberto Paoli, who wanted to create a functional, rational and discrete object that when is turn on surprising and appears in all its force. A force that comes from the contrasts: power in a thin structure, fullness luminous sprung from structural void, a strong environmental presence resting on less than one square decimeter.

Roberto Paoli designed for the company Nemo Cassina the applique Flaca Led with double emission.

Flaca is a small wall lamp with refined volumes.

The soft, flowing lines of the light are the expression of the technology used to make the metal body: aluminium pressure casting in fact allows the modelling of an object with rounded edges and different radii and joins planes which are not perpendicular to each other.

The metal box is closed top and bottom by two plates of frosted glass serving as light diffusers, creating a decorative play of light onto the wall.

Flaca is a Spanish word which literally means thin. In common parlance “flaca” is the name used for a slender woman, who is sexy with harmonious proportions.

The work on the geometric shape of the blunt, tapered parallelepiped, generates a slender wall lamp that has all the qualities of “flaca”.

Name: Flaca

Designer: Roberto Paoli

Company: Nemo Cassina

Year of production: 2013

Materials: pressure casting, frosted glass

Colours: matt white

Dimensions: 320x80x80h mm

Light source: Led

Price: n.d.

Leucos has asked to Roberto Paoli to participate in “the great JJ In Leucos” social initiative whose proceeds will be donated to charity in favor of the Città della Speranza, a foundation that deals with the care of children.

A charitable initiative that also wants to devote a timeless icon of design, the progenitor of all table lamps with adjustable swing arm, for this occasion in a “macro” floor version.

The designer has felt particularly involved, a chance to highlight its strong focus towards children. From childhood Roberto Paoli remembers a certain difficulty of communication between children and adults.

Children have an intelligence equal to that of the adults, even if they are without experience, fully understand the adult’s words, arguments and choices.

Adults do not always take into account the total capacities of children, sometimes they exclude them because are “babies”. Adults probably have lost their memory of how they were as children and often do not know relating to them.

“Quando ero bambino…” (When I was a child …) is a phrase that Roberto Paoli has chosen to urge not to forget.  To suggest to adults to talk with the children in a mature and equal way to enter in their harmony, in a sharing mechanism without fear or inhibitions.

The children use the pages of the notebooks to draw, write and communicate, on paper are free to express themselves.

A sheet of squared paper with all the details present in it, such as the thick purple line that signals the margin within which to write, was laid on the lamp Great JJ. The squares are ironed and are arranged on the lamp’s curves following its forms, from the base to the lampshade.

And on the lampshade Roberto Paoli wanted to write the phrase “Qando ero bambino…” (When I was a child …).

At the same time, the choice to reproduce a page of notebook paper, it is a deliberate quotation and reissue of a design classic, the series of tables Quaderna created by Superstudio for Zanotta in 1970, which contextualizes the project even more. The wind of rebellion of the late 60′s has influenced the production of avant-garde Italian design and Quaderna highlights the excesses of Pop Design, much in vogue at the time.

The strict and geometric forms of simple and functional design opposed to curved and playful shapes that characterize the production of this period.

Quaderna can be transposed to the present days as a metaphor for a modernity in crisis which is trying to find the right values.

Today, in fact, in view of this difficult economic situation, strongly opposed to that of the past decades in which it is earned above the superfluous, it’s back to identify those that are the primary necessities of life.

A histogram that in the past was trying to suggest to design and architecture to return to a certain rigor, today can help us to regain order and clarity to deal a historical period so challenging.

Among the projects presented by Roberto Paoli studio at Salone del Mobile 2013, for the company Modoluce Paoli has designed the collection of pendant lamps Multiball.

Multiball is a scenic lamp that seems to float in space.

Roberto Paoli, with great insight and creativity, enhances the market with a product with a taste of the poetic. The hanging cloud is broken down into spheres of different sizes at different heights.

The traditional lamp ball is revisited in modern composition cloud. An unstructured cloud of white light and soft material.

The originality of Multiball is that of providing the user with a highly customizable product: the luminous spheres are connected to each other by an ingenious system from the ceiling that connects the small rosettes with linear steel arms.

Thanks to the connecting elements between the rosettes, it is possible to start from a single feed point and develop the lamp in several directions.

Each ball hanging from a ceiling rose with a tige of variable length permits the creation of compositions at staggered heights giving dynamism to the final product.

The balls are made ​​of white embossed plastic able to confer homogeneous light to the environment without glare points. The steel frame is painted white to create visual consistency to the product.

Multiball is available in two versions: 5 or 12 balls.

Name: Multiball

Designer: Roberto Paoli

Azienda: Modoluce

Year of production: 2013

Materials: PMMA balls with Soft Touch, steel rods, plates and roses in white painted steel

Colour: white

Price: n.d.

After the success of the TRU floor lamp that looks set to become the best seller of Nemo Cassina, the project’s evolution into a collection of more models seemed quite natural.

Nemo Cassina has therefore requested Roberto Paoli to transfer the philosophy of TRU to other types of product to create a collection, the designer has decided to depart from the idea of suspension.

The concept of absence of the object that decieves the eye due to wafer-thin thicknesses, perfectly achieved in the floor lamp, is also found in the suspension lamp that appears like a monolith emptied of internal matter. Looking at TRU from below it turns out that the object is only a perimeter and that the light-sources are concealed in the thin aluminum profiles that compose it. A ring suspended in the air that seems unable to accommodate light sources, but once it is switched on it surprises the viewer by illuminating its space without allowing one to completely understand where the light comes from.

Today the possibilities offered by LED technology and the depth of research for Nemo Cassina have created this miracle of light generated by a “non object”.

The suspension lamp is made up of several pieces that are assembled to form the final shape of the lamp:

- Linear V profiles of various lengths, specially designed to dissipate the heat of LED sources

- Terminating plates

The two V profiles integrate the light and are positioned so as to illuminate both upwards and downwards. Two die-cast aluminium plates combine the profiles blocking the ends.

The possibility offered to the customer by the company of adopting profiles of different lengths, allows the lamp to be customized and adapted to illuminate any site plan.

TRU dematerializes itself to make space for the light, it is a product with reduced details, but at the same time becoming present when switched on. The structure is the support which allows the light source to exist.

Name: Tru suspension

Designer: Roberto Paoli

Azienda: Nemo Cassina

Year of production: 2013

Materials: structure made ​​of coated composite material

Colour: white

Dimensions: 600/1200/1500/2500x110x90h mm

Price: n.d.

The Hungarian group Iroda.hu, a leader in the real estate market in 2012 has called the award “Az eV Irodája” in order to reward the best projects for offices.

Roberto Paoli studio in collaboration with Twister Architetti Associati, was awarded the prize for the design of interior for the law firm Oppenheim, a huge area of ​​about 1200 square meters which brings together a team of fifty lawyers in the heart of Budapest.

The project renews the look of the space by implementing a new business strategy: to increase the quality of life in the workplace.

Sharing part of the philosophy of the web giants like Google and Facebook, the designers have favored the quality of work, adding to traditional offices various relaxation areas, meeting and recreation.

Masters of the project are the comfort, well-being given by careful choice of colors, the selection of conjugated materials in household furnishings that create a warm, turning the image of the office to which we are accustomed.

The reception is composed exclusively by Tulip table for Knoll and the Sunset chair for Cappellini, that make, from the entrance, the great office Oppenheim like a home.

There are no visible computers, machinery and electronic equipment typical of an office, which are mostly hidden behind specially made compartments.

Provision is made for a recreation room where staff can amuse yourself and compete in an atmosphere of relaxation, sitting down on the sofa Alcove by Vitra chosen precisely with the intention of creating separate niches within the environment. The Egg Chair by Fritz Hansen side by side at the coffee table 360 ​​Degrés designed by Roberto Paoli for Ligne Roset create a strong sense of privacy and confidentiality. The presence of a large table by the irregular geometry also allows the use of personal computers or tablet alongside a colleague in an informal situation.

The lunch area is an open space with walls decorated with floral wallpaper, which give the effect of being outside in a public arena. Colleagues can meet here to share lunch or to spend breaks from work practices.

In the office there are four meeting rooms different in shape in plan and furnishings, in order to emphasize the release of theschemes of the office and give a sense of constant renewal of the study. The rooms are furnished for meetings with accessories for the home, sessions MDF, tables Cappellini, while in the lounge areas there are soft armchairs by Max Design, the lights are Moooi, Flos and in passageways there is the applique Cuma designed by Roberto Paoli for Artemide that the designer always inserted in its interior.

The new offices Oppenheim are designed to improve and make more pleasant the work of the lawyers of the study using a design and cozy home.

Ligne Roset, known internationally for his philosophy of extreme focus on the environment and the constant stylistic and technological innovation of its products, expands the collection introducing the project 360 degrés made by the Italian designer Roberto Paoli.

360 degrés is a coffee table with two shelves, one primary and one secondary. The secondary shelf is located under the main shelf, but it can rotate and be positioned outside the perimeter of the upper shelf, thus enlarging the total supporting surface.

The user can interact with the second shelf to support, for example, a laptop, a tablet or other everyday objects.

The table is kept compact in itself, for not to create hindrance to the passage around it, but, once the user will be seated alongside the 360 degrés, may rotate and approach to itself the second shelf. The shape of the object is an immediate consequence of the function that has been given: the arm that supports the additional shelf had to be particularly strong, so it was equipped with a double tube that it found inspiration in the nature. A sort of limb of bonsai that characterizes aesthetically the entire project.

This arrangement ensures an excellent seal keeping the secondary shelf perfectly horizontal.

The shelves are rounded with gentle curves that eliminates corners.The deliberate asymmetry of the table, due to the lower shelf hidden under the primary shelf, making it even more like a natural element. 360 degrés is a coffee table with a strong functionality within a linear geometry.