B&B Italia sustainably revamps collection from 1972

NOVEDRATE, ITALY — B&B Italia, an Italian modern-day home furnishings enterprise that sells throughout the world, has introduced a renewed edition of its very well-identified Le Bambole by Mario Bellini 50 yrs soon after its preliminary creation with consolation and sustainability being distinguished additions to the assortment.

Acknowledged as C&B at the time, B&B Italia offered the Le Bambole in 1972, a collection of upholstered home furnishings goods layout by Mario Bellini with cozy softness, plush roundness and playful keynotes in thoughts for the armchairs, sofas and beds.

Le Bambole first 1972 assortment

Le Bambole is offered as a series of big cushions arranged in an pretty much random method. The steel frames ensured solidity while the company’s trademark of its polyurethane padding made it possible to come across comfort and ease and embrace in each and every Bambola. The newly introduced versions develop into even additional up to date and seems to recapture curvy and female designs.

The new selection is made up of new aspects additional to the Bambola armchair, the Bibambola two-seater sofa and the Bamboletto double mattress. The a few-seater sofa has also been up-to-date with a deeper seat that has acquired it the identify Granbambola.

The place the authentic construction was primarily based on a metal composition embedded in polyurethane, these days the resources used are recycled polyethylene to give structure, polyurethane foam and thermoplastic elastomers to add shape, and an undercover derived from recycled PET. These new layout characteristics ensure that each and every product in the new Le Bambole collection is effortlessly recyclable.

Additionally, the renewal of this selection provides with it a new sablé material, Sila, in 8 hues. The Sila fabric’s a few-dimensional nature masks the orthogonal outcome of warp and weft, amplifying its softness. Another new fabric is the Manila material, a floral print characterized by large roses with a traditional feel. This confined-edition material is available on a white or black foundation. Le Bambole can also be upholstered in Kasia leather-based, a naturally marked whole-grain leather.

Le Bambole armchairs in Manila material

“I really feel the pleasure of revisiting this spouse and children all over again, mainly because it confirms to me that it is just about anything but aged,” mentioned Mario Bellini. “On the opposite, it is savoring a thriving and promising second life, a rebirth accomplished in a major way, finished with enthusiasm, with breadth, with decorations and with the first flourishes. We have recovered its appeal, its luxurious floridity, its softness.”