Calvi Brambilla

Calvi Brambilla is the studio of Fabio Calvi and Paolo Brambilla, both architecture graduates of the Politecnico di Milano. Calvi also studied at Brunel University in London; Brambilla studied at the UPC in Barcelona and later taught interior design at the Politecnico's School of Design. Founded in 2006, the studio works on private residences, offices, shops, installations and products. For Varaschin it designed TIBIDABO, an extensive outdoor range in which hand-woven synthetic rope is stretched over painted aluminium frames, its lines sometimes vertical, sometimes growing denser from base to back. KOLONAKI is a family of tables on flat drawn steel bases, treated by cataphoresis and powder coated, with ceramic or HPL tops in several shapes. BENTO, a modular sofa system, takes its logic from the Japanese bento box, combining rectangular, trapezoidal and pentagonal bases in new arrangements.