Bilico 桌子 by Giuliano Ricciardi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

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Bilico 桌子

by Giuliano Ricciardi

Client: d-Lab studio

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Bilico 桌子

Bilico 是一款模块化花园桌，其名称来源于由模块组成的结构，这些模块以单个支撑架结束，使桌子明显不稳定。由于其模块化，可以将桌子从带有两个相对头的最小圆形桌子，到使用中央模块的理想无限形状桌子。这张桌子由 Pietra di Trani（特拉尼地区典型的大理石）制成，配有中央浴缸，配有 LED 灯，配件（托盘、花架、灯具、餐具托盘、切菜板等）安置。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Bilico 桌子是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Bilico 桌子将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Bilico 桌子出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Bilico is a garden table made of Pietra di Trani (a typical stone marble from Trani area) that owes its name to the unique structure consisting of modules which, ending in a single support stand, make the table visibly unstable. With Bilico is possible to compose tables of different lengths, from the smallest circular shape one composed by two opposite heads, to the ideal infinity. The table is completed by the central tub, led light equipped, where the accessories are housed
Dimensions & Packaging: Min 1200 mm, max 3000 mm x 1200 mm x 740 mm
Tags: table, outdoor, marble, stone, garden, grass, modular, led, corten, luxury
Production Technology: five axis cnc machining for the Pietra di Trani elements, Corten bent and welded
Design Challenge: The main challenge is to give stability to such an impressive and visually unstable item, by using steel plates where individual stone blocks are fixed. These modules are settled to the ground, through the same press-folded bracket which is in turn fixed to a cement foundation, who has been previously placed under the walking surface. Last but not least, Bilico can be splitted into several blocks which make it easy to be transported.
Research: When you think of a table, it is natural to think of a support surface made up of four legs placed at the table corners. In this case the support is carried out by a single support stand which is properly fixed to the ground, thus lightening the whole structure. The visible lightening is in contrast with the solidity and weight characterised by the Pietra di Trani, making the user disoriented.
Inspiration: Bilico is a garden table that came from the desire to bring the human being closer to nature. Human being can interact with nature as in an ideal journey where the contact is not only given by its intended purpose but also by the presence of green above the support surface. It’s like an ideal vessel that sails on a grass ground while carrying a little piece of nature made by grass and stylised clouds.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2022 in Taranto and Finished in February 2022 in Taranto
Operation Flow: The Bilico modular structure ideally allows a table endless development which, thanks to a single central stand, it seems to sail like a vessel whose stability is carried out by a cement foundation based below the ground. The central basin, with a grass layer inside, serves as a decoration and storage for different type of accessories like the cloud-shaped trays. This makes, as a whole, a landscape within a landscape.
Image Credits: #1 Designer Giuliano Ricciardi, Bilico Perspective, 2022
#2 Designer Giuliano Ricciardi, Bilico Lateral, 2022
#3 Designer Giuliano Ricciardi, Bilico Top, 2022
#4 Designer Giuliano Ricciardi, Bilico Perspective 2, 2022
#5 Designer Giuliano Ricciardi, Bilico Modularity 2, 2022
Video Credits: Designer Giuliano Ricciardi, Bilico Video, 2022