Roda - Aspic side table 001
Cast concrete takes shape and gives life to the new versatile ASPIC coffee tables, designed by Gordon Guillaumier. Among the latest innovations of RODA, the ASPIC family is characterized by the solid concrete structure, the sinuosity of the lines and the finish with exposed grit on the top.
The presence of cement conveys a sense of stability and durability that contrasts with the visual delicacy of the top and the concave volumes that characterize the base.
Without legs or feet to support the top, but with sinuous vertical walls that support the top, the ASPIC coffee tables are able to create interlocking games between the different heights and organize the spaces in freedom, also as a complement to seats and poufs.
Gordon Guillaumier
Gordon Guillaumier was born in Malta in 1966, Gordon Guillaumier studied in Switzerland and England. He graduated in industrial design and the following year in a master's degree in industrial design from the Domus Academy in Milan. He began his career collaborating with Rodolfo Dordoni's Studio, where he worked on design projects with companies such as Foscarini, Artemide and FontanaArte. Later, he collaborated with Driade alongside Enrico Astori on the development of the Atlantide / Dhouse project. In 2002 he founded his Design Studio in Milan, focused on design consulting, product and interior design. His first commissions began with Dornbracht Interiors, Fiam, Rational and art direction for Pamar and designed his first products for Bosa ceramiche, Foscarini and FontanaArte for the Schopenhauer collection. He is currently art director for Desalto and Roda (together with Rodolfo Dordoni and Gabriella Zecca). His design works are part of the collections of Bosa, Paola C, Desalto, DeSede, Driade, FontanaArte, Frag, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Matteo Grassi, Montina, Minotti, Moroso, Lema, Roda, Tacchini, Foscarini, Oluce, Pamar, Azzurra Ceramiche, Kronos Ceramiche, and Ceramiche Piemme to name a few.
Roda opens a new era in the outdoor furniture field, a more contemporary dimension of living that goes beyond the borders of the home: indoor and outdoor mingle with a harmonic language, in a spatial and conceptual continuum. The company’s founder, Roberto Pompa, followed his revolutionary intuition to realized outdoor as places to be lived and enhance with refined pieces of furniture. The company’s name speaks of people and loved ones: RODA is an acronym of the names of Pompa’s family – RO for Roberto and his wife Rosaria, DA for their children Daniele and Davide. The vision and ambition held at RODA gradually became a process. This was a decade of great importance, focused on the cultural enhancement and ennoblement of a new type of outdoor furniture. In order to encompass design, a sense of conviviality, and the kind of emotions given by interiors, Rodolfo Dordoni was selected by the team as an artistic director. In 2005, RODA participated for the first time at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, while its innovative catalogue featured a clear overview of the company’s original approach to outdoor living. The fair and the catalogue were turning points that led to the global confirmation of the success of the strategy, the product, and the unusual, sophisticated combinations of materials and colours.
