Paolo castelli - Ottomana stool

An apparent simplicity characterizes Ottomana, a refined stool that inhabits spaces with ease while also serving as a coffee table or decorative object. The compact design is delicate to the eye thanks to the minimal, enveloping shape of the seat that makes the furniture iconic.

“Perhaps because of the final rest You are the image, to me so dear you comeO Evening!” Alla Sera, Ugo Foscolo.
Evening comes within the walls of the home in its still silence, permeating every room with stillness and serenity. The doors close, the lights dim, the furniture reveals its profile in the half-light: everything is designed to slow the pace and regain a sense of one’s own time. Paolo Castelli’s new 2023 collection “Alla Sera” (In the evening) originated from the desire to harmonise distinct sensations, giving life to a romantic landscape that evokes the atmosphere created by a sunset. An evocative scenario inhabited by indoor and outdoor proposals and high-tech lighting systems with a handcrafted soul that testify to Paolo Castelli’s ability to offer an extensive catalogue of furniture for the living and sleeping area. Lights and shadows meet in a symphony of chiaroscuro enhancing colours and materiality: a dreamlike stage where the new proposals tell little stories of timeless elegance.

Paolo Castelli

Directed to design for cultural training and natural passion, Paolo Castelli begins to design successful products for the family company - Domodinamica - which first enters with management role and then acquires with the Paolo Castelli SPA.
The love for design combined with the entrepreneurial vision of the entire product cycle, allow Paolo Castelli to conceive collections and pieces where the creative part is always accompanied by a concrete approach aimed at finding the best technical and aesthetic solutions.

Paolo Castelli

Between deign and global contract. From cabinetry shop to furniture and art object collections, up to the large contract projects for residential and public spaces: 140 years of history Made in Italy.

Paolo Castelli S.p.a is an Italian company, leader in the global contracting and in the design sector, in Italy and abroad, that manages large turnkey private and public projects, including bespoke furnishings for hospitality, high-end residential projects, offices, museums, marine. The company also produces furnitur and lighting for its own registered brand, which are presented every year at Salone del Mobile fair, Imm Cologne, Salone del Mobile di Shanghai. Born of a long family tradition of 140 years in the field of furniture and contract supplies, the company has been able over the years to take advantage of market changes – between craft and industry – becoming a dynamic and flexible institution, capable of demolishing a building, rebuild it and providing furnishings, with the logic of the “global value engineering”, for a proper turnkey service.