DESIGN NAME: Tone
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Tableware Collection
INSPIRATION: Tone Collection takes its inspiration from the Mediterranean and the lands surrounding it.
Bringing together the deep cultural heritage of the coastal countries by combining the rythm of music,
local dance and calm waves with memorable tones of Mediterranean landscapes, the collection promises
an experience specific to Coastal Boutique and Fine Dining Restaurants.
Organic form of Tone collection takes inspiration from
scalloped sea shells as well as flamenco dresses and waves of Mediterranean.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The new mildly scalloped, mediterranean inspired, vitrified collection by Bonna; comes with 3 well matched reactive glazes.
Sahara, Blush, and Adelfa.
With minimal energy consumption during production, Bonna's new premium vitrified body used in Tone has nearly same durability values as porcelain and almost zero water absorption.
Therefore, besides the ceramic workshop feel and sustainability , the collection also fullfills the main requirements of Horeca sector; such as functional sizes and volumes, long life cycle and stackability; by which excelling competitors.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The collection promises an experience
specific to Coastal Boutique and Casual Fine Dining Restaurants. Besides providing a visually pleasing ceramic workshop feel and sustainability , the collection also fullfills
the main requirements of Horeca sector; such as functional sizes and volumes for a wide variety of occasions,
long life cycle and stackability; by which excelling other ceramic products. Design aims to offer perfect solutions
to many different environments with its easily adaptable,
slightly abstract design language.
Also perfectly matched with round scalloped dishes
and amorph complementaries of Bonna and other companies; which gives the user open end mix&match compatibility.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project took around 6 months to design and see the productions of first prototypes at second half of 2023. It is exhibited in 2024 Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt first.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: All Tone collection members are made of premium vitrifed body. With minimal energy consumption and low carbon emissions during production, Tone is an environmentally friendly product family with Bonna’s once fired premium vitrified body. Its ceramic workshop feel, durability and stackability compared to ceramic products
provide a visually pleasing, functional, long life and environmentally satisfying experience.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The collection consists of 11 different tableware items. The sizes differ from 100 to 360 mm wide and 15 to 70 mm height. The collection, which consists of 11 different stoneware items so far, aims to offer perfect solutions
to many different environments with its easily adaptable,
slightly abstract design language.
Also perfectly matched with round scalloped dishes
and amorph complementaries of Bonna and other companies; which gives the user an open end mix&match compatibility.
TAGS: sustainable, mediterranean, vitrified, bonna, ceramic, tableware, premium, casual dining, boutique, horeca
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Having online and face to face surveys with sector professionals, chefs and restaurant owners before and through the design process for feedbacks and a valuable starting point gave the product family a solid foundation for real needs in terms of dimensions and visual integrity. The mediterranean inspiration also lead to reflect the design language from local to global perspective easily.
CHALLENGE: To combine a hand made ceramic feeling with a mass produced product family is a real challenge for a design process like in Tone collection. The main goal was to have better results in terms of sustainability, stackability and longer life span due to harder material and glazes compared to similar ceramic products.
ADDED DATE: 2024-06-28 21:39:43
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Özkan Koral
IMAGE CREDITS: Özkan Koral
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Design copyrights pending, Özkan Koral, 2024.
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