Colosseo

Overview

Colosseo is a small table designed by Naoto Fukasawa in 2018. It is an accessory that changes function, from coffee table to ottoman, and is named after the famous Roman arena. The form is a solid in the shape of an upside-down truncated cone, lightened by arch-shaped grooves.

Construction

The frame is hard polyurethane painted in several glossy colours. The technical information also lists an MDF wood fibre panel and a felt bottom base.

Specifications

19 glossy lacquered colours are offered.

Arches that name the table

Fukasawa reached the shape by considering a solid in the form of an upside-down truncated cone. The arch-shaped grooves define the surface and create an assonance with the structure of the Roman arena the table is named after.

From the Harbor armchairs

In his own words, Fukasawa says these tables were first made by the same process as his Harbor armchairs, which are carved from an upside-down conical mass. They looked too solid and heavy, so he shaved off some of the mass, and the resulting arches resembled the Roman arches of the Colosseum.