Ninety Years In, Bonaldo’s Latest Collection Asks What Furniture Can Do to a Room.

Left: Alberto Bonaldo. Above: Bonaldo showroom in Veneto.

Ninety years is a long time to stay curious. Bonaldo — founded in 1936 in the Veneto region of northern Italy, still family-run, now in its third generation under Alberto Bonaldo — has never really operated like a brand with something to prove. Which is perhaps exactly why it still does.

Presented at this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, the new 26 Collection is Bonaldo’s most considered statement yet of what it calls the Architecture of Objects — a design philosophy that positions furniture not as decoration layered over a room, but as an active participant in shaping how a space feels and functions. It’s a distinction that sounds subtle but carries real weight in practice. When a sofa, a sideboard, or a bed is designed with the architecture around it in mind, the room stops being a backdrop and starts being part of the composition.

The collection brings together a roster of established collaborators — Massimo Castagna, Mauro Lipparini, Gabriele and Oscar Buratti, Alain Gilles, and Fabrice Berrux — each contributing their design sensibility within Bonaldo’s consistent visual language. What unifies the work is a shared restraint: sculptural forms, balanced asymmetry, and a material palette of marble, ceramic, wood, metal, and glass that functions structurally and tactilely rather than purely as surface dressing. Warm browns, mineral greys, and burnt tones run throughout, reinforcing the collection’s grounded, architectural atmosphere.

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Across dining, living, and sleeping zones, the pieces are in constant dialogue with one another. In the dining area, tables take centre stage through sculptural form and considered proportion, flanked by seating and storage that speak the same formal language. The living spaces lean into modular sofas and generously scaled armchairs designed for flexible, multifunctional living — the kind of furniture that adapts to how people actually inhabit their homes. Sculptural sideboards and organically shaped coffee tables introduce softer geometries drawn from natural forms. In the bedroom, rest is treated as an extension of the broader living environment rather than a separate consideration — an idea that feels increasingly relevant in a world where the boundaries between living, working, and unwinding continue to blur.

What’s notable about Bonaldo at ninety is less the longevity itself and more the discipline it implies. The 26 Collection doesn’t feel like a brand trying to prove relevance — it feels like a brand that has consistently known what it’s doing and is simply continuing to do it with greater precision. The result is a collection designed not around singular statement pieces, but around the idea of coherence: interiors where objects exist in constant, considered relationship with the space and architecture around them.

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[Images courtesy of Bonaldo.]