Magazine Calia Italia Latest News Events Collections Italiano Home Latest News Calia Italia Gourmandise collection turns into a real chocolate box Calia Italia Gourmandise collection turns into a real chocolate box By seeing chocolate not only as a precious and sumptuous food but also as an icon of taste and style, Calia Italia draws upon the world of chocolate to give life to an entire family of models – each one more irresistible than the last, which today become a real box of chocolates. A super gluttonous collection whilst being at the same time an ode to Italy and ‘Made in Italy’. When design meets gluttony, wellbeing becomes pleasure. As inherent in its name (in Italian leccornie, gluttony), Gourmandise is a super gluttonous collection whilst being at the same time an ode to Italy and ‘Made in Italy’. “I wanted to interpret chocolate through upholstery,” says its creator Saverio Calia (the Creative Director of Calia Italia), who, while presenting it, has the dreamy expression of someone who has a weakness for sweets and appreciates the all-Italian mastery inherent in his art. This is a collection for true connoisseurs that starts with cocoa and reaches the melting sensation of chocolate, thereby generating an entire family of models – each one more irresistible than the last. By seeing chocolate not only as a precious and sumptuous food but also as an icon of taste and style, Calia Italia draws upon the world of chocolate to give life to Gianduiotto, Cremino, Dragees, Gianduia and Pralin – all whilst imagining how you might want to welcome your guests with a tempting tray of chocolates. The central theme running through the entire collection is the base that represents the ‘tray’ on which the ‘chocolates’ are offered. These in turn are represented by the backrests and armrests of the individual models, which share the same shape and design but differ in size. The star of the collection is ‘Gianduiotto’, with cushions and backrests that evoke the Turin chocolate of the same name, famous throughout the world for its delicacy and unmistakable elongated shape reminiscent of an ingot. Calia Italia presents a collection of products that intrigue, attract, seduce and delight. The models are designed to create a comfort experience that can be enjoyed to the point of abandoning one’s senses, indeed the triumph of the aesthetics of desire. From formal conversation to the most undisciplined relaxation, from indoor to outdoor and from the structured product to the model yet to be built – the Gourmandise Collection expresses the desire to live your sofa in an intense way, satiating tastes and whims. GIANDUIOTTO JR Theson of collection leading ‘Gianduiotto’, ‘Gianduiotto Jr’ is a deconstructed sofa, designed to create informal moments of total relaxation. The base, which characterises the entire collection, represents the tray on which the seat rests. The back cushions recall the shape of chocolates and, like the seat, are embellished with a stitching effect. Soft and cosy padding completes the comfort experience of the model. DRAGÉES Dragées (from the French ‘confetti’) is the more structured variant of the ‘Gianduiotto’. Although inspired by the Gianduiotto’s backrests and armrests, the Dragées customises them by increasing their height to provide a more composed and supported comfort. It is a model of extreme elegance, raised from the ground and featuring a very thin base on which the backrests and armrests rest directly and are enriched by a decorative stitching. They are like unique pieces of chocolate, all ready to be enjoyed, as if on an elegant tray, one after the other. GIANDUIA The ‘Gianduia’, with its generous, rounded volumes, evokes the most envied and desired chocolate and hazelnut cream in all of Italy. The backrests and armrests retain their decorative stitching and seem to melt and merge onto the generous rounded seats, which are also inspired by Gianduiotti. Even the base is semi-closed, as if to feel the ‘weight’ of so much sweetness. The seat is lower and deeper for a decidedly enveloping comfort and the armrest rests on the seat and is connected at the back to the backrest, with which it merges into a single piece of chocolate just waiting to be wrapped. CREMINO The ‘Cremino’ celebrates the melt-in-the-mouth nature of the famous Piedmontese chocolate and is the deconstructed model par excellence, characterised by the unbridled gluttony of those who cannot do without it. Just like the chocolate from which it takes its name, the seat of the ‘Cremino’ (barely raised by slender wooden feet) is reminiscent of the square composed of layers of gianduia and hazelnut chocolate. The multifaceted shapes of the modular seat, which also serves as a base, enhance the diversity of the chocolate’s colours and flavours and differ from each other in a multiplicity of modules with sculptural geometries and rounded corners. It is also joined by a ‘Knot footstool’ and ‘table base’. The backrests, with two different sizes, follow this same freedom and enhance it by having a weighted base that makes them freely positionable. The backrests, decorative cushions, footstool and bucket backrest (enriched by a decorative border) recall in their shape all the chocolates from the Gourmandise collection as well as truffles and chocolate sheets. The ‘Cremino’, using all the delicacies of traditional Italian chocolate, is designed as a sofa for the middle of the room and invites you to enjoy comfort in all possible ways. The individual modules can be taken apart and the cushions and backrests can be moved, placed on the floor or scattered around the house, according to the most diverse needs – meaning that you can modulate your space in innovative and flexible ways. The different sized bases can be used individually, side by side or combined with special pieces (dormeuse base and chaise-longue base) or even interspersed with ‘corner bases’ that allow you to create a variety of configurations with just a few elements. Finally, the ‘Knot footstool’ represents the terminal or intermediate element between two bases and can be equipped with a wooden table top. PRALIN Inspired by the delicious hazelnut praline cream, the ‘Pralin’ model is a soft and silky continuous surprise. With its slender, semi-closed base resting on small, concealed mahogany-finished wooden feet, ‘Pralin’ is the modular, deconstructed sofa par excellence. All the individual elements that make it up are removable and rest on the base just like chocolates on a tray. ‘Pralin’ is the most versatile model in the collection as it can be completely disassembled. It can be composed in multiple versions that include (in addition to the corner and square corner) the terminal or terminal meridian versions as well as the island version that acts as an actual day bed. The model also includes a round table that can be inserted between the seats as a base and decorative element. All that remains is to choose your desired comfort and enjoy it in total relaxation. Share 0 Related posts 28 October 2021 Italia opens its second store in Rome: What to know, news and collections Read more 30 August 2021 Salone del Mobile di Milano 2021: collections and exclusive products presented by Calia Italia at the Supersalone Read more 30 June 2021 ‘Salone del Mobile.Milano 2021’: Calia Italia presents its products on the Salone’s brand new digital platform Read more CONTACTS Offices Registered office: via Gregorio VII 386 00165 Roma Italy Operating unit: C.da Serritello La Valle snc 75100 Matera Italy Tel +39 0835 3031 Fax +39 0835 388266 Calia Italia Marketing and Communication marketing@caliatrade.com Privacy Policy Calia Trade S.p.a P.IVA: IT00510720774