A new sofa system designed by Antonio Citterio, Noonu is a project created to continue and complete the journey started in 2018 with Atoll, told through a new film by B&B Italia.
'Atoll and Noonu stemmed from a single idea, namely a cylinder that could be used as an armrest and cushions,’ remarks Citterio. 'What’s new in Noonu is the apparently suspended seating, which extends all the way to the floor, and the new types of elements that we have defined as ‘piano’ and ‘sail’ elements, lending a certain identity and richness to the design’. The theme of islands started back in the mid-‘80s when B&B Italia invented a selection of new sofa typologies with the Sity line. 'We started referring to sofas as ‘peninsulas’ and ‘islands’, Citterio remarks. 'but that sort of terminology was, at the time, somewhat unusual. Nowadays, they’re part of our everyday vocabulary’.
'Atoll and Noonu stemmed from a single idea, namely a cylinder that could be used as an armrest and cushions.’
Antonio Citterio
The seat is deep, with a single, large seat cushion for comfort and the tilted back is designed to accommodate cushions which can be distributed however you wish. The design is made more intriguing by a support element that can be arranged in a range of positions: a roller cushion bound by sophisticated webbing to a die-cast aluminium frame, which sits beneath the seat cushion. The elements of Noonu are designed to stand on their own as individual objects, combined to create personalised compositions, or in harmony with other pieces to tell a cohesive interior story.
