Opinion Ciatti
Ptolomeo Shelf Extension
Original Ptolomeo is the free-standing bookcase that doesn’t require any further presentation: it is essential, revolutionary, innovative, as sudden as an intuition and as surprising as its success. Original Ptolomeo is a container that hides its shape to enhance its content, eliminating the “superfluous” to highlight the essential, namely the books. The bookcase is a steel column to which thin shelves, also in steel, are attached.
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Opinion Ciatti
Ptolomeo Shelf Extension
Original Ptolomeo is the free-standing bookcase that doesn’t require any further presentation: it is essential, revolutionary, innovative, as sudden as an intuition and as surprising as its success. Original Ptolomeo is a container that hides its shape to enhance its content, eliminating the “superfluous” to highlight the essential, namely the books. The bookcase is a steel column to which thin shelves, also in steel, are attached.
Our design consultants are ready to help. Our online store is just a small edit of our full collection, for more options and information on sizes, fabrics and finishes, please visit us in-store or enquire now.
Opinion Ciatti
Opinion Ciatti is internationally renowned for its ranges of furniture and storage systems that are often modifiable and modular in composition. Within the Opinion Ciatti collection are icons of contemporary design including the Ptolomeo; the revolutionary bookcase designed by Bruno Rainaldi that quite literally turned the traditional bookcase on its side and earned the prestigious ADI Compasso d'Oro Award 2004.
Bruno Rainaldi
Bruno Rainaldi was born in Milan in 1952. His training was hands-on, having started at a young age to work in design communication. In his early years in Milan he managed the first High-Tech emporium in Corso di Porta Ticinese, moving on to work first alongside Maddalena De Padova in the historical showroom in Corso Venezia and then with Enrico Baleri as partner in Baleri & Associati, where he was in charge of defining communication strategies for design companies and stores. His beginnings as an autodidact encouraged him in later life to ironically and anti-celebratively define himself as a “street designer” and his style as “chaotically rigorous”.
Amongst the numerous pieced designed there is the Ptolomeo bookshelf, for which, in 2004, he was awarded the Compasso d’Oro. In 2006, together with the very young Lapo Ciatti, who had just entered the family business, he founded Opinion Ciatti, of which Bruno Rainaldi was President, partner and art director.
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