B-KINI Collection

Paolo Rizzatto, 2025

With B-KINI, Paolo Rizzatto introduces the first cantilever chair in Alias collection. He reinterprets a rationalist design from the 1930s that stands out for its cantilevered seat and characteristic tubular steel frame. The project joins technical rigour and aesthetic sensibility, with a special attention to material innovation and visual lightness.
The style signature by Paolo Rizzatto is reflected in the search for the perfect balance between structure and upholstery, functionality and expressiveness, creating an essential and sophisticated chair.

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B-KINI

B-kini is characterised by a single load-bearing structure out of round-section steel profile and a seat-backrest system made of an easily removable felt band that is closed in a loop by means of an elastic fabric insert. In B-kini the contrast between the materials enhances the purity of the shapes with a design that combines constructive precision and visual lightness. 

"The diversity of the two materials provides a juxtaposition to the simplicity of the two shapes. B-kini arises from this dialogue, a solid, light, elastic, handy, colourful, dressed and interchangeable chair."– Paolo Rizzatto

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Paolo Rizzatto

He was born in Milan in 1941 and graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He works on the construction and interior design of single-family houses and public buildings in Milan, Bologna, Novara, Chieti and Formentera. In 1991, he began his collaboration with Alias, for which he designed the Young Lady armchair, followed by the Young Boy stool in 1993, and the Flexus sofa in 2000. He also designed the New Lady and New Lady Soft chairs in 2018, the Violon armchair in 2022, and the Plettro table collection, which received the Archiproduct Design Award in the same year. Since 1997, he has taught courses in light design at the Domus Academy and the Polytechnic University of Milan, where he lives and works.

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