Bronze Kitchenware · 2025
Tone Tableware Collection
by Ozkan Koral
- Bronze A' Design Award 2025 in Kitchenware
- CLIENT: Bonna Premium Porcelain
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About Tone Tableware Collection
Tone is a tableware collection designed for restaurants, hotels and catering use. The collection includes eleven items, from 100 to 360 millimetres wide and 15 to 70 millimetres high. Each piece has a mildly scalloped, organic form inspired by sea shells and waves of the Mediterranean. Three matched reactive glazes are offered, named Sahara, Blush and Adelfa. The pieces are made of a premium vitrified body that is fired once with low energy use, giving high durability and almost no water absorption. The items stack for compact storage.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Tone Tableware Collection is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Tone Tableware Collection is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Tone Tableware Collection splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The new mildly scalloped, mediterranean inspired, vitrified collection by Bonna; comes with 3 well matched reactive glazes.
Sahara, Blush, and Adelfa.
With minimal energy consumption during production, Bonna's new premium vitrified body used in Tone has nearly same durability values as porcelain and almost zero water absorption.
Therefore, besides the ceramic workshop feel and sustainability , the collection also fullfills the main requirements of Horeca sector; such as functional sizes and volumes, long life cycle and stackability; by which excelling competitors. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The collection consists of 11 different tableware items. The sizes differ from 100 to 360 mm wide and 15 to 70 mm height. The collection, which consists of 11 different stoneware items so far, aims to offer perfect solutions
to many different environments with its easily adaptable,
slightly abstract design language.
Also perfectly matched with round scalloped dishes
and amorph complementaries of Bonna and other companies; which gives the user an open end mix&match compatibility. - Tags
- sustainable, mediterranean, vitrified, bonna, ceramic, tableware, premium, casual dining, boutique, horeca
- Production Technology
- All Tone collection members are made of premium vitrifed body. With minimal energy consumption and low carbon emissions during production, Tone is an environmentally friendly product family with Bonna’s once fired premium vitrified body. Its ceramic workshop feel, durability and stackability compared to ceramic products
provide a visually pleasing, functional, long life and environmentally satisfying experience. - Design Challenge
- To combine a hand made ceramic feeling with a mass produced product family is a real challenge for a design process like in Tone collection. The main goal was to have better results in terms of sustainability, stackability and longer life span due to harder material and glazes compared to similar ceramic products.
- Research
- Having online and face to face surveys with sector professionals, chefs and restaurant owners before and through the design process for feedbacks and a valuable starting point gave the product family a solid foundation for real needs in terms of dimensions and visual integrity. The mediterranean inspiration also lead to reflect the design language from local to global perspective easily.
- Inspiration
- Tone Collection takes its inspiration from the Mediterranean and the lands surrounding it.
Bringing together the deep cultural heritage of the coastal countries by combining the rythm of music,
local dance and calm waves with memorable tones of Mediterranean landscapes, the collection promises
an experience specific to Coastal Boutique and Fine Dining Restaurants.
Organic form of Tone collection takes inspiration from
scalloped sea shells as well as flamenco dresses and waves of Mediterranean. - Project Duration
- The project took around 6 months to design and see the productions of first prototypes at second half of 2023. It is exhibited in 2024 Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt first.
- Operation Flow
- The collection promises an experience
specific to Coastal Boutique and Casual Fine Dining Restaurants. Besides providing a visually pleasing ceramic workshop feel and sustainability , the collection also fullfills
the main requirements of Horeca sector; such as functional sizes and volumes for a wide variety of occasions,
long life cycle and stackability; by which excelling other ceramic products. Design aims to offer perfect solutions
to many different environments with its easily adaptable,
slightly abstract design language.
Also perfectly matched with round scalloped dishes
and amorph complementaries of Bonna and other companies; which gives the user open end mix&match compatibility. - Patents
- Design copyrights pending, Özkan Koral, 2024.
- Image Credits
- Özkan Koral
