Ottavo
Form Us With Love, 2025
Ottavo is a modular table system built around an octagonal central leg, whose geometry allows for eight connection directions. Made of extruded aluminium, it combines lightness, strength and durability for indoor and outdoor use. Its flexible configuration allows surfaces at the same or different heights to create compositions ranging from simple arrangements to more articulated layouts. Designed to adapt to a variety of spaces, from work environments to hospitality and outdoor settings, Ottavo is a versatile system that evolves with changing needs.
Form Us With Love
Form Us With Love is an international design studio founded in 2005. At the core of its practice lies a process that combines traditional creative methods with a lean and strategic approach. Its main objective is to evolve alongside the needs of each project, its position within the market, and the constantly changing needs of people. The studio designs with a clear purpose: to improve life as a whole. This is a broad and complex vision, in which progress is understood as a continuous balance between advancement and challenge. The needs of people differ from those of businesses, even though they often overlap; at the same time, every solution designed for the planet must also be evaluated in relation to its long-term impact. For this reason, numerous factors are considered when designing a product, with sustainability playing a central role. Every solution developed also contributes to expanding the studio’s body of knowledge, ensuring that each new challenge benefits from previous experience rather than starting from scratch. The studio aims to create meaningful change through an understanding of industry and culture, promoting systemic transformations with implications across different sectors of life. To achieve this, it identifies industrial opportunities capable of addressing social needs and develops solutions characterized by a balanced use of resources. The result is the creation of necessary, high-quality products that support business growth while generating real change.
Mechanical coupling of the elements
The name Ottavo reveals its deeply geometric and functional nature: the load-bearing structure revolves around an innovative central octagonal leg, designed to offer eight distinct directions for development and connection. The secret behind this extraordinary modularity lies in the aluminium extrusion process. This material not only guarantees a perfect balance between structural lightness and extreme resistance, but is also naturally corrosion-proof, making the system ideal for both indoor and outdoor applications. Precise technical grooves run along the sides of the octagonal column: these invisible tracks allow not only for the rapid attachment of dedicated accessories, but also serve as connection nodes for joining multiple modules together.
Compositions
The complex prototyping phase made it possible to explore and push the limits of the system’s potential, introducing a key concept: the management of multiple tops. Ottavo ceases to be perceived as a single surface and transforms into a reactive architectural element. The multidirectional extruded aluminium structure allows for the integration, within a single configuration, of tables at the same height to create extended shared surfaces, or for playing with levels and varying heights, generating forms that range from the minimalist to the purely sculptural. This compositional freedom translates into a flexible design, capable of adapting effortlessly to ever-evolving environments while always maintaining a scenographic presence of great visual impact.
Ottavo in use
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