Opacmare, producers of accessories and components in steel and aluminium for yachts and superyachts, presented at this year’s autumn boat shows an all new brand – home design – dedicated to interior and exterior furnishings that meet with the expectations of not only the boating world but also that of hotel facilities and private homes.
The home design line, created to complement Opacmare’s range of accessories and components for yachts, is rapidly becoming a veritable collection of interior and exterior furnishings perfect not only for yachts but also for private homes and public establishments such as bars, restaurants, hotels and discotheques.
Two furnishing lines have already been debuted at the Cannes Boat Show: Ice Island and Africa -both conceived and designed by Sandrine Thibaud, CEO and Roberto Sacco’s wife, together with Michele Grimaldi – designer and long-time partner – who skilfully guided Opacmare’s technical team throughout the development of each and every element. Dining tables, coffee and cocktail tables, seats, stools, bar and reception isles: the phenomenal success enjoyed by Opacmare’s designers and project managers further stimulated Thibaud and Grimaldi’s creative spirit, who will be presenting more novelties and optional uses for these elegant, practical designer furnishings at the Genoa Boat Show.
Opacmare’s Ice Island furnishing line – Credit Opacmare
Opacmare’s decision to venture into a new area of stainless steel processing is on-going proof that an economic crisis like the one encountered during the past year can only be counteracted by investing in research and design, creativity, diversification and the courage to explore new market opportunities.
Ice Island Collection
Practical, versatile, elegant and functional – all distinctive traits regarding the Ice Island collection. The first collection from Opacmare home design includes round tables, chairs and stools in stainless steel and Plexiglas. All ranging in height to meet with the needs of the various environments for which they are destined, complete with a full array of accessories. Accessories allowing transformations worthy of Arturo Brachetti: tables and stools designed for the flybridge, cockpit and dinette on a boat, lounges, terraces, gardens and pool sides of private homes as well as discothèques, and the décors of bars and restaurants.
Idea and design
The creative idea, conceived by Sandrine Thibaud, was to create a table that would resolve a number of ‘practical problems’ regarding life aboard a yacht, conscious of how difficult it is to keep cool, and above all secure, bottles and glasses!
The Ice Island project, protected by four patents, has given life to a designer table offering the possibility of having a bottle on ice readily to hand, somewhere to place a glass without worrying that it will fall together with a safe place for ladies to hang their handbags.
Whether at sea or anchored in port, chatting with friends while offering appetizers and drinks cooled to perfection, without worrying about swapping or sliding glasses, couldn’t be easier.
The base of the table is equipped with floor fixing hooks while the Plexiglas table top has been carved to securely accommodate eight or more chalices of various forms, each inscribed with a different symbol making it easy for guests to identify which is theirs.
Space for a double walled glacette bottle cooler has been incorporated in the centre of the table. The air chamber formed between the Plexiglas container and the ice bucket allows the ice to be conserved for much longer and avoids any annoying drips caused by the condensation. When the glacette is not needed the hole in the centre (Ø 28 cm) can be used to accommodate a plant or vase of flowers or simply closed with a lid that lies perfectly flat with the table. The particular design of the table stand resembles that of a coral reef whose branches provide an ingenious secure hold for a lady’s handbag – an ideal solution for both guests on a boat and also very handy in crowded public places.
The composition
The tables have a central stand in polished stainless steel which can be coupled to a conical base complete with eyelets or a serrated fixing cup. Table tops are available in various shapes and sizes: round (Ø 60 – 80 – 110cm) or oval in transparent anti-scratch 15mm Plexiglas.
Options
Tables, coffee tables, chairs and stools are all in stainless steel with tops in either Plexiglas or glass though an infinite number of custom materials and sizes are also possible.
The tables are available in three different heights (60, 75 and 110 cm). Bases and stands can be in brushed stainless steel, chrome plated steel, copper covered steel or lacquered to customer requirements. Tops may be requested in aluminium, polished or lacquered stainless steel, transparent, opaque or silk screened glass. All tables (low, medium, high) may also be supplied with additional larger tops – round (Ø 70 and 90 cm), oval (90 and 110 cm), and square (70 and 90 cm) that securely lock on to purpose made grooves on the main table. The cocktail table can therefore be transformed into a dining table accommodating three or four people. High tables may also be fitted with footrests upon request.
Steel plates, carved as per the theme of the table stand, and additional shaped to fit perfectly tops can link an infinite number of tables, complete with matching open view free standing serving table, to create modular choreographic islands particularly suited to restaurant and bar dehors and discotheques.
All tables are supplied with low or high stools (45 and 75 cm) with a steel base upholstered in leather, eco-leather or Alcantara as per customers’ preferences in style and colour.
Africa Collection
Tiger Table
Having lunch with a tiger resting at your feet could be just a little worrying but Opacmare’s Tiger Table, from the new home design collection, will leave you feeling perfectly at ease.
The table’s spectacular stainless steel carved base, formed with four intersecting plates, depicts the face of a roaring tiger: the design is perfectly visible from all angles and beautifully enhances the oval transparent glass top which easily accommodates up to ten guests.
The Tiger Table is but the first to debut from the Africa collection, revealing Sandrine Thibaud’s attraction to the African Continent: soon to be followed by the Baobab Table, which recaptures the intersecting branches and majesty of this secular tree native to the Savannah and the Mother Africa Table, with a base portraying an ardent feminine face
A distinctive table, exquisite and majestic, well suited to spacious environments. A large oval 10 mm thick glass top rests on four 10 mm plates of carved stainless steel depicting the face of a tiger. The glass top may have either two or three (Ø 28 cm) holes along its diameter, those nearest the edges to hold thermal containers while the one in the middle can be used to accommodate flowers or simply become a decorative part of the top. Each double walled Plexiglas glacette accommodates an ice bucket with handle. The air chamber formed between the two containers helps to maintain an ideal temperature for longer and eliminates the usual inconvenient drips of condensation.
This table can be accompanied by contemporary style seats in stainless steel upholstered in leather, eco-leather, Alcantara or zebra printed fabric.
