DESIGNER, ARCHITECT
“To become a ‘machine’, basically every mechanism needs a body, that is, the outer ‘furniture’ with which to express and organize itself so that it can be comprehensible to us and enter into a relationship with us and our domestic landscape” (Mario Bellini, 1987).
Bellini came up with the name Camaleonda as an amalgamation of two words that aptly describe both the shape and function of the sofa. The first comes from the Italian word “camaleonte”, which means “chameleon” (an animal able to adapt to the environment around it), and the second is “onda”, meaning “wave”.
