Where the Bonaldo 90 story is being published — live links, the archived article of record, and what is still to come.
WWD advertorial — not yet published. Sally’s team is finalising the wording (Advertorial No.7 EN/TH); it arrives separately and is checked against the chef’s written confirmation before sign-off. WWD runs only after the website article below is declared final.
Website article — live on olivia-living.com, posted 9 Oct as “temporary, for review” and reviewed & approved from Chef Andy’s side the same day. Both pages are indexed by Google, so the URLs are treated as locked.
Approved. Checked against Content Pack v1.6: “bearing Alain Gilles’ signature” (never “hand-signed”) · brittle never called a “crunch” · founding town correct (Villanova di Camposampiero, Padua) · exclusivity properly scoped to Thailand through 2028 · “no waiting list and no application” · the food paragraph matches the chef’s written confirmation almost word for word · the kayasart photo caption credits Chef Andy.
Accepted variation: the article says “Thailand’s first US Michelin-starred chef (Rhong-Tiam, New York)” rather than the locked “Thailand’s first US Michelin star.” Chef Andy reviewed and accepted this on 9 Oct. Closed — do not reopen.
Flagged to PP (cosmetic, their side): a stray menu item on the collection page links to their WordPress admin screen; and the two pages frame exclusivity differently (“no waiting list” vs “never sold off a showroom floor”) — their call which voice wins.
Captured 9 Oct 2026 from the live page, kept here so the team can see exactly what was approved. The Nas copy is OL_WEBSITE_BONALDO90_ARTICLES_ARCHIVE_2026-10-09.md.
On 1 October 2026, Bonaldo Space by OL Atelier on Sukhumvit 39 hosted The Legacy of Motion, a private evening marking the 90th anniversary of Bonaldo, the Italian furniture house founded in 1936 by blacksmith Giovanni Vittorio Bonaldo in Villanova di Camposampiero, in Italy’s Padua region.
At the heart of the evening was The Series of Years: nine editions of the Cross Lounge Chair by Belgian designer Alain Gilles, commissioned by Bonaldo, one for every decade since 1936. Each is dressed in materials, upholstery and finish drawn from one decade of Bonaldo’s own history, and each carries a solid brass plaque bearing Alain Gilles’ signature and the words “Made in Italy. Understood in Bangkok.”
Chair No. I — 2016–2026: The Synthesis — was unveiled that night. Finished in Mat Bronze with a textured, multi-tonal fabric, it was fitted with its plaque by Alberto Bonaldo, third-generation owner of the house, by hand, in front of the room. It will remain permanently at Bonaldo Space. It is not for sale.
“In ninety years, we have never let a curator choose who receives our work. Tonight, we did.”— Alberto Bonaldo
Through 2028, OL Atelier holds the exclusive curatorial presentation rights for The Series of Years in Thailand. The remaining eight chairs are being completed individually. Each will go to someone chosen because that decade is already theirs — a birth year, a parent’s story, a memory. There is no waiting list and no application.
“Ninety years isn’t a number you put on a banner. It’s nine decades, and every one of them looked and felt different. Alain gave each of them its own chair. My job is deciding who’s ready to hold one.”— Sairoong “Sally” P., Curator, OL Atelier
The evening was told through a designer, a chef and musicians. Guests arrived to silhouettes of Bangkok — tuk-tuks, street-food stalls, temples — moving across the walls in projection mapping, as if ninety years of Bonaldo had just arrived in the city.
Alain Gilles then appeared on screen, his signature having travelled ahead of him.
Pistachio gelato was spun to order in front of guests, before master ranat player Ajarn Khun In Narong Tosanga played alongside Italian-style opera sung by Dr. Fueanglada Prawang Carlson.
Throughout the night, the food came from Chef Andy Yang, Thailand’s first US Michelin-starred chef (Rhong-Tiam, New York), who read Bonaldo’s Italian heritage through a Thai lens — from village betel leaf to a parting gift of salted caramel pistachio brittle fused with kayasart, the Thai harvest-festival sweet, presented as a pezzo da museo: a museum piece you are permitted to eat.
Chair No. I can be seen at Bonaldo Space by OL Atelier, 29 Sukhumvit 39, Wattana, Bangkok 10110. For anyone who feels a decade already belongs to them, the Curator offers one-to-one conversations about all nine decades. Visits by appointment: +66 96 880 9898 · LINE @olivialiving
Title tag: Bonaldo 90 in Bangkok — The Legacy of Motion | OL Atelier · robots: index, follow · foot of page carries a related-advertorial card for The Series of Years.
Their Series of Years page is OL’s own-domain version of our event-site landing — the same one-chair-per-screen walk from 2026 back to 1936, each chair with its own subpage (“Discover the chair in motion”). Closing lines: “Commissioned, curated, and never sold off a showroom floor. Selection comes first — always.”
| Edition | Decade | Name |
|---|---|---|
| I / IX | 2016–2026 | The Synthesis |
| II / IX | 2006–2015 | Architectural Deconstruction |
| III / IX | 1996–2005 | The Millennium Form |
| IV / IX | 1986–1995 | High-Tech Boom |
| V / IX | 1976–1985 | Post-Modern Play |
| VI / IX | 1966–1975 | Radical Pop & Color |
| VII / IX | 1956–1965 | Mid-Century Industrial |
| VIII / IX | 1946–1955 | The Organic Curve |
| IX / IX | 1936–1945 | The Root & Craft |