Ronda Design Brings Its Italian Magnetic Wall System to 101domus

Ronda Design Brings Its Italian Magnetic Wall System to 101domus

A distinctly technical voice has joined the 101domus platform. Ronda Design built its identity around a genuinely singular idea: an Italian magnetic wall system that lets shelves, accessories and lighting be positioned freely across a metal wall panel, held in place by magnetic force alone rather than fixed brackets or visible hardware. For architects, interior designers and FF&E buyers looking for a storage and display solution that can be reconfigured as a project evolves, Ronda Design offers something genuinely rare in luxury furniture: a system built to be rearranged, not just installed.

The idea did not arrive from a design studio moodboard alone. Founded in 2009 as the design laboratory of the Ronda Group and led today by Marida Ronda, the company draws on more than half a century of the group's metalworking expertise, channelled into furniture rather than industrial components. That background shows in how the collection is built: panels, frames and mechanisms engineered first for precision and durability, with the aesthetic language of bookcases, tables, chairs and lighting layered on afterward, all handcrafted in Zanè, Italy. It is a working method closer to precision manufacturing than to a conventional cabinetmaking workshop, and it shows in the tolerances the magnetic mechanism itself depends on: a shelf has to hold securely under real weight while still releasing cleanly the moment a designer decides to move it.

From Metalworking to Magnetic Innovation

Ronda Design's core proposition rests on a simple mechanical premise executed with unusual rigour: a metal wall panel, finished in anything from brushed stainless steel to more experimental textures, onto which shelves, boxes and accessories click into place wherever a room actually needs them. There are no fixed mounting points to plan around in advance and no visible screws once the panel is installed, only a wall that can be rearranged as storage needs, artwork or a client's taste changes over time. It is a proposition that speaks directly to designers working on spaces expected to evolve, rather than being fixed the day a project is handed over — a show apartment that becomes a private residence, a hospitality lobby refreshed between renovations, or simply a family home whose storage needs change as children grow and collections expand.

A Storage System Built Around Magnetic Innovation

The Levia Tall Bookcase shows Ronda Design's magnetic wall panels at their most architectural, its open metal frame reading as a piece of wall-mounted sculpture as much as a place to store books, objects or a client's growing collection. Shelves can be added, removed or repositioned without a single new drill hole, an unusually practical property for a piece pitched at the luxury end of the market, where fixtures are expected to last through several changes of tenant, collection or curatorial intent. Alongside it, the Lapilla Magnetic Wall Lamp extends the same logic into lighting, its fixture held to the wall by the identical magnetic principle that defines the brand, letting a designer move a light source exactly where a room needs it without commissioning new electrical work.

Statement Pieces for Dining and Living Spaces

Away from the wall system, Ronda Design applies the same metalworking confidence to freestanding pieces built to anchor a room. The Roshi Shell Base Dining Table pairs a ceramic top with a sculpted metal base, its curved silhouette suited to a dining room where the table itself is expected to be the first thing a guest notices. The Ghanta Lounge Curved Sofa takes the same sculptural confidence into upholstery, its enveloping curve built for a hotel lobby, private lounge or reception area rather than a conventional living room corner.

Finishing Touches for Considered Interiors

The smaller pieces in the Ronda Design catalogue carry the same material confidence into the details of a scheme. The Asteria Sideboard brings the brand's metalwork into a storage piece built for a dining room or hallway, its finish chosen to sit comfortably alongside the more experimental pieces in the collection. The Ark Wide Mirror completes a room with a considered reflective surface rather than an afterthought, its frame built with the same attention given to the brand's larger architectural pieces.

For 101domus's network of architects, interior designers and procurement professionals furnishing residential, hospitality and contract spaces across the Gulf, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, Ronda Design adds a manufacturer whose core innovation — genuinely reconfigurable metal wall storage, held by magnetic force alone — answers a need that most Italian furniture houses do not address at all: interiors built to be changed, not simply finished. It is furniture engineered first and styled second, the product of a company willing to rethink what a wall is actually for — and, for a project team planning years rather than months ahead, a rare assurance that a scheme can keep evolving long after the installation itself is finished.