Design by: Helio Piñón

MORELLA BIN is an elegant litterbin with a powerful geometry that seems to float above the ground. It takes the form of a corten steel suspended cylinder. The above-pavement installation includes recessed attachment bolts. An articulated stainless steel ring is used to attach and hold the plastic litter bags. Optionally, this bin can be complemented with an ashtray made of the same material with a removable tray in stainless steel.

There is no better way to suspend a cylinder than to hang it by a tangential post, and this litter bin & ashtray combination is essentially a set of two cylinders projecting their own support downwards to meet the ground. MORELLA BIN is part of the MORELLA series, designed in 2000 by architect Helio Piñón in conjunction with Escofet.

The MORELLA series emerged with the idea of creating a suite of professionally-built street furniture, consistent in their form and genuine in their character. Produced in Corten steel because of its natural finish and its quality appearance, the MORELLA Series has been designed to withstand the test of time, guaranteed by its materiality and manifested by its aesthetic. The elementary character of this series makes it predisposed to relate to its surroundings, triggering more complex spatial relations, unlike some other street furniture that is only aimed at focusing on itself.

The MORELLA Series, named after the city for which these items were conceived, became a feature of public spaces emerging with a monumental purpose. This purpose was seeking the timeless design essence that bestows permanence. The quality of the series permits an extension of its use to historic areas, where the textures and the environments generated by superimposed cultures and times should not impose themselves.