Béton Collection
With the Béton Collection, SABI introduces a new design typology – pet furniture – ensuring that even the most everyday rituals match the aesthetics of Australian homes.
As pets become more intrinsic to the rhythms of our lives, the gap between our thoughtfully designed spaces and the objects our pets use each day feels increasingly disparate. SABI emerged from this cultural moment, with a recognition that the products our pets live with deserve the same level of consideration we grant to the rest of our homes. In place of accessories, the brand imagines something more deliberate: objects conceived as part of the interior landscape, shaped with the same sensibility and intention we bring to furniture. This became the foundation for what SABI calls pet furniture – sculptural, tactile forms designed to belong, not simply exist, within a room.
This philosophy first began to take shape in late 2022, when SABI founders Nicholas Gala and Antonio Inzitari started sketching an idea that felt long overdue: what if a pet bowl could behave like a small piece of architecture; not as an afterthought, but a grounded expressive object with presence and purpose? One sketch led to another and, by 2023, the pair had partnered with Vert Design Studio in Sydney to bring this idea into being.
The Béton Collection is the first expression of this vision. Drawing from the quietly monumental forms of brutalist architecture, the sculptural bowls and elegant leather feeding mats settle into a room with a sense of calm strength. The bowl comprises a weighted concrete outer vessel that holds a double-walled, stainless-steel bowl with a silicone base. The steel bowl’s surface – either brushed to a soft sheen or rendered in a quiet matte – introduces a distinct material language to the composition, creating a dialogue between metal and concrete, lightness and mass, curve and edge. Used together or on their own, the bowls read less as items of function and more as companion pieces, continuing the sculptural rhythm established by the vessel.
Cast in tones that echo Sydney’s material palette – the poised balance of mid-grey, the warmth of sandstone, the depth of charcoal black – the vessels feel at once grounded and atmospheric, carrying their colour through their core like stone cut from a single block. “The vessels are more akin to a small plinth or basin than a typical pet product,” says Nicholas Gala. “In both plan and elevation, they are calm, strong and assured, anchoring the ritual of feeding.”
Completing the ensemble is the feeding mat, composed in Saffiano leather with a subtle, structured grain that introduces another layer of tactility. More than a surface, it behaves like a small footprint – a defined area that lends clarity and composure to the space around it, allowing the ritual of feeding to sit comfortably within a room.
Together, these elements form a quiet constellation at floor level – considered, expressive, and deeply at ease. Rather than interrupting the room, they become part of its language: a moment of pause, a point of connection, a gesture that acknowledges the bond shared between person and pet.
This is the role SABI hopes to play within this broader cultural shift: to reimagine the objects of a pet’s life with the same restraint, depth and emotional intelligence that guide the spaces we create for ourselves. When a SABI piece meets the floor, it should feel instantly at home – a natural extension of the room, and a daily reminder of the companionship at its heart.
