Around the table, since 1954
Italian game tables with a character of their own: maple and grey oak, glass playfields, ometti and segnapunti. Table football, table tennis and air hockey, supplied by NRG Fitness.
Garlando in brief
The Garlando story
Garlando begins not with a table, but with wood. In the 1920s, Giovanni Garlando works in a joinery workshop in Spinetta Marengo, in the Italian province of Alessandria. That is where the craftsmanship everything later rests on is built up.
Around 1950, his son Renato meets the Frenchman Marcel Zosso, who wants to bring table football to Italy. Renato has the wood, the machinery and an eye for the game. In 1954, Renato and Francesca Romana Garlando officially found the company.
After that the range grows from table football to billiards, table tennis, air hockey and outdoor games. Since the end of 2002, production has been based in Pozzolo Formigaro.
1920s
Giovanni Garlando makes wooden products in Spinetta Marengo, province of Alessandria.
1954
Renato and Francesca Romana Garlando officially found the company.
2002
Production moves to its current location in Piedmont.
Two worlds
The Classics
Table football
Table football is the heart of Garlando. The G-2000 Evolution wears the black-and-silver hi-tech styling of the Evolution line: a cabinet in 2.5 cm fibreboard, a sandblasted glass playfield of 120 × 70 cm and 16 mm rods, either solid through-rods or telescopic.
The ometti stand in fixed formation, the segnapunti hang above the goals. Four 4 cm MDF legs splay outwards for stability, with adjustable feet to level the table. Ball entries on both sides. Complete, 143 × 76 × 88 cm and 75 kg.
Choosing your table
Advice from NRG Fitness, based on the specifications of the models we supply.
Design & materials
G-2000 Evolution
The playfield is sandblasted glass, 120 × 70 cm, with sloping plastic inserts in the corners. More grip on the ball than a smooth laminate panel.
F-200 Maple
A 5 mm tempered glass top with screen-printed white lines on green, so the playfield resembles a football pitch. Baskets behind each goal return the ball straight away.
F-200 Evolution
Machined hollow steel rods with an anti-rust chrome-platinum finish and 2 mm wall thickness, available as through-rods or telescopic.
F-5 Grey Oak
Through-rods in solid iron with a 13 mm diameter, and an MDF playfield with a grass effect and raised corners.
F-2 Grey Oak
Beech gave way to maple, cherry to grey oak. The Evolution line adds a black-and-silver finish alongside them.
Design & Style
In 2014, for its sixtieth anniversary, Garlando drew up the Design & Style line: sixteen football tables with patterns borrowed from fashion. Houndstooth, tartan, animal print, deco and various military shades, each with its own colours for the ometti, the segnapunti and the playfield. From the same period come Exclusive, with a cabinet in wenge and aluminium, and Image, clad entirely in mirror glass.
These models are not part of the NRG range. They do show how Garlando looks at a game table: as furniture that furnishes a room, not as a piece of sports equipment.
Play & Communicate
Garlando turned the G-500 into a campaign vehicle. Hundreds of brands had the cabinet finished in their own colours and logo; Garlando itself speaks of more than three thousand graphic projects. The playfield became an advertising surface that people willingly gather around.
From the same tradition comes Stadium, from the late 1970s: a seven-metre football table for eleven a side, from an idea by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and built by Garlando. According to Garlando, the work has been shown at Tate Modern in London, among other places.
Table tennis
Official match size, 274 × 152.5 × 76 cm. The difference lies in the top, the frame and where the table is allowed to stand.
Indoor
For intensive use: 100 kg, a frame of 30 mm powder-coated metal with extra reinforcement and a top of 19 mm chipboard with a melamine coating and anti-glare layer. The ECS system opens and closes the playing surface in one movement. The net and posts on this table are ITTF-approved. Eight wheels with brakes, adjustable feet up to 30 mm.
Outdoor
Suitable for outdoor use: a 4 mm melamine top with a 36 mm surrounding tube profile and a frame of 25 mm powder-coated metal. Folds away on four fully rotating twin wheels, and the net can stay in place. Folding one side allows solo play. 50 kg.
The Games
Alongside the classics, Garlando has a second world: The Games. Air hockey and multi-game tables, with a different geometry and a different tempo.
The Stratos is the largest model: 213.5 × 122 cm overall, a playing surface of 193 × 102 cm and 100 kg. Cabinet and legs in 16 mm MDF with chrome-plated profiles, handrails reinforced with an aluminium layer, a 3 mm playing surface with air holes and a powerful blower beneath. Electronic scoreboard, four pushers and four pucks.
Sport & Leisure
Garlando reaches beyond the game table. Outdoor Games covers trampolines, basketball posts, football goals and swings.
At NRG Fitness the Combi trampoline line runs from 140 cm to 427 cm, with safety net. Alongside those, height-adjustable basketball posts and football goals from garden size up to 300 × 200 cm.
Garlando × NRG Fitness
NRG Fitness supplies the Garlando range to private customers and businesses. Torn between models, rod types or sizes? Get in touch.
See the game tables in the NRG Fitness showroom at Vang 4-6 in Halsteren.
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