A tour of 50 Italian luxury furniture brands (Part 1)
Buy a good piece of furniture, and you can use it for a lifetime. People who know how to appreciate it will appreciate it more and more. It does not attract attention or steal the show. It is like a quiet friend, quietly accompanying you, giving you support and understanding, and infecting your life with its connotation. We have introduced 25 top furniture brands from Lombardy, Italy. Today we will continue to illustrate another 25 Italian luxury furniture brands from Tuscany, Veneto, Marche and other regions. I hope you can get useful furniture references from them, so that your home environment can have both quality and taste, whether it is low-key or luxurious.
1. Natuzzi
Natuzzi is the largest furniture manufacturer in Italy and one of the leading brands of leather furniture. The brand is not only an industry expert in leather, but also pays attention to keeping up with the times in the research and development of new materials for upholstery, delivering different creative home concepts and overall home matching.
Natuzzi fabric sofas, with various patterns or classic designs, exquisite craftsmanship, carry more value. Natuzzi perfectly integrates the Italian design style into this soft fabric that is different from leather. The butterfly chair is named after its unique and beautiful fabric and is also one of Natuzzi's best-selling armchairs in the world.
The fabric comes from Florence, a world-renowned textile city. Only 7 meters of fabric can be produced every day (only enough for one and a half chairs). The traditional textile technique is used to weave the concave and convex patterns, making the butterfly pattern lifelike, and the touch is also very soft and smooth, making people feel very comfortable.
2. Ego
The EGO brand originated from a company with 40 years of successful experience in the furniture industry. With its unique design style and hand-made production, it has become a trendsetter in Italian furniture fashion. EGO means "self" in Latin, so the design, materials and craftsmanship of each product are full of "self".
In terms of the selection of sofa materials, EGO has specially processed the leather to retain the original natural patterns of animal skins. Despite the processing, the original characteristics of the leather are still retained. When wrapped on the sofa, it looks natural and smooth, without any feeling of artificiality of industrial products. Oak, iron and glass are used in the selection of furniture surfaces. Special surface materials are made by professional technical workers and attached to the surface of the furniture to integrate with EGO's design, ensuring that each product maintains the original Italian style.
3. Savio Firmino
Savio Firmino is an Italian furniture brand that leads the international home furnishing market. It has exquisite craftsmanship and the most expensive materials; it has won the favor of many celebrities including Russian Prime Minister Putin, Hollywood stars Sharon Stone, Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas and his wife, England football player Michael Owen, and the first Chinese governor of the United States, Gary Locke; it is a well-deserved luxury in the furniture industry.
Crystal, pearl, quartz, bronze, brass, carnelian... Savio Firmino likes to pursue the combination of different precious materials and wood, and choose the most suitable materials for every detail. Savio Firmino products will not give people a sense of bulkiness in visual sense, and all furniture embodies a romantic mood. Its products will find a place in both modern and classical decoration patterns.
There are only a few furniture companies in the world that use real gold and silver to make furniture. In addition to the high cost, it is also difficult to find professional manual operators. For Savio Firmino in Florence, the large number of craftsmen with excellent skills are the most valuable assets. They sandwich gold and silver between two thick layers of leather, and slowly hammer them into the required shape with a hammer. When applying gold, they even use agate as a tool to make the gold pieces more fixed and shiny.
4. Olive
Alivar, an Italian company, started out in 1984 with museum furniture, including selected pieces from LeCorbusier, Eileen Gray, and Eero Saarinen, and has since expanded to modern boutique furniture. Alivar products include sofas, chairs, cabinets, shelves, and coffee tables. Therefore, you can easily decorate your entire office or home with Alivar furniture.
Alivar has many master designers who have formed a unique style in the development of modern home design and successfully promoted the development of modern furniture. At the 2011 Milan International Furniture Fair, Alivar's works mainly included three elements: tulips, surfing and the style of the famous designer Giuseppe Bavuso.
5. Chelini
Founded in the late 19th century, Chelini is an Italian furniture accessories manufacturer that has always been deeply rooted in the heritage of classical art and culture, following the exquisite craftsmanship and classical technical techniques of the Renaissance.
From the Hotel de Pairs and Hermitage in Monaco to the Palace Tornabuoni in Florence, and the San Clemente Palace and Andana Hotel in Venice, all of them have chosen Chelini products to decorate their interiors. In order to cater to the tastes of modern people, Chelini has diversified its styles, rationalized its structures, and made its quality extraordinary. Chelini is still constantly improving and exploring the modern journey of medieval Renaissance.
6. Andrea Fanfani
Italian furniture designer Andrea Fanfani is world-famous for his unique way of using gold and silver foil. Luxury is his recognized charm and magnificence is his temperament. He has inherited the gold-plated gouache painting technique for thousands of years, and he paints on the gold and silver foil inlaid on the furniture, showing his superb skills.
Andrea Fanfani follows the golden rule of traditional furniture making. Whether it is the tables and chairs in the restaurant, living room or bar, they all use elegant curved lines as outlines, which reminds people of many beautiful things in nature, such as dripping dewdrops, willow branches swaying in the wind, and crescent moons hanging on the branches of laurel trees.
7. Dolfi
When you see Dolfi furniture, you will be infected by its rich romantic and artistic atmosphere. As a classical European furniture, Dolfi is not decorated with gold, silver or luxurious jewelry and diamonds. But its noble and elegant temperament is like Audrey Hepburn, an angel who fell into the world, an elegant princess. Its beauty is never coquettish or vulgar. Its elegant and pure beauty cannot be copied and is a treasure of the times.
Almost all of Dolfi's products can be customized in terms of size, color and craftsmanship. The company can also provide customized fabrics based on the customer's drawings and logos. In terms of trade, Dolfi has participated in many international exhibitions in Milan and Verona, giving customers great visual and aesthetic impact.
8. Arflex
Arflex is an Italian company that has always insisted on breakthrough innovation in the field of design. It was founded in 1949 and was considered the most modern design company in Italy at that time. After half a century, this company can still maintain such a high position in the furniture brand kingdom of Italy. In fact, it is not easy. The emphasis on design and new technology is probably the most fundamental reason.
As we all know, Arflex is famous for its cooperation with the famous designer Marco Zanuso to develop and test new materials and new designs. Someone asked Zanuso: "Does the public require new products to have certain dominant features?" Zanuso replied: "I think only when the product design is carefully studied can we better guide and convince the public. Therefore, when designing a product, what should be considered is not the public's requirements, but the needs of the product." It is said that this sentence has become the basic concept of Arflex, which has always been trying to show how important "advanced" design is.
9. Calligaris
Calligaris is the most famous furniture brand in Italy. At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Calligaris was the only furniture brand exhibited in the Italian Pavilion, which shows the pride of Italians in this brand. In 2010, the world-renowned luxury brand Louis Vuitton invested heavily and acquired 40% of Calligaris's shares, becoming the largest shareholder in one fell swoop, which fully confirmed the recognition of the Calligaris brand in the luxury goods field.
With a strong sense of mission for traditional Italian culture and environmental protection, Calligaris uses a careful and special selection process for all dyes used, and uses environmentally friendly materials and planned artificial forests to respect life and nature. By strictly selecting raw materials, considering the humid climate and the raw materials' ability to withstand heavy pressure and water resistance, we have developed high-quality products that stand the test of time and have won the recognition of customers around the world.
10. Arper
ARPER's success can be traced back to 1989, when the company's president, Luigi Feltrin, founded a leather factory, which was organized and managed by his sons Mauro and Claudio. In the late 1990s, ARPER made a major reform, leading ARPER to another design-oriented furniture company, which brought a significant change in the use and scale of materials and technology. Later, in cooperation with the Lievore Altherr Monlina design company, a series of new products were developed, which became another important milestone for ARPER.
This brand of furniture is mainly modern style furniture, featuring flexible geometric shapes and smooth lines. Based on this, it extends the colors and shapes to create a series of works with an overall style, which is quite artistic and individual.
11. Bonaldo
'Living' is an art in the language of Bonaldo, which was founded in 1936, and its culture is reflected in home furnishings. From 1936 to the present, it has inherited three eras of Italian craftsmanship and design, combined with contemporary forward-looking creative design to achieve a 100% perfect combination of design and technology, leading the trend of home innovation.
Perfect artistic expression, unique shape and perfect colors make it a leader in artistic home furnishings. The concept of home does not only focus on living, but also on improving the quality of life.
12. Casamania
CASAMANIA, a brand of the famous furniture company Frezza, was founded in 1984. It excels in making furniture with metal and plastic materials, and is famous for its brilliant colors and unconventional designs, which are full of artistic flavor and have performance advantages.
For example, Him & Her, created by designer Fabio Novembre and available in a variety of colors, is inspired by the Panton Chair and has the same S-shaped structure full of beautiful lines. It also interprets the naked shape of the lower body, demonstrating a high degree of integration between the human body and furniture.
13. Desiree
Desiree, an Italian sofa brand that was incorporated into the Euromobil Group in 1995, has a long and glorious history. Unlike most young brands, it does not rely on sensational and bizarre appearances, nor does it blindly worship big-name designers. Instead, it competes with first-class brands with calm and atmospheric design and ride quality.
It has always pursued high-quality design and craftsmanship, and challenged large furniture manufacturers with a history of more than 100 years with a brand new high-end brand image, and has repeatedly caused topics at the annual Milan Furniture Fair.
The Desiree sofa style, with its plain design lines and casual and natural style, brings a fresh and simple visual experience that is touching.
14. Ointment
Zalf is an Italian company that produces a wide range of furniture for living, bedrooms, home offices and kids & teen spaces.
New season children's furniture design, bold design, vibrant colors. It is designed to allow twins to share a room with the use of bedding.
15. Cattelan
Cattelan Italia was founded by GIORGIOCATTELAN in Carre between Milan and Venice 30 years ago. The brand is good at design, has rich products, excellent materials and craftsmanship, and coexists with modern and neoclassical styles. It is the representative of Italy's "comprehensive home" (dining room, living room, bedroom complete set, sofa, table and chairs, cabinets, coffee table, lamps, accessories, everything you need).
Whether it is the interweaving of abstract lines, the extension of concrete forms, the multi-angle zigzag shapes, or the clever splicing of different materials, Cattelan interprets the design aesthetics full of geometric concepts, presenting dining tables, chairs, lamps, cabinets, wall shelves and other home items that perfectly combine creativity and functionality.
16. Brotto Art
When wood is endowed with soul and becomes a unique language to express people’s lifestyle, it becomes comfortable, natural and without boundaries. Arte Brotto’s furniture conveys the charm of nature just right in a limited environment. It is free and beautiful, and its artistic beauty is unparalleled.
As time goes by, the elegance and nobility of Italian neoclassical furniture gradually replaced the excessive grace of French furniture and became the new favorite of many aristocrats and celebrities. As one of the representatives of neoclassical furniture with precious heritage craftsmanship, Arte Brotto not only pursues the artistic taste of the product, but also fully demonstrates the natural and elegant connotation of furniture.
At the same time, Arte Brotto pays great attention to nature, and many of its furniture can reflect the natural texture beauty of wood and the colors closest to nature.
17. More
The Italian brand Magis features lively shapes, avant-garde fashion, and fun in life. Magis has always been committed to surpassing and leading the mainstream market. It has a large number of leading creative ideas from top international designers and puts its designed products at the forefront.
Originally famous for its plastic furniture, it gradually turned to exploring more high-tech synthetic aluminum, stainless steel sheets and die-cast metals combined with high technology to engage in the mass production of furniture and daily necessities.
Magis was named the first of "10 people who can change our lifestyle" by Wallpaper, an internationally renowned design trend magazine. Magis' products have indeed set off a craze among the world's design celebrities and home lovers.
18. Twils
Twils' product range focuses on fabric beds, decorative accessories and bedding.
Although the company was founded only more than 20 years ago, after years of hard work and practice, it has evolved into an expert enterprise in this field, and has a striking presence in the Italian furniture market in the brand neighborhood, and has appeared many times in the Milan Furniture Fair.
The main feature of Twils is that it is a 100% Italian product, with first-class materials and parts as the guarantee of its products. The company's products are equipped with a wide range of bedding styles, with single or combined color styles available. All products combine fashionable shapes with excellent quality, bringing a breath of fresh air to people's bedroom environment.
19. Yours
Edra has a relatively short history among Italian furniture brands, with only 23 years of history. However, its influence and popularity in the industry are not inferior to other furniture brands that became famous in the 1950s and 1960s.
Every year at the Milan Furniture Fair, Edra's new products always leave a deep impression on people. The dazzling colors and surprising creative shapes make people feel like they are in an art museum.
The name Edra comes from the ancient Greek word "exedra", which means "a place with profound philosophical meaning". The design style of Edra furniture company is known for its "novelty". There are many young designers under its umbrella. Their bold ideas and ingenious designs make Edra's furniture products unique.
20. Poltrona Frau
Founded in 1912, Poltrona Frau has a history of 100 years. In 1926, it officially became the supplier of furniture for the Italian royal family. Over the past century, it has become the exclusive furniture for the royal families of Europe, both ancient and modern.
The reason why Poltrona Frau is collectible is due to its unique and exquisite craftsmanship and top-quality natural materials that have been passed down for a century, as well as its classic styles that transcend the fashion of different eras.
Poltrona Frau's leather material and leather chair sewing technology are the brand's biggest highlights. Poltrona Frau dares to disclose the cross-sectional views of its products. The reason for this bold disclosure is that Poltrona Frau is not afraid of people learning, because real craftsmanship is inherited, not learned.
You can always find Poltrona Frau furniture in the homes of Italian nobles. They are not new and eye-catching, but elegant and low-key "antiques". They have been passed down from generation to generation and have engraved the family's history and beautiful memories. The Ferrari family is one of the representatives. They love and collect Poltrona Frau. Ferrari and Maserati cars are proud to have Poltrona Frau built-in fine seats.
21. Gervasoni
Gervasoni was founded in 1882 and has a history of more than 100 years. It is a well-known furniture brand originating from Udine (UD) Italy, the furniture kingdom.
Gervasoni has a brand style that is simple and practical, not ostentatious or showy. Designers use clean lines to avoid complicated lines on furniture. In terms of color, the light colors are simple and elegant, just like a cup of green tea, which makes the home look fresh and full of personality.
22. Potocco
Italian furniture manufacturer Potocco is located in the historic northeastern Italian city of Udine and is an outstanding representative of the northern Italian furniture industry.
Founded in 1919, it was originally a small workshop Potocco SpA set up by Domenico Potocco and his sons. Now this small workshop has become one of the most powerful chair manufacturers in Italy and even in the world.
22. If so
When Sicis was founded, it could not have anticipated the brilliant achievements it has today. Their art factory is a garden of ancient art, guarding the handicraft skills passed down from ancient times. Here, mosaics are not just architectural decorations, but tools that can express emotions. Sicis respects this traditional inspiration and reinterprets the mosaic art from a contemporary innovative perspective.
As Italy's top mosaic brand, Sicis creates art with art. Its trimmed mosaics are known in Europe for their absolute luxury, and its decorative works have become a symbol of the times. Sicis uses technology and experimentation to create not only a strong visual impact and a new three-dimensional space, but also gives mosaics new meanings and functions, providing more possibilities for home decoration.
24. Ceccotti
CECCOTTI Furniture Company was founded by Aviero Ceccotti in the late 1950s. In the minds of Italian nobles, CECCOTTI is the embodiment of perfection. Its superb craftsmanship, limited production, extreme detail charm and selection of high-quality wood have become the valuable experience of CECCOTTI's popularity in Europe for a hundred years.
It takes a long process and great patience to make a piece of pure handmade solid wood furniture. In Ceccotti, apart from the time it takes to cultivate trees, it takes twenty years from the time the logs are laid aside to the time they can be processed and used. In order to create a perfect curve, Ceccotti would rather use less than 1/3 of the log material from the entire tree. This almost crazy practice is Ceccotti's unique environmental protection concept.
The unique and beautiful curves of Ceccotti furniture are not machine-polished, nor are they simply bent by burning. Instead, they are made from a whole piece of wood, cut and polished by hand. The utilization rate of wood is very low, which is not environmentally friendly, but Ceccotti believes that the true meaning of environmental protection lies in not wasting. Carefully making a piece of wood into a piece of furniture and making it last for decades or even hundreds of years is not considered a waste. A chair with artistic value can be used for a lifetime, or even passed down for generations. Compared with a chair that needs to be replaced every few years, Ceccotti seems to be more in line with the spirit of environmental protection.