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ABOUT

We are based in Northern Italy, in the region between the city of Milan and Lake Como, one of the most thriving Italian centers for expert craftsmanship and design innovation. Our ideal location allows us to source and offer our worldwide clients a great selection of Italian furniture, with a main focus on design from early to late 20th Century as well as, here and there, some more antique gems. 

Whilst history would suggest that the luxury furniture and decorative arts worlds have been completely owned by France from the Louis’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the Art Nouveau and Art Deco of the 1910s-30s, the late 20th century decades brought an exciting newcomer to the design realm: Italy. As modernist aesthetics and ideas developed in Italy from the 1920s through the 1950s, much attention and almost the entire credit for making Italy a center of design and furniture making were given to Italy’s architects and designers, such as Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Carlo Scarpa, Osvaldo Borsani, and Ico Parisi, as well as to the larger manufacturers founded in those years, Cassina, FontanArte, B&B, Molteni, Zanotta and schools such as Politecnico di Milano, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. 

Thereafter also the contribution of contemporary Italian furniture designers has left an indelible mark and has established the country as a major exporter of modern-day classics. Consider the Castiglioni brothers, Vico Magistretti, Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso, Fornasetti, Harry Bertoia, Joe Colombo, Carlo Scarpa and Gabriella Crespi – all names which have become ingrained in the design world’s vocabulary for their nonchalant Modernist style. These lodestars of Italian design were proof of the country’s creative vision in the second half of the 20th century and, these days, the same fervour for innovative design remains. Italian design has always emphasized fine quality and remarkable craftsmanship. From textile art, natural materials, and light features to the wide array of furniture, it will never go out of style. It would be difficult to imagine any interior setting absent of Italian influence, as it remains timeless in a sea of copious trends.
 

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