Narrating the past, building the future
In 1963, a young entrepreneur, Mario Pedrali, opened a workshop in Palazzolo sull’Oglio (Brescia) to produce chairs, tables and furnishing accessories. Sixty years later, that workshop has grown into a structure with 340 employees...
Turri enters the Italian Design Brands group
The group Italian Design Brands expands, adding a new name to its already extensive portfolio of furniture and lighting firms. The new entry is Turri, a historic specialist in premium furnishings, becoming the 11th...
Managerial evolution for Flos
Chief Marketing Officer of Flos at a global level from 2017, and since 2019 part of the Steering Committee, formed by the CEO Roberta Silva, the Design Curators and the CMO to identify brand...
In Dubai, a project that speaks Italian
UAE-based MIRA Developments, together with Trussardi and Luxury Living Group (that designs, manufactures and distributes the brand’s furniture line Trussardi Casa), have announced a tripartite partnership to debut the Italian heritage fashion house’s first...
A local hub for an international reputation
The Turin-based general contractor EF Group continues its steady growth in the contract and project market and, with the acquisition of Giordano Allestimenti, brings home an enrichment of its portfolio in the all-round luxury...
Light acquisitions
Nemo Lighting’s acquisition of a majority stake in Reggiani Illuminazione adds a piece to Federico Palazzari’s vision of creating an Italian-led industrial lighting hub. The entrepreneur, who began fuelling this project in 2020 with...
Shedding light on light
According to the research conducted by meAAns, the observatory on market relations in the design-furniture sector, applying an ad hoc indicator developed to summarize – with the inclusion of a series of digital performance...
Pratic enters StellaGroup
A merger has been announced between Pratic Spa, a company based in Fagagna, Friuli specialized in the design, production and marketing of awnings and pergolas, and StellaGroup, one of the leading European manufacturers of...
iGuzzini: lighting and social wellbeing
Light as a factor of social innovation. This is the vision of iGuzzini, a company founded in 1959, part of the Fagerhult Group since 2019. Over three decades, iGuzzini has focused on light for...
Design brands and digital performance: upholstered furniture
In recent months meAAns, with its observatory on design-furniture market relations, has created and tested an indicator that summarizes the degree of activity, and hence of interest, of sector brands in a given time...