Brands

Founded in Canada by Randy Bishop and Omer Arbel in 2005, the lighting design brand Bocci was born with a single lighting project, “14”, which has become an instant classic and remains a staple of design and bestseller. The portfolio is enriched over time: a series of real light sculptures developed starting from research on the physico-chemical qualities of materials and the pure estonia of lighting. The collections are named with simple numbers that highlight their chronological placement in the creative process of the artistic director, the architect and designer of Israeli origins Arbel, and use glass as the main material, skilfully worked by craftsmen trained in Murano.

Artek was founded in Helsinki in 1935 by four young idealists: Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl. Their goal was “to sell furniture and to promote a modern culture of living by exhibitions and other educational means.”
The name Artek is a synthesis of “art” and ‘technology’ – concepts central to the international modernist movement that came to prominence in the 1920s. It was Walter Gropius, a key proponent of modernism, who coined the motto ‘art and technology – a new unity.’ Technology was understood to include science and industrial production methods, while the conception of art extended beyond the fine arts to encompass architecture and design.
Modernism aimed to achieve a fruitful union of these two spheres. This same aspiration guided the founders of Artek in their naming of the company and in the design of iconic pieces of world design such as the Stool 60, Armchair 42 and Paimio and the Tea Trolley 900.
In line with the spirit of its founders, Artek today remains an innovative company in the world of modern design, developing new products at the intersection of design, architecture and art.
The Artek collection consists of furniture, lighting, and accessories designed by Finnish masters – including Tapio Wirkkala, Jørn Utzon, Eero Aarnio and the founders – and by important contemporary international designers including Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius. Artek stands for clarity, functionality, and poetic simplicity.

Since 1973 Agape has marked the evolution of the bathroom. Its iconic products, such as Spoon and Ottocento by Benedini Associati, have marked fundamental stages of contemporary furniture and today for the company great names in design sign pieces that are already new classics, such as Vieques by Patricia Urquiola and the Bjhon washbasins, conceived in 1970 by Angelo Mangiarotti today made of marble, stone and Cristalplant® biobased, an innovative and sustainable material.
With Agape the bathroom – a vital and regenerating environment dedicated to well-being – stops being just a functional space to become the emotional center of the home.
This important story has been rewarded over the years by important awards, such as the Design Plus and many selections at the Compasso d’Oro ADI, to which the honorable mention of the Nivis washbasin and the selection for the Plus furniture system are added in 2014.

Creating innovative products and concepts with great designers has been the essence of Vitra since 1950. The relationship of trust between authors from all corners of the world and Vitra, which shares their ambitions, is at the heart of the company’s product development process. Collaborations are always a subtle synthesis of artistic freedom, production know-how and knowledge of the sector. This philosophy has shaped the company’s culture since its first collaborations with legendary designers such as Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Jean Prouvè and Verner Panton, up to the recent projects by Bouroullecs, Jasper Morrison, Ron Arad and Tadao Ando. With its classics Vitra unquestionably represents the revolutionary design of the 20th century. Today, by combining technical and conceptual expertise with the creativity of contemporary designers, Vitra seeks to continue pushing the boundaries of the design discipline.

Since 1949, Bulthaup has been developing projects and high-end “kitchens for people”. Planning and design contribute to the creation of durable products in functional and aesthetic terms: with the global concept of “b.architecture” and the reinterpretation of the kitchen island with the b3, b2 and b1 systems, Bulthaup focuses on essentiality adn quality, on the real moments of our life and today´s habits. Cooking becomes an act of communication and cooking returns to being true architecture. Even in the absolute perfection of details.
Places where you can be creative, where you can see things as they are created by our own hands. To give life to these places, the man with his needs and habits, must always be at the center of all our reflections.
The perfection of manual work occurs when the most refined machines and technologies can no longer do anything. This is where Bulthaup takes over the manual skill that gives the materials that touch that speaks to all our senses.