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Delcourt

A durable and singular approach
When he appears for the first time on the French design scene, it is as Creator of the year at Maison et Objet fair. We are in 1999. Christophe Delcourt is in his thirties and showcases his first creations (objects and lighting) with the particularity of being at the same time their designer, their manufacturer and their editor. The whole at a time when the bare notion « Maison d’édition » is, if not inexistent, still confidential.

This singular approach though is not moved by any kind of mundane quest for independence, but only by the will to give a precise and perfectly mastered frame to what will quickly become a true signature. As a result, a collection of lighting and contemporary furniture pieces, drawn as close as possible to the materials (wood, bronze, metal, ceramics, leather, etc.) and according to traditional craftsmanship..

The French designer’s projects combine raw materials and sober and elegant lines, abundantly inspired by the beauty of natural materials and their ability to be part of the shape of an object thanks to their capillary characteristics such as the richness of the material and the color. The designer has repeatedly admitted that nature is the first inspiring element and initial part of his design process. In fact, in the natural world there are several incredible shapes that can be applied to furniture design: shapes, colors and textures, which can be combined in infinite different ways.
Delcourt’s work is a true testimony of his love for materials and for his deep devotion to artisanal and manual manufacturing; his projects, lamps or furnishings, are never fashionable or the result of rapid trends, but are timeless, refined and unique eternal objects, with the pleasure of seeing them grow old and the certainty that they will accompany you throughout your life.
Its main masters to be constantly looked at as an example and as a major artistic influence are some French design legends such as Jean Prouvé, Pierre Chareau and Jean-Michel Frank.
Recently the designer has completed his work with a specific collection of fabrics, materials and neutral and natural colors, to be used for his furnishings, further perfecting the personal and refined vision of the concept of living and living in his own spaces.
Delcourt’s studio and atelier continues to be in the heart of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, inside a sober and elegant courtyard, next to what was once the historic home of the master of French couture Yves Saint Laurent.

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Artifort

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  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino
  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino
  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino
  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino
  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino
  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino
  • Artifort distribution Ferrero1947 Poirino Torino

In 2015 Artifort celebrated its 125th anniversary. Each year, our chairs, tables and sofas find their way to the homes of design lovers around the world. It all started in 1890 when Jules Wagemans started a business as an upholsterer in Maastricht.
Artifort stands for furniture that lasts a lifetime. In many cases it passes down through generations. The secret lies in the use of high quality materials and in our skilled employees. The craftsmanship of our upholsterers, welders, woodworkers and seamstresses is at a high level through years of experience and in-house training of our younger employees.
Artifort stands for timeless design. Design that endures. Design that is authoritative. From Pierre Paulin and Geoffrey Harcourt to René Holten and Patrick Norguet. Artifort means top-quality design by top designers.

Artifort includes in its permanent collection many projects by the French designer Pierre Paulin dating back to the 60s and 70s.
Paulin, awarded the highest French honor for the arts and defined by French President Sarkozy as “the man who made design an art”, started working as a freelance designer for Artifort at the beginning of his professional career; this marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration, where comfort has always been the constant starting point.
The works of the Paulin-Artifort association can be admired in the most famous museums around the world and continue to be produced as an example of timeless design: the Tongue, Le Chat, Ribbon, Tulip, Mushroom armchairs … are now considered to be cornerstones of design of the ‘900 and sculptures with great comfort.

 

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Bonacina

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  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino
  • Ferrero1947 distribution Bonacina 1889 torino Poirino

Giovanni Bonacina started his business in 1889 in Lurago D’Erba, located in a hilly, fertile part of the area north of Milan known as Brianza, combining two traditional crafts practiced in the area, basketry and furniture making, using the local materials reed and cane, while rattan from Southeast Asia.

His hard work and experience produced excellent results, and his efforts were rewarded with awards in international expositions and numerous important commissions. His son Vittorio carried on and built upon what his father had passed down, taking the company yet another step forward, with an eye on the revolution in design and art that was taking place in the 1950’s, and a new era in the company’s future design, made possible by the winning combination of production experience, the visionary collaboration with talented designers, and a shared willingness to push the materials and shapes into new expressive forms.

Vittorio Bonacina and Co. distinguished itself again and again. Meanwhile Mario Bonacina, Vittorio’s son, was maturing as a designer and as an inspired heir to the family company’s name. With an assurance based on two generations of success he was uniquely placed to take the company towards the future by re-proposing selected historic pieces in updated ways and by continuing to work with important designers in innovative ways.

In step with the times, he emphasized the ecological sustainability of the materials used while carrying on the highly creative and refined work for which the company is known. Vittorio’s and Mario’s wives brought their skills, style and grace to the mix and established their invaluable place in the thriving company.

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Azucena

Azucena

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  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947
  • Azucena Ferrero1947

Founded in 1947 by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella and Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua. The Italian brand Azucena has always stood out for its collections that combine formal elegance, luxury, pure and crisp aesthetics and a very high workmanship.
The brand that the architects decide to call Azucena from the gypsy name of the play ‘Il Trovatore’, is created both to collect some of their furniture projects to be used for the furnishing of the buildings they design themselves and to be able to individually produce some furniture that is part of a series of furnishings designed by them. The three designers then start a rich production designed by them to take advantage of a repertoire of furnishings available for the houses they design. They are furnishings, lamps and experimental objects, which boldly use new materials, combined with traditional ones in a surprising and contemporary way, combining and often overlapping industry and high craftsmanship. Lacquer, polished chromed brass, crystal are the preferred materials in a constant search for brightness, brilliance, and transparency, which sometimes alternate with the softness of the velvet or the richness of the leather.

With Azucena a unique, very refined collection comes to life, with a series of pieces that have become iconic in a short time, characterized by the union of different materials, but always sought after, and by the recovery of traditional stylistic forms; above all the Catilina armchair, almost a Roman throne, where you have to sit down in a composed way, a concept much loved by the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, but also the Cavalletto table, with sinuous and rigorous shapes, reminiscent of the drawing benches at the polytechnic of Milan, or the Chinotto armchair, a small off-scale not without irony.

The lamps have a privileged position within the Azucena collection: Luigi Caccia Dominioni pays particular attention to light and lighting fixtures, taking advantage of unusual materials and techniques in a new and modern way. The result is some models of extraordinary beauty such as the famous Imbuto floor lamp, with a clear reference reinterpreted in a sober and cultured way, or as the cast iron table lamp, where the name itself reveals the author’s technical choice, or even as the Monachella reading lamp, light, transportable thanks to a ring at the end of the rod, conceived by the architect Caccia Dominioni not casually, but inspired by the headdress of the nuns of a Milanese convent, which he was building.

In 2018, the Azucena brand was acquired by B&B Italia, which wanted to preserve and relaunch it, in an active vision of the Italian heritage, the historic brand returns to the market with a series of “modern classics” designed by the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni since the end of the 1940s. Chairs, sofas, tables and lamps that have written the history of Made in Italy design and which return today as a testimony to class and quality.

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m6 -Ferrero1947

M6

M6 is a project by Luca Montrucchio for Ferrero1947, which is born from the reflection on the behavior of the different materials and those who work in front of a fixed and predefined scheme.

The fulcrum of the project is a square, lightweight, tapered structure made of 6 mm diameter, black painted iron rod and completed by a horizontal cover with 2 vertical limbs to turn it into a seat or stand.

In a second phase, were selected six different materials : wool, glass, perforated sheet, leather, linen and wood rope, and the finished structure was assigned, with attachment the cover scheme, to 6 artisans, experts in their field, who interpreted the precise design of the designer, also technically solving the fundamental knots for the manufacture of the product.

The selection was rigorous:

for wool: the Dutch weavers of Thomas Eyck, who are experts in Irish wool work

for glass: Cristal King’s glassware in Turin

for the perforated sheet: the blacksmith of Roero Gatto

for the leather: the pellet and the Pinerolese saddle Calautti

for the flax rope: the ancient Massia hammer manufacture

for wood: Tesio, the historic Piedmont carpenter collaborator of Carlo Mollino

The result is a hybrid object, a table of chairs or seats, in all the different types, to be used individually or assembled with infinite combinations.

To complete the M6 ​​collection there is a bench, obtained from the repetition of the module, with seat in monochrome patch fabrics, and a wall structure, with the same proportions and lines, with inserts in perforated black sheet metal.

M6 is available from November in the FERRERO1947 gallery in Turin, in corso Matteotti 15 or online by mail.

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Mirror Shards - Ferrero1947 - Luca Montrucchio

Mirror Shard

Mirror Shard: Ferrero1947 presents a new project in the exhibition “When the mirror makes you beautiful” ,based on the type of the console and its interpretations completed by a mirror from the same rigor. Essential graphic lines and alternation of different materials, characterize the ‘Frank’ project, where the young designer Luca Montrucchio worked with typical refined influences of the Jean Michel Frank’s style in a contemporary reinterpretation.

Frank is also a tribute to Franco Curletto, who hosts the event and who made beauty his philosophy of life. A collection of small table mirrors, private vanity, complete the project, translating into a smaller scale the lines and the rigor of the primitive idea.

The project is made entirely by hand, with the intervention of local artisans: each element is the result of a careful manual labor. Ferrero1947, with an experience of almost 70 years in the selection, distribution and sale of contemporary furniture, from 2105 decided to enter the world of production, producing a collection that embodies the ideology and style acquired over many years of activity.

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Frank collection - Ferrero1947 - Luca Montrucchio

Frank

Collection 2016

Ferrero1947 presents a new project in the exhibition “When the mirror makes you beautiful”, based on the type of the console and its interpretations completed by a mirror from the same rigor. Essential graphic lines and alternation of different materials, characterize the ‘Frank’ project, where the young designer Luca Montrucchio worked with typical refined influences of the Jean Michel Frank’s style in a contemporary reinterpretation. Frank is also a tribute to Franco Curletto, who hosts the event and who made beauty his philosophy of life. A collection of small table mirrors, private vanity, complete the project, translating into a smaller scale the lines and the rigor of the primitive idea. The project is made entirely by hand, with the intervention of local artisans: each element is the result of a careful manual labor. Ferrero1947, with an experience of almost 70 years in the selection, distribution and sale of contemporary furniture, from 2105 decided to enter the world of production, producing a collection that embodies the ideology and style acquired over many years of activity.

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Belt

Belt

First collection

FERRERO1947 presents Belt, after nearly 70 years of experience in the selection, distribution and sale of contemporary furniture, decides to enter in the world of production, creating division “Collection” for editing a collection of furnishings and implement the ideology and style acquired in many years of activity, with the support of the historic Private Archive, which collects a rich heritage of Italian and international design from 1940 to the present.

The coffee table “BELT” born in anticipation of what will be 01 Collection: its simple shapes and rigorous, with the study of a detail that generates the entire project, born from the creativity of the young designer Luca Montrucchio and represents totally style Ferrero1947 .

The product will be available in a wide range of colors and finishings, however, the company for its launch has wanted to focus on the contrast between two materials: metal and wood. The varnished metal, wraps and holds a thick top of fine wood, deliberately not finished with a touch of nature, and valuable in its natural veins.

Particular attention was paid to details, such as the tapering of the legs, and the proportions between the parties, such as that between the thickness of the metal profile and the radius of curvature, in an alternation of full and empty spaces.

To make the project even more appealing is the infinite number of possible combinations thanks to two heights and three different lengths, with harmonious shapes which allow you to create games of over-lapping, a reflection of the Bauhaus, giving a unique movement to the environment in which they are placed.

The name “BELT” is inspired by the shape of the structure of the legs, which surrounds and supports the wood top as a soft metal belt.

The “Collection 01” Ferrero1947 will be previewed in Milan during the Salone del Mobile, in via Cerva 16 at the Flagship Store Agata Della Torre, fashion designer that processes and shares the same principles of rigor and sophistication of style Ferrero1947

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Studio Wieki Somers

Studio Wieki Somers

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  • Studio Wieki Somers
  • Studio Wieki Somers
  • Studio Wieki Somers
  • Studio Wieki Somers
  • Studio Wieki Somers
  • Studio Wieki Somers
  • Studio Wieki Somers

Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg studied at the Eindhoven Design Academy in the late 1990s and in 2003 they founded the Wieki Somers Studio, which is focused on reading the environment in which we live every day. The work of the studio is distinguished by a great attention to materials, technological research, and imagination.

The designers work for a wide variety of international manufacturers, museums and galleries, and have established an intense relationship with some private collectors. They have received numerous awards and their works are part of important collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ferrero 1947 is proud to present their limited edition collections of 99 specimens of vases, which link their shape to some reflections on the water. The result is a very poetic collection, of great craftsmanship and preciousness.

In this collection the most complex project from an artisanal point of view and the most intense from an aesthetic point of view is “Ice Flowers”: an ice-like cube that refers to Global Seed Vault on Spitsbergen. A set of glass sheets layered with petals in the middle that create a depth and a new scene with the real living flower. Another example of great charm is “Narcissus”, inspired by the painting “Narciso” by Caravaggio; a metaphor for the destructive relationship between man and nature. The vase shows a isolated flower in a puddle of oil. “Water Levers” is inspired by the current theme of continuously measuring our water levels due to climate change; the composition with flowers, volumes within volumes, use of different levels of water and a mirror base, together create an unexpected stratification. “Deepwater” the design of the deep waters refers to the oil that originates on the bottom of our oceans, whose natural balance with water it is interrupted by human actions; these actions can cause eco catastrophes such as “Deepwater Horizon”. Finally the “Erosion” model is inspired by the book “La lecture des Pierres” by Roger Caillois; erosion on earth is caused by natural elements such as wind, water and glacial ice. It is the process by which the surface of the Earth wears out.

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Studio Kolk & Kusters

Studio Kolk & Kusters

  • Studio Maarten Kolk e Guus Kusters _ Ferrero 1947
  • Studio Kolk & Kusters
  • Studio Kolk & Kusters
  • Studio Kolk & Kusters
  • Studio Kolk & Kusters
  • Studio Kolk & Kusters
  • Studio Kolk & Kusters

Maarten Kolk (1980) and Guus Kusters (1979) have been working together since 2009, the year of opening of Studio Kolk & Kusters. Both graduated with honors from the Eindhoven Design Academy, they develop independent projects and commissioned works as set-ups and curators of exhibitions and shows.
According to their philosophy poetry is found in nature and elements such as history, color and landscape are the foundation of their work, trying to translate this into objects, applications of materials, exhibitions and innovative production methods.
The Firm received the Sanoma Jong The Talent and Doen | Materiaalprijs’11 and in 2009 their work “Veldwerk” was nominated for the design prijs in Rotterdam. Since 2013 Maarten Kolk has been a member of the consultative committee for the design of creative industries “Fondo NL” and Guus Kusters is tutor at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
Their first works of great success, still in great demand today, are herbals of great poetry, which reflect the custom of many aristocratic and wealthy families in many Nordic countries, but also in France, Great Britain and Italy to create decorative panels composed of plants and flowers from their gardens;
in this case the artists use tradition, according to their style and way of working, updating it through contemporary techniques. The selected flowers and plants are in fact laid on different layers of fabric with a soft, poetic and romantic effect of strong impact.
Another very interesting work of theirs concerns a collection of dishes called “Crockery to wither”. This hand-painted eight-piece floral dining set is produced by the famous Royal Tichelaar Makkum, a Dutch manufacturing company founded in 1572 and specialized in designer ceramics and porcelain, also a supplier of the Real Casa. Traditionally, the paints on fine porcelain are applied by hand, making the job high intensity and therefore expensive. In this project Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters have developed glazing techniques that do not require artisans to paint the dishes directly, but rather to insert this process during the mold before the product is melted, making it possible to make several copies of a painting. After each launch the glaze is washed further and crumbles, drawing a clear parallel with flowers withered in nature; the image of the flower is clear and sharp after the first launch, wilting and fading after multiple reproductions.
With this collection the Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters balances nature and productive culture, emphasizing the beauty of both worlds. The service consists of two plates of different sizes, bowls, a cup, a carafe, a large plate to be used as a plate or tray and a vase in 6 or 9 different decorations.

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