However, true to Giorgio Cattelan's vision, the design team always preserved an eye toward lasting value and price.
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With a reputation for upscale offerings and elegance, the addition of this Florentine design house, now under the guidance of Lorenzo Cattelan, expanded the company into a full spectrum of upholstered offerings for every setting.Ĭreativity flourished and market share expanded as Cattelan Italia built on its tradition of designing highly functional, contemporary funiture with an air of the spontaneous. The acquisition of the prestigious firm ARKETIPO in 2011 inked the deal. Paolo, an award winning designer in his own right, immediately began expanding the horizons of Cattelan Italia with innovative furniture offerings, new materials, and cutting edge style.
Lorenzo and Paolo Cattelan joined their father in positions of leadership within the family's growing team. In 1995 the family tradition of ingenuity added a generation. He is quoted as saying, "The 'beautiful' for me is above all functionality." In the eyes of Giorgio, "The house is the icon of loved belongings." Inspired by the dramatic spires of his childhood home, not surprisingly he is devoted to the balance that enables masterpieces to endure. Cattelan Italia SPA had enthusiasm and positivity at the core of the company and this developed into a philosophy. An instant hit in the boutique market for export, the scope of their endeavors soon broadened to include collaborations with some of Italy's most inventive designers—Gastone Rinaldi, Yoshino and Emilio Nann, to name a few. Their focus at first were small marble complements and occasional stands, lovingly finished. In Thane he learned that "classic" meant beauty that endured for hundreds of years.įast-forward to 1979 with five of his six brothers already in the furniture business, Giorgio and Silvia founded Cattelan Italia SPA. The furnishings of these remarkable places, the baroque finishings, the marble, the plush settees, all created in Giorgio Cattelan a sense of angular style that transcends a traditional boutique fashion sense. Giorgio Cattelan grew up wandering the corridors of these architectural masterpieces, trailing his master carpenter father whose trade flourished, restoring and crafting ornate replica furniture with the help of his seven sons. It's terra cotta streets are bejeweled with gothic castles and fresco-laden churches. Thane, in the Province of Vincenza, is a tiny bastion of rustic beauty in Northern Italy.