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LaCividina celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016. The company reached this important milestone thanks to its ability to innovate and move with the times. After starting out as a craft business making upholstered seating for other companies, it now creates collections under its own brand, with in-depth style and shape development to give them distinctive personalities.
During a natural evolution process, LaCividina has established the perfect balance between craft know-how and stylistic and technological research. This has helped to make it a highly reliable partner in the contract market and beyond. It is internationally renowned thanks to its solid corporate identity, which is built on a marvellously poised blend of the qualities for which the Italian manufacturing scene is famous: design, attention to detail, creativity, customization and first-rate materials.
It has been an eventful 40 years. LaCividina was founded in Friuli in 1976, the year when a devastating earthquake struck the area. Despite the ruins strewn across the landscape, Carlo Bulfoni managed to find the drive to launch a manufacturer of upholstered seating for the contract and residential markets, at a time when Italian design was booming on the production scene. In the following years, his son Fulvio took over the reins and made the company famous all over the world alongside Paola Mesaglio, his partner in both life and business.
Today LaCividina is taking on new challenges and new markets. It knows that it can count on the impetus that comes from the know-how of its craft workers, an organizational structure capable of operating on global markets, a closeknit group that establishes a common thread with the art direction, and above all the intrinsic value of the LaCividina brand, which is now internationally renowned.
Every day, the company writes another chapter in a tale of excellence in its headquarters in Martignacco, in the province of Udine. Every bright new creative idea that emerges here becomes a new design thanks to a blend of innovation and experience that combines the very highest global production standards with the meticulousness of the finest Italian craftsmanship.
MYPLACE, Lounge chair Designed by Michael Geldmacher - With the aim of creating the perfect armchair for the many different needs of the contract market, from office use to relaxation, Michael Geldmacher has conceived and espoused an innovative outlook on design. The result is Myplace, a new collection of lounge chairs presented at Milan 2016 by LaCividina. The two shells used for the seats and the headrests are both produced in single moulds of different shapes and sizes. The parts were inspired by the sweeping lines of a conch and they can be combined to form a collection of armchairs that can easily respond to any seating needs. This cutting-edge yet simple concept is behind 18 different armchair models.
Their distinguishing features are their flowing forms, which cradle the body and work in conjunction with the foam rubber padding in varying densities to guarantee maximum seating comfort.
The Myplace base was designed to emphasize the overall lightness of the piece. Refined oak in black or natural hues is available in a stand design with four legs. Alternatively, black, plum and ivory coated metal can be used to make either a sled base or a stand with four legs.
TAILOR, collection Designed by Simon Pengelly for LaCividina - A timeless seating collection with generous, welcoming shapes. Tailor can cater to all residential and contract seating needs thanks to the modularity of the pieces – which come in a range of shapes and sizes – and the lines of the products, which manage to be understated and bold at the same time. The sled base can either be made of metal or oak in black or natural hues. It is a refined detail that adds an overall sense of elegance, with a perfect balance between transience and substance.
PINCH, sofa and armchair Skrivo Design
Skrivo - Design’s aim when designing the Pinch collection of armchairs and sofas for
LaCividina was to create areas where people could experience a little privacy and tranquillity in public spaces. The name comes from the original shape of the tubular metal frame, which literally pinches the backrest and the side pieces. This makes them into padded walls that form a sort of comfort room. The form of Pinch was developed due to the desire to combine two very different materials: polyurethane foam, which has the capacity to change shape, and steel, the quintessential rigid material. The pairing of these two elements has produced a collection of sofas with innovative shapes. Rather than stopping at the conventional height, the structure of the legs continues and takes on an innovative supporting function, holding steady the padded walls and giving the seating an original, high impact overall look.
Pinch products can be made even more practical with the addition of tables to the structures to make the seats into comfortable places for working, studying or eating.
ALA, Small Chair Designed by Sebastian Herkner
The fertile partnership between LaCividina and Sebastian Herkner that began in 2015 has continued this year with contemplation of new uses for the Ala seating collection, in an example of the exhaustive stylistic and technical research that the company puts into all of its creations. The process has produced the Ala Small Chair, which has been reduced in width and has overhauled proportions. It is a seating solution that can add character even to small spaces and it has all of the distinguishing features that have made the Ala collection a big hit on the market: clean-cut lines, sweeping curves and an original, visible structure – made of coloured or natural solid ash or metal – that holds and supports the backrest, seat and armrests.
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