Avant-garde, authenticity, excellence, and a combination of technological skills and local manual know-how. Cassina's identity is built on solid and shared values, to express the best of Italian and international design, with a coherent, recognizable and cultivated language. Thanks to a particular combination of gestures and words, Cassina has been able to bring together culture, craftsmanship and industry, combining memory and research, rigor and emotion, uniqueness and experimentation, and interpreting the endances of everyday life through a constant work on aesthetics and typologies. For more than 90 years, Meda's company, with its pioneering and free spirit, has been ahead of its time, tracing an unprecedented path - with intuition and anticipation - in the world of design and interior architecture. In fact, in the 1950s, Cassina authorized the transition from handmade to industrial production. It was the first company to involve the most enlightened designers and architects in the storytelling, through new forms, suggestions and influences of contemporary design. It is the only company to innovate at every stage of design: developing new building solutions, imagining possible living perspectives inspired by society, art and fashion, keeping its gaze resolutely turned towards the future, challenging conventional solutions, drawing the horizons of the new.
This is why Cassina's design is exhibited in the permanent collections of the most important museums in the world. Its products are durable and timeless, a synthesis of beauty and meaning, meticulously crafted with the highest quality materials and personalized details. The perfection of the high quality carpentry, leather work, upholstery and padding is still represented today by masterpieces such as 699 Superleggera by Gio Ponti, the lightest solid wood chair in the world, Cab by Mario Bellini, a seat with a steel structure and sewn stretch leather upholstery, secured with zippers, and Vico Magistretti's Maralunga sofa, a revolutionary object for the backrest reclining system and the use of the upholstery potential. A success for over 45 years.
The re-edition process
The re-edition of the furniture of the "Cassina I Maestri" collection began in the early 1960s, with a detailed analysis of the design of the original projects. All available documentation - drawings, sketches, notes - to which Cassina had exclusive access, was sifted through. It was then discussed with the Fondation Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand.
This approach has allowed Cassina to offer editions that are unquestionably faithful to the intentions of their creators, while using state-of-the-art technologies and materials. To this end Cassina, since 1972, with the advice of Filippo Alison, has implemented a rigorous methodology, intended to highlight for each object all the subtlety of the creative work brought by its author. The collection is entirely controlled by the Fondation Le Corbusier, and the heirs of Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret.
