A Timeless Comfort
Flexform’s is a family history that embodies tradition, style, quality, consistency and design. Masterful design ever intertwined with peak craftsmanship and ever devoted to unique sophisticated environments. On land and at sea
Above, the Arnold table line by Antonio Citterio offers a variety of shapes, sizes and finishes to be paired with any of the seating options in the Flexform collection. Top and to the side, Camelot. Seat cushion and backrest upholstery are finished with elegant piping, available in contrasting colours or tone-on-tone
by Désirée Sormani- ph. courtesy by Flexform
“Our roots show us our future. Without knowing our history, we cannot imagine what is to come. It is essential that we keep our ‘we attitude’ alive, the awareness that this is a team effort – a brand effort”. This is how Matteo Galimberti, Italy Sales Director and Member of the Board of Flexform, describes his company. This particular Italian company’s history is very much a family history. One that dates back to 1959, in the furniture manufacturing district of Brianza in Northern Italy, when the Galimberti brothers set up a workshop at a time when Made in Italy design was taking its first steps and in a place where small workshops still worked wood, metal and upholstered sofas with unmatched skill, intertwining their experience with that of the great masters of Italian design. Their sofas and armchairs were soon decorating the most prestigious buildings in Milan, villas overlooking Lake Como, even the foyer of Milan’s Teatro della Scala. The workshop quickly evolved into an industry, becoming Flexform S.p.A. in 1967. Renowned names from the design world signed their collections (Joe Colombo, Asnago-Vender, Cini Boeri, Rodolfo Bonetto, to name a few) and a fruitful collaboration began with the young architect Antonio Citterio, kicking off a period of growth that after more than 40 years continues to this day. Now, Flexform offers a wide collection of home furnishings with a focus on sofas (extending to the bedroom) guided by the
same generational values, inspired not by passing trends but by their own roots: Made in Italy Design, Timeless Elegance, Comfort, Quality, Coherent Design, Contemporary Character, Beauty, Durability. Sofas and furniture put together with the manual expertise of such a level that the outcome is guaranteed to represent the peak of manufacturing quality. Leathers, fabrics, woods, metals and upholstery materials are selected using always the strictest of criteria. All to produce nothing but the absolute pinnacle of comfort, discretion and reassuring elegance, a timeless style perfect for any environment, even on board a yacht. Flexform has been active in the nautical world for some time now, collaborating with leading names like Sanlorenzo Yacht, Baglietto, Cranchi Yacht, Ferretti Yacht, Mangusta Yachts, and more. The Camelot seating solution by Antonio Citterio, to offer an example, combines an advanced modularity system with the highest standards of comfort, to create exceptionally personal configurations, both in terms of its modularity and choice of materials. Visually, the design offers an intriguing contrast between the formal austerity of the structure itself - composed of metal supports and a cylindrical bar in wood or clad in cowhide - and the embracing softness of the upholstery. A tremendously varied range, the line includes elements of many different widths and depths, as to provide the most and best suited decor options possible, for the most diverse of spaces. www.flexform.it
Above, a space furnished with a selection from various Flexform collections. A modular seating system, Camelot offers a sleek structure composed of metal, wood and cowhide, including generous cushions with custom couture finishes.
The Ginger chaise longue (also below), first penned by Antonio Citterio in 1984, is back in the collection, featuring its classic sinuous metal tubular structure that supports a soft seat, backrest cushions and a pivoting side table
