A THREE GENERATIONS STORY The Porro Family has actualized, in the space of three generations, her passion for the furnishing accessories, combining Master Engravers’ drawings with the engineering precision of the final object. In the last few years the need to interpret also the accessories as furnishing objects, able to valorise the architectural and interior design project, has been growing. To this aim, the Porro Family has destined the prestige of the Enrico Cassina brand, which proposes his philosophy of stylistic pureness with the wider offer of metal objects and “custom-made” solutions with the guarantee of a 100% Made in Italy production. Giuseppe Fabio, Paola and Donata
PORRO FAMILY
RETAIL
PROJECTS AND CUSTOM MADE
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O1 COLLECTIONS
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CLASSIC
MODERN
CONTEMPORARY
Italian Baroque
Art Nouveau / Floral Style
Rococò Pop
Louis XV
XX Century
The Sign Project
Louis XVI
Art Déco
Pop Gum
First Empire
Thirties
Second Empire
Fifties
Colonial
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1890
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1960
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COLLECTIONS TO FURNISH The opportunity to select for any architectural environment the whole range of furnishing accessories with one or more complete product Collections, coordinated in style and finish: core, door and window accessories, furnishing, decorations and accessories.
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PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION A selection based on 3 Collections, 14 Architectural Styles subdivided into 34 Product groups coordinated in style and finish, 49 Finishes already available.
Collections
Styles
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CLASSIC MODERN CONTEMPORARY
Italian Baroque Louis XV Louis XVI First Empire Second Empire Colonial Art Nouveau / Floral Style XX Century Art Déco Thirties Fifties Rococò Pop The Sign Project Pop Gum
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Product Groups
Finishes
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Door Handles Privacy Flush Handles Door Knobs Keys Pull Handles Door Knockers Entrance Set Cremone Bolts Sliding Bolts Window Handles DK Doorstops Push Plates Escutcheons Door Hinges Hinge Covers Cabinet Hinges Chains ...
Polished Brass Not Lacquered Polished Brass Satin Brass Matt Satin Brass Antique Bronze Matt Dark Bronze Ancient Brass Oil Rubbed Bronze Nickel Plated Satin Nickel Matt Satin Nickel Chrome Plated Satin Chrome Patined Steel Black Nickel Imperial Gold Old Gold ...
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FAST SERVICE FOR PRODUCT CHOICE The Customer can choose the furnishing accessories in a simple way and a short time only in five steps.
Collection Selection
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Style Seclection
Line Selection
CLASSIC
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LOUIS XV
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C067
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FAST SERVICE FOR PRODUCT CHOICE The Customer can choose the furnishing accessories in a simple way and a short time only in five steps.
Finish Selection
Related Products Selection
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GOLD PVD
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C H
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A A E
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O2 ARCHITECTURAL SPACES
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ARCHITECTURAL SPACES
The new handles and metal accessories of the Enrico Cassinaproposal for interior and exterior design have been studied for the fulfillment of furnishing projects for Architects, Interior Designers and Contracts.
Hotel
Nautical
Villas & Palaces
Retail
Residential Buildings
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CLASSIC
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LOUIS XVI
Door Handle on Plate
Related Products
Door Handle on Rose Privacy Version
Pull Handle
Flush Handle
Door Knob
Door Hinge
DK
Clothes Hanger
Cabinet Handle
Decorations for Cabinet
MODERN
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F A A D
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ART DÉCO
Door Handle on Plate
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Related Products
Door Handle on Rose Privacy Version
Door Knob
Door Key
DK
Window Handle
Cabinet Handle
Cabinet Knob
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CONTEMPORARY
ROCOCĂ’ POP
Door Handle on Plate
Related Products
Door Handle on Rose Privacy Version
Pull Handle
Flush Handle
DK
Window Handle
Clothes Hanger
Name and Number Plate
Cabinet Handle
Cabinet Escutcheon
SUPPORT FOR DESIGN The special relationship between Interior Designers and Enrico Cassina is the main theme in the product and company development. The purity of style and the range of our Collections allow us to design and furnish with the greatest freedom. We reserved an area for Interior Designers in our seat in Cucciago, where they can test the quality of our products and experiment new solutions.
CUSTOM MADE SERVICES
TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
WORKSHOP
COLLECTIONS
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O3 STYLES
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ITALIAN BAROQUE Renaissance trend in which grows the interest for the detail and for the curvilinear manufacturing of metals. The production of this period enhances ornamental motifs which are more and more lively. New elements appear such as: volutes, curls, putti, wreaths and cupids.
1630 C120
C043
1631
1630
Baldassare Longhena Santa Maria della Salute Venezia / Venice
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano Roma / Rome
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LOUIS XV The Louis XV Style can be defined as the most substantial expression of the Rococò. On vegetal, zoomorphic or anthropomorphic frameworks are inserted capricious motifs, such as: palmettes, pearls, shells, rosettes, ovals, spirals, little flowers and leaves carved in wood, or melt in gold bronze or even modelled in porcelain or in polychrome ceramics.
1720 C067
C128
1756
1750
Francois Boucher Madame de Pompadour
Applique Wall light Fontainebleau
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LOUIS XVI In reaction to the previous style, now the functionality prevails on the aesthetics, the regularity on the asymmetries, the corrected linearity on wrapped sinuosities. The non-geometrical elements, allowed in the composition, contain the vegetal, animal and mythological motif, such as griffons, lions, sphinxs, but always in a stylized form.
1770 C016
1783 Jean-Henry Riesener Appartamenti reali, Palazzo Versailles Royal apartments, Versailles Palace Francia / France 20
FIRST EMPIRE A new style which is more and more oriented to underline the magnificence of the Napoleonic triumph. The decorative motifs, such as sphinxs, temples, swans, winged victories and laurel wreaths reduced in the dimensions and in the thickness, acquire sober and linear decorative values, completely losing the noble symbolic recall.
1804 C125
C090
C050
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722
1818-1831
1792- 1795
Ferdinando Bonsignore Chiesa della Grande Madre di Dio Torino / Turin
Poltrona / Armchair Convenzione Nazionale National Convention
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SECOND EMPIRE Beyond the luxury and the pomposity of a Louis XVI Style comeback, the Second Empire Style introduces, in the France of second half of the 19th Century, the innovative experiences in economic and industrial field of the Victorian England. The large scale and low cost production of the industrial processes open the market to lower classes.
1850 C087
C007
C122
1861- 1875
1855
Charles Garnier OpĂŠra Garnier Parigi / Paris
Franz Xaver Winterhalter Portait de NapolĂŠon III
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COLONIAL The British Empire at its climax collects and mixes the styles coming from Europe and the East by maintaining anyway a completely British simplicity and balance. Rococò influence, particulars inspired to nature and gothic rigorous lines can be found.
1630– 1890 C121
C140
4800
1718 - 1789
1830
Thomas Chippendale Credenza Cupboard
Interni Stile Georgiano Georgian Style Interiors
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ART NOUVEAU / FLORAL STYLE Generated by a sense of rebellion and redemption towards the industrialization, Art Nouveau looks for the comeback of high-quality craftsmanship. The tendency of lines reduction, ductility, plasticity, the preference towards a curvilinear trend and the concave-convex alternation, become essential. In Italy the style is popular with the local name “Floral�.
1860 C094
C096
1890-1900
1890
Louis Majorelle Pensile a muro Wall cabinet Francia / France
Interni Interiors Bruxelles / Brussels
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XX CENTURY A modern classicism that tends to simplify the shapes using clearer and more determined geometries. The taste remains aristocratic and sometimes recalls little decorative elements of the past. The composition is equilibrated and elegant, the patterns are barely sketched and schematic.
1900 C130
C126
C101
C173
C151
C138
C162
C099
1910
1905
Wiener Werkst채tte Disegno di tessuti Textile design
Josef Hoffmann N. 670 Sitzmachine Jacob & Josef Kohn
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ART DÉCO The geometry animates and gives a shape to the stylistic elements of this trend, that in opposition to the Art Nouveau motifs, rectifies and breaks the continuous fluent line and emphasizes the colour tones which are no more subtle and pastel colours, but full and bright tonalities. Among the symbolic motifs we can find the“step-shaped model”, a sort of progressive and specular stepped. structure.
1920 C178
C095
1927
1929
Jean-Elisée Puiforcat Teiera e caffettiera Teapot and coffee pot
Tamara de Lempicka The Musician
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THIRTIES The use of different materials, conformation variety, aesthetical attention, coming from the steady union between “the knowledge” and “ the know-how”, create a cultured and refined design, economically accessible and qualitative excellent. It reinterprets the values of the Mediterranean classicism: good design, proportion and harmony, giving the design irony, beauty, invention.
1920 C029
C054
C024
C044
C082
C092
1932
1933
1938
Pietro Chiesa Vaso Cartoccio FontanaArte
Pietro Chiesa Luminator FontanaArte
Jean Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Bugatti
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FIFTIES The large scale retail trade is given to birth and a new well-being concept is discovered. Some arts reach an undisputed stylistic excellence. The Italian Design is nowadays one of the most famous and recognized on world scale and marks the beginning of the contemporary style. The ergonomics is applied to the objects of the daily life.
1946 C066
C079
C069
C068
C070
4803
4807
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1957
Marcello Nizzoli Lettera 22 Olivetti
Gio Ponti Superleggera Cassina
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ROCOCÒ POP Pop colours on Rococò Style: Louis XV meets Andy Warhol for dinner at Enrico Cassina’s.
2011 C128
1967
1978
Andy Warhol You’re In
Alessandro Mendini Proust Cappellini
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THE SIGN PROJECT The memory of great stilistic periods is clearly used to design original lines and products: the Barocco Style creates Baricò, Louis XVI becomes Soberal and Filobì grows out from First Empire.
2012 C175
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POP GUM Interchangeability. Every colour expresses the atmosphere when the environment is experienced. The structure is in hot pressed brass with non-toxic gum covers, available in six different and interchangeable colours.
2015 C195
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PRECIOUS MATERIALS
MURANO GLASS
MOSAIC
MOTHER OF PEARL
CRYSTALS
The cooperation of two families, believing in the additional benefit of Made in Italy products, led to the birth of a new line where an original Murrina in Murano glass is enchased in a knob, as a jewel.
The elegant handles by Enrico Cassina are decorated with natural motifs enhanced by the effect of light on Bisazza mosaics, the most beautiful in the world (white and yellow gold on black and white backgrounds).
With “Moon Charme Mother of Pearl” Enrico Cassina created a Collection of refined beauty, which combines inserts in natural superlativa® mother of pearl with design and skill.
Moon Charme made with Swarovski® Elements is a Collection that takes inspiration from the awesomeness of the 20’s and 30’s. It draws the Enrico Cassina handmade skill near one of the most important manufacturer of crystal jewelry.
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O4 CUSTOM MADE
THE SERVICE Officine Meccaniche Porro design, industrialize and manufacture for Designers or Companies, starting from a drawing or a specific request.
COMPANIES
ARCHITECTURE
Our experience and our competences give to manufacturing companies a complete support for special or high precision projects
We add value to interior design projects with solutions that are personalized both in finishes and products, with the adjustment of dimensions to specific ergonomic needs or with the realization of new custom-made products.
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THE TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
The Technical Department is the laboratory where all Company knowledge is directed, in order to connect the market with the production, by continuously updating the products and their manufacturing processes.
DESIGN
SOLUTIONS
Study and execution of new production processes and
Direct relation with the commercial department to satisfy Customers’ requirements.
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
VISUAL
Realization of custom-made projects and development of new products.
Design of customized display solutions for the Customers’ showrooms.
PRODUCT ENGINEERING Settlement of production phases, tooling and production components.
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THE PROCESS Experience and technology at service of the ideas of the designers and of the companies.
DRAWING
PROTOTYPE
INDUSTRIALIZATION
MANUFACTURING
O5 TECHNOLOGICAL PLUS
RESISTANCE
HOT PRESSING Deforming at 750째 a brass rod and exerting on it a force of 3.600 tons, the desired shape is obtained. In this way, it is possible to obtain objects with complex shapes and with material compactness features, impossible to obtain with different technologies.
PVD / PHYSICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION The PVD treatment confers a very high RESISTANCE to chemical and atmospheric agents, excellent resistance to oxidation, a strengthening, compared to normal galvanic covering, of the anti-scratch resistance. 11 finishes available 20 years experience
3.600 tonnellate / 3.600 tons
Barra di Ottone scaldata a 750째C / Brass Bar heated at 750째C
Barra di ottone Deformata / Deformed Brass Bar
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Nickel
PVD
MAGNET Officine Meccaniche Porro have patented a MAGNETIC LEVITATION MECHANISM that, thanks to NEODYMIUM MAGNETS with strong coercitive force, integrated inside flush handles, makes them highly silent and unalterable during the time.
ESPERIENZA RICERCA E INNOVAZIONE
DIAMOND POLISHING PROCESS
AQUAFORM
It is a refined process used for jewels and precious objects. It gives the product:
Unique and innovative technology realized in collaboration with a researchers’ Team of the University of Brescia.
- Geometrical purity - Flatness of surfaces - Brightness
BALL BEARING The new stainless steel Ball Bearing (patent deposited) with fixed spring combined. - MECHANISMS: it removes mechanical friction and the wear and tear - AESTHETICS: it permits to obtain a thickness of the plate/rose of just 5mm - ASSEMBLING: standard drilling (diameter 22) without extra working on door
- The machine injects WATER at high-pressure in a stainless steel tube - The PRESSURE dilates the tube - The tube SHAPES on the mould - and takes geometrically flexible and sinuous shapes
The utensil used for this manufacturing is composed of a natural diamond, considered the most resistant and abrasive mineral present in nature, that contributes to the polishing and final brightness.
H2O
Water injection at high pressure
H 2O
The internal pressure dilates the stainless steel tube
Handle
Handle after the Diamond Polishing Process
Disassembled ball bearing
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HANDCRAFTED MANUFACTURING
LOST WAX CASTING PROCESS
HANDMADE DECORATIONS
PACKAGING
A wax model finely created by the artisan, covered with ceramic dust and appropriately oven-dried at 1.200Ëš, creates the cast that will work as mould for the fusion. Using this proccess, it is possible to obtain objects with complex shapes and enough accurate details.
The method is used for small objects that need extreme ATTENTION and CARE to detail. An example are the finishes Old Gold and Imperial Gold: their pigment’s shade is handcrafted.
The product, which is already checked in all its manufacturing processes, is tested again in its technical, functional and aesthetics features by a skilled worker. He also organises the packaging and, with his signature on related certification, personally guarantees its quality.
Colatura ottone nello stampo / Metal melting in the mould
Modello in cera / Clay Prototype with wax covering
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Uscita cera / Wax Loss
O6 TRADE MARKETING MEDIA AND WEB
DISPLAY SOLUTIONS The visual aspect is fundamental in our display solutions, not only to show our Collections, but also to describe the philosophy of our Brand all over the world.
100% MADE IN ITALY
ITALIAN BAROQUE
ART DÉCO
CLASSIC COLLECTION
MODERN COLLECTION
Renaissance trend in which grows the interest for the detail and for the curvilinear manufacturing of metals. The production of this period enhances ornamental motifs which are more and more lively. New elements appear such as: volutes, curls, putti, wreaths and cupids.
The geometry animates and gives a shape to the stylistic elements of this trend, that in opposition to the Art Nouveau motifs, rectifies and breaks the continuous fluent line and emphasizes the colour tones which are no more subtle and pastel colours, but full and bright tonalities. Among the symbolic motifs we can find the “step-shaped model”, a sort of progressive and specular stepped structure.
ROCOCÒPOP CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION
PRECIOUS MATERIALS MOONCHARME
Sophistication and elegance in an ensemble that is glamorous and sparkling: Moon Charme. A new handle collection realized with inserts: MADREPERLA superlativa®
Louis XV meets Andy Warhol at Enrico Cassina’s
MADE WITH SWAROVSKI® ELEMENTS
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Design MA DE
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CUSTOMISED DISPLAYS In our Company we are able to study customised display solutions according to the requirement of each single showroom.
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EVENTS We organize workshops, teaching meetings and presentations in our Company, in the showrooms of our customers and in other selected locations.
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WEB AND MEDIA PRESENCE We pay particular attention to traditional and digital media in order to protect the image of our Collections and to improve the service to our Customers.
www.enricocassina.it - www.archiproducts.com - www.edilportale.com www.archiportale.com - www.archiexpo.com
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O7 ENRICO CASSINA IN THE WORLD
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ENRICO CASSINA IN THE WORLD
HOTEL SAVOY
HOTEL BELLAGIO
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
HOTEL SHERATON
London, UK
Las Vegas, USA
Muscat, Oman
Shenyang, China
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ENRICO CASSINA IN THE WORLD
PALAZZO REALE
PALAZZO MARINO
HOTEL DANIELI
TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Torino, Itay
Milano, Italy
Venezia, Italy
Milano, Italy
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