Casa Covre is an Italian furniture brand, founded by Matteo and Eleonora Covre as an independent label of the Covre family — a master saddlery family with a leather-working tradition since 1980, when Giulio Covre founded the parent company Covre as a leather processing business and rapidly established it as a leading supplier to the high-quality furniture and automotive industries. The parent company continues to supply semi-finished leather-covered components to leading Italian and international furniture manufacturers. Casa Covre is the logical consequence: Matteo and Eleonora Covre transfer 40+ years of their father's saddlery expertise into their own furniture production and marketing — handcrafted, with nautical design inspiration, as a direct extension of saddlery practice into the residential domain. Design collaborations: Marina Bani and Marco Penati (both internationally recognised architects, associated with Giulio Covre for over 20 years).
Core material: leather and hide (processed using traditional saddlery techniques). Combination materials: plywood, solid wood, marble, metal (various finishes), fabric, crystal, eco-leather for interior linings. Product categories: chairs (Palio, Baia), tables (Urbino), sideboards (Toscana, Naviglio, Victoria), chests of drawers (Lido), desks (Siena, Portofino, Victor), mirrors (Volterra, Pisa, Lago), trunks (Romeo, Giulietta, Dakar), decorative panels (Mosaico — made from leather offcuts), lighting (Adamo and Eva). Thematic DNA: port cities, boat hulls, nautical architecture, solidity combined with elegance. Made in Italy, entirely handcrafted, no serial production.
For architects and hospitality designers seeking a craft-independent Italian furniture label in which the specific material language of saddlery — its haptics, its stitching techniques, its combination of leather with precious support materials — is consistently translated into complete residential and hotel furniture programmes, Casa Covre is the most innovative and most materially specific address in the segment of leather-upholstered contract furniture.