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COVO

COVO is an Italian design company, founded in 1997 by Stefano Fragapane — with the declared intention not simply to manufacture products, but to act as an "enlightened publisher of objects". The formula Fragapane chose for his programme is "not common things" — unusual, emotional design objects that operate beyond their function and address the fundamental human need to be surprised and moved. COVO describes itself as a company with "Italian DNA and international roots": the first design impulse came from the rigour of East Asian forms, whose clarity has flowed into all subsequent products — complemented by the play with irony, colour and material that characterises the collection today.

Key products: Latva coat stand (Mikko Laakkonen — discovered at the Salone del Mobile 2006, inspired by the branch forms of Finnish trees; immediate adoption into the programme), Seasons tray series (Nao Tamura — rollable, foldable, washable; Salone Satellite Award 2010), Tinello Italiano (Marcello Panza — storage furniture collection with decorations from southern Italian folk tradition), Nordico Verace stool (silk-screen printed wood, 14 decorative variants), Rebels poufs (Rosanna Contadini — hand-woven neoprene, each piece a unique item), Aureole shelves (Nicolas Bovesse — steel, wall-mounted), clocks (Aika, Tiuku), lamps, glasses (Bei, Obid). Designer partnership with the Finnish market through collaboration with Finnish Design Shop. Made in Italy.

For architects and interior designers seeking a furnishing accessories programme that has neither the coldness of pure industrial design nor the weight of representative luxury objects, COVO is the most precise Italian address — a kind of independent design publishing house that brings together talents from Finland, Japan, Belgium and Italy and allows them to design objects that want to be remembered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COVO

COVO is an Italian design company, founded in 1997 by Stefano Fragapane — with the declared intention not simply to manufacture products, but to act as an "enlightened publisher of objects". The formula Fragapane chose for his programme is "not common things" — unusual, emotional design objects that operate beyond their function and address the fundamental human need to be surprised and moved. COVO describes itself as a company with "Italian DNA and international roots": the first design impulse came from the rigour of East Asian forms, whose clarity has flowed into all subsequent products — complemented by the play with irony, colour and material that characterises the collection today.

Key products: Latva coat stand (Mikko Laakkonen — discovered at the Salone del Mobile 2006, inspired by the branch forms of Finnish trees; immediate adoption into the programme), Seasons tray series (Nao Tamura — rollable, foldable, washable; Salone Satellite Award 2010), Tinello Italiano (Marcello Panza — storage furniture collection with decorations from southern Italian folk tradition), Nordico Verace stool (silk-screen printed wood, 14 decorative variants), Rebels poufs (Rosanna Contadini — hand-woven neoprene, each piece a unique item), Aureole shelves (Nicolas Bovesse — steel, wall-mounted), clocks (Aika, Tiuku), lamps, glasses (Bei, Obid). Designer partnership with the Finnish market through collaboration with Finnish Design Shop. Made in Italy.

For architects and interior designers seeking a furnishing accessories programme that has neither the coldness of pure industrial design nor the weight of representative luxury objects, COVO is the most precise Italian address — a kind of independent design publishing house that brings together talents from Finland, Japan, Belgium and Italy and allows them to design objects that want to be remembered.