Gervasoni
Gervasoni is a Friulian Italian furniture manufacturer for indoor and outdoor furniture, upholstered furniture and accessories in the premium residential and contract furnishing segment, founded in 1882 in the Province of Udine as a small artisan enterprise for wickerwork under the name "Premiata Società Friulana per l'Industria di Vimini" (Award-winning Friulian Society for the Wicker Industry). In 1925 Giovanni Gervasoni took over the company; since then it has been managed as a family business. The current third generation — Giovanni and Michele Gervasoni — leads the company, headquartered in Pavia d'Udine (Friuli). In 2009 Gervasoni acquired IFA S.r.l., a company specialising in high-quality wooden chairs, and founded the contract brand Very Wood. In May 2015 Gervasoni joined Dexelance Spa, an industrial platform for premium Italian design furniture. Gervasoni collaborates with designers from diverse backgrounds: Chiara Andreatti, Federica Biasi, Gabriele and Oscar Buratti, Cristina Celestino, David Lopez Quincoces, Nendo, Federico Peri, Elena Sanguankeo, Michael Sodeau, Jasper Startup. Previous Artistic Director until 2020: Paola Navone.
Signature collection: Ghost (Paola Navone, 2004; 2024: 20th anniversary). Ghost stands for a removable cover (housse) over a lightweight frame — sofas, armchairs, beds, daybeds in a freely transformable formal language. The collection has freed itself from fashion trends and is today considered a benchmark product in contemporary design for informal elegance. Further collections: NEXT, BRICK, ALLU, INOUT and others. Product categories: sofas, armchairs, chairs, tables (indoor + outdoor), beds, storage, textiles, accessories, lighting. Materials: natural, contemporary, exotic and technical materials — processed in respect of their intrinsic qualities. Contract references: hotels, resorts, restaurants, offices, shops. Headquarters: Pavia d'Udine, Friuli.
For architects and interior designers seeking for residential, hotel, restaurant and office projects a Friulian furniture manufacturer that since 1882 has grown from a wickerwork tradition into an internationally recognised residential and contract furniture brand, is responsible for the Ghost collection (Paola Navone, 2004) — a design icon product produced for twenty years — and with designer collaborations from Nendo to Federica Biasi builds an eclectic, internationally curated style cosmos — Gervasoni started in 1882 in Friuli with wicker baskets and developed Ghost with Paola Navone in 2004: a removable housse as a design principle, celebrated in 2024 as a 20th anniversary — Nendo, Federica Biasi and Cristina Celestino as contemporary continuation, Dexelance since 2015 as growth platform, 140 years of family history as foundation.
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Gervasoni
Gervasoni is a Friulian Italian furniture manufacturer for indoor and outdoor furniture, upholstered furniture and accessories in the premium residential and contract furnishing segment, founded in 1882 in the Province of Udine as a small artisan enterprise for wickerwork under the name "Premiata Società Friulana per l'Industria di Vimini" (Award-winning Friulian Society for the Wicker Industry). In 1925 Giovanni Gervasoni took over the company; since then it has been managed as a family business. The current third generation — Giovanni and Michele Gervasoni — leads the company, headquartered in Pavia d'Udine (Friuli). In 2009 Gervasoni acquired IFA S.r.l., a company specialising in high-quality wooden chairs, and founded the contract brand Very Wood. In May 2015 Gervasoni joined Dexelance Spa, an industrial platform for premium Italian design furniture. Gervasoni collaborates with designers from diverse backgrounds: Chiara Andreatti, Federica Biasi, Gabriele and Oscar Buratti, Cristina Celestino, David Lopez Quincoces, Nendo, Federico Peri, Elena Sanguankeo, Michael Sodeau, Jasper Startup. Previous Artistic Director until 2020: Paola Navone.
Signature collection: Ghost (Paola Navone, 2004; 2024: 20th anniversary). Ghost stands for a removable cover (housse) over a lightweight frame — sofas, armchairs, beds, daybeds in a freely transformable formal language. The collection has freed itself from fashion trends and is today considered a benchmark product in contemporary design for informal elegance. Further collections: NEXT, BRICK, ALLU, INOUT and others. Product categories: sofas, armchairs, chairs, tables (indoor + outdoor), beds, storage, textiles, accessories, lighting. Materials: natural, contemporary, exotic and technical materials — processed in respect of their intrinsic qualities. Contract references: hotels, resorts, restaurants, offices, shops. Headquarters: Pavia d'Udine, Friuli.
For architects and interior designers seeking for residential, hotel, restaurant and office projects a Friulian furniture manufacturer that since 1882 has grown from a wickerwork tradition into an internationally recognised residential and contract furniture brand, is responsible for the Ghost collection (Paola Navone, 2004) — a design icon product produced for twenty years — and with designer collaborations from Nendo to Federica Biasi builds an eclectic, internationally curated style cosmos — Gervasoni started in 1882 in Friuli with wicker baskets and developed Ghost with Paola Navone in 2004: a removable housse as a design principle, celebrated in 2024 as a 20th anniversary — Nendo, Federica Biasi and Cristina Celestino as contemporary continuation, Dexelance since 2015 as growth platform, 140 years of family history as foundation.