Monitillo1980 (Monitillo Marmi srl) is an Italian natural stone design company — founded in 1980 by Francesco Monitillo in Altamura (Bari, Murge region, Apulia, south Italy), a place with an ancient stone-working tradition. The sons of Francesco Monitillo are today's owners and have developed the company into a globally recognised design brand through collaborations with international designers and architects, international presence at Maison&Objet (Paris) and Salone del Mobile (Milan) and new design collections. Guiding principle: thinking of stone — especially marble — as a design object; fully controlling the path from rough stone to design furniture for private or contract environments. All collections Made in Puglia (Murge).
Materials: marble, onyx, granite, travertine, bronze, metal. Technology: from manual processing to CNC precision, transferring the tradition of manual craftsmanship to machine processing — with a highly skilled workforce for manual finishing. Designers: Studiopepe (City Collection — Maison&Objet 2024, dining tables, consoles, stools, accessories with soft, precise geometry), Claesson Koivisto Rune (Vela — smooth dynamic modules; Parallelo — lines and grooves for light play), Andrea Maffei (Punto — round metal accents in marble surfaces), Felix Millory (Tecton Collection — Salone del Mobile 2025, sculptural approach). Product categories: furniture/Home Collection (dining tables, coffee tables, consoles, stools, lighting — travertine + bronze accents + warm earth tones), Walls&Floors (wall coverings, flooring), Bathline (washbasins, bathtubs).
For architects and interior designers seeking for luxury residential, ultra-luxury hotel, high-end retail and demanding international natural stone design contract projects an Apulian natural stone design company founded in 1980 by Francesco Monitillo in Altamura (Apulia, Murge region) and developed by his sons into an international design brand that with the guiding philosophy of stone as a design object (rough stone → furniture), fully Made-in-Puglia production, design partners including Studiopepe (City Collection), Claesson Koivisto Rune, Andrea Maffei and Felix Millory (Tecton) and presence at Maison&Objet and Salone del Mobile — Monitillo1980 has fully controlled the path from rough stone to design furniture in Altamura since 1980: the Murge stone-working tradition in marble dining tables by Studiopepe, wall modules by Claesson Koivisto Rune and sculptural forms by Felix Millory — Made in Puglia.