Officine Tamborrino is an Italian design brand for steel furniture — rooted in 1957, when Vincenzo Tamborrino, an experienced blacksmith, opened the "Tamborrino Mechanic Workshop" in Ostuni (Province of Brindisi, Apulia, southern Italy) and developed the first shelving prototype with screw bolts. From this workshop Scaffsystem developed — today an established Apulian steel-processing company for architectural solutions and logistics systems. 2012: launch of Officine Tamborrino as the Design Division of Scaffsystem — application of decades of steel know-how to design furniture. Inspiration source: aesthetics and linearity of Italian design of the 1950s. Guiding principle: giving steel a new personality — combining solidity and stability with lightness and poetic form.
Product structure: "Core" line (the brand's fundamental products) + Capsule Collections (designer collaborations). Core products: Prima Bookcase (modular steel shelf, interlocking system, infinite configurations), No Smoking Chair (steel frame + seat in recycled paper), Grace Console (steel/laser-cut, fine line), Cambusa kitchen cabinet (steel + oak, inspired by the American locker of the 1920s), Let's Talk table (sharing design, sheet metal profile cuts). Capsule Collections: "O Design Collection" (Alessandro Guerriero — circle as universal form, Periplo table), Nuvola Collection (2022, Mario Cucinella Architects — cloud form in steel, bronze palette, table/console/coffee table/mirror). Laser-cut technology. Micro-architecture: modular/flexible/eco-compatible housing modules (Officine Tamborrino Architetture).
For architects and interior designers seeking for design residential, boutique hotel, coworking, retail store and demanding international steel design contract projects an Italian steel furniture brand founded in 2012 as the Design Division of Scaffsystem (steel-processing family company since 1957, Ostuni, Apulia) that with the aesthetics of Italian design of the 1950s as guiding inspiration, core products including Prima Bookcase, No Smoking Chair and Grace Console and capsule collections with Alessandro Guerriero (O Design) and Mario Cucinella Architects (Nuvola, 2022) elevates steel to the primary design language of contemporary furniture culture — Officine Tamborrino follows the linear aesthetics of 1950s Italy while remaining fully contemporary in execution and design partnership: steel with lightness and poetry, from Ostuni, Apulia.