Opinion Ciatti
Opinion Ciatti is an Italian design furniture company — founded in 1950 by Rolando Ciatti in Borgo San Frediano, Florence/Oltrarno, as Italy's first company to produce furniture specifically for television sets (TV benches). Family history: 1950 Rolando Ciatti (founder) → 1984 Flavia Ciatti + art director Gianni Pareschi (Ciatti a Tavola at Salone del Mobile — steel as a domestic material, revolutionary) → Bruno Rainaldi (artistic direction) → 2003/2004 Rainaldi as official art director → Ptolomeo bookcase (Compasso d'Oro 2004) → 2006 Lapo Ciatti (Rolando's grandson, third generation, CEO + Artistic Director; renaming to Opinion Ciatti) → 2013 Lapo Ciatti's first solo collection → 2016 OFF Paris Seine (first floating hotel on the Seine, first hospitality project by OC) → 2018 Ducasse sur Seine (Alain Ducasse, floating restaurant, OC interior with Maurizio Galante/Tal Lancman). Production: Calenzano, near Florence. 300+ surfaces and materials. OC Bespoke Service.
Icons: Ptolomeo bookcase (Bruno Rainaldi, Compasso d'Oro 2004, freestanding, disappearing structure, books as protagonists), Uptown bookcase, Chaperon coat stand, Pepe pouf, Bon.Bon storage, Tab.u stool. Current collections: Lapo Ciatti (ILtavolo 2.0, Koji, Pacifico, Oodh mirror), Raffaella Mangiarotti, Bruno Rainaldi legacy. Product categories: bookcases, tables, chairs, armchairs, mirrors, lamps, accessories. Motto: "spices and sauces for spaces" — objects that define atmospheres through their mere presence. 100% Made in Italy (Calenzano).
For architects and interior designers seeking for design residential, boutique hotel, floating restaurant/hotel, creative agency and demanding international contract design projects an Italian design furniture family company founded in 1950 by Rolando Ciatti in Florence and today led by Lapo Ciatti (third generation, CEO + Artistic Director) that with the founding history as Italy's first TV furniture company (1950), Flavia Ciatti's steel-into-living revolution (1984), Bruno Rainaldi's Ptolomeo Compasso d'Oro 2004 icon, the OFF Paris Seine (2016) and the Ducasse sur Seine floating restaurant (2018) carries three generations of Florentine design narrative — the Ptolomeo bookcase by Bruno Rainaldi (Compasso d'Oro 2004) has distilled Opinion Ciatti's guiding principle into a single object: reduce the structure until the books themselves become the design.
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Opinion Ciatti
Opinion Ciatti is an Italian design furniture company — founded in 1950 by Rolando Ciatti in Borgo San Frediano, Florence/Oltrarno, as Italy's first company to produce furniture specifically for television sets (TV benches). Family history: 1950 Rolando Ciatti (founder) → 1984 Flavia Ciatti + art director Gianni Pareschi (Ciatti a Tavola at Salone del Mobile — steel as a domestic material, revolutionary) → Bruno Rainaldi (artistic direction) → 2003/2004 Rainaldi as official art director → Ptolomeo bookcase (Compasso d'Oro 2004) → 2006 Lapo Ciatti (Rolando's grandson, third generation, CEO + Artistic Director; renaming to Opinion Ciatti) → 2013 Lapo Ciatti's first solo collection → 2016 OFF Paris Seine (first floating hotel on the Seine, first hospitality project by OC) → 2018 Ducasse sur Seine (Alain Ducasse, floating restaurant, OC interior with Maurizio Galante/Tal Lancman). Production: Calenzano, near Florence. 300+ surfaces and materials. OC Bespoke Service.
Icons: Ptolomeo bookcase (Bruno Rainaldi, Compasso d'Oro 2004, freestanding, disappearing structure, books as protagonists), Uptown bookcase, Chaperon coat stand, Pepe pouf, Bon.Bon storage, Tab.u stool. Current collections: Lapo Ciatti (ILtavolo 2.0, Koji, Pacifico, Oodh mirror), Raffaella Mangiarotti, Bruno Rainaldi legacy. Product categories: bookcases, tables, chairs, armchairs, mirrors, lamps, accessories. Motto: "spices and sauces for spaces" — objects that define atmospheres through their mere presence. 100% Made in Italy (Calenzano).
For architects and interior designers seeking for design residential, boutique hotel, floating restaurant/hotel, creative agency and demanding international contract design projects an Italian design furniture family company founded in 1950 by Rolando Ciatti in Florence and today led by Lapo Ciatti (third generation, CEO + Artistic Director) that with the founding history as Italy's first TV furniture company (1950), Flavia Ciatti's steel-into-living revolution (1984), Bruno Rainaldi's Ptolomeo Compasso d'Oro 2004 icon, the OFF Paris Seine (2016) and the Ducasse sur Seine floating restaurant (2018) carries three generations of Florentine design narrative — the Ptolomeo bookcase by Bruno Rainaldi (Compasso d'Oro 2004) has distilled Opinion Ciatti's guiding principle into a single object: reduce the structure until the books themselves become the design.