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The Cassina collection is eclectic, and has always been so. It is open to design projects from varying cultures and historical backgrounds, it welcomes them and makes them its own, stamping them with its own personality, its own trademark.
A Cassina product is the fruit of different professional competences and skills, from which spring results that are always original and exclusive. Products from the Cassina collection hark back to different inspirations, sometimes even contradictory. But a common feature is revealed; the courage to seek quality across different types and languages, quality that has made the Cassina product a point of reference for the international culture of design.
The “Amedeo Cassina” company was created by the brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina in 1927. After the war, Cassina continued to expand in size and fame, thanks to the excellence and quality of its products which covered a broad range of furniture including: chairs, armchairs, tables, sofas and beds.
The company’s transformation was bolstered further by a large number of commissions for cruise ships, top end hotels and restaurants which accounted for a great part of the company’s activity right up to the mid-sixties and beyond.
In 1964 the “Cassina I Maestri” (Cassina Masters) Collection was born, with the acquisition of the rights to products designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, the most important names of 20th century design. These included the iconic LC1, LC2 and LC3 armchairs and the LC4 chaise longue. Today Cassina is the exclusive worldwide licensee of the Le Corbusier designs.
The “Cassina I Maestri” collection was widened in 1968 with the acquisition from Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin of reproduction rights to some of the Bauhaus objects and in 1971 the designs of Gerrit T.Rietveld and of Charles R. Mackintosh in 1972. The Masters collection continued with the re-issue in 1983 of furniture by E. Gunnar Asplund (1934-37), the acquisition from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation of rights of reproduction (1986) of furniture by Frank Lloyd Wright, including the Barrel chair (1937), and, finally, in 2004 furniture by Charlotte Perriand.
The 1972, the New York MoMA exhibition, “Italy: the New Domestic Landscape” curated by Emilio Ambasz and sponsored by Cassina, Cassina Centre, C&B Italia, Citroën and Pirelli Industries further served to reinforce Cassina’s reputation as a leader for design innovation.
Cassina’s continuous pursuit of design innovation and quality remains as true today through the work of some of the world’s leading designers of the 20th and 21st century, “I Contemporanei” (Modern Masters) including: Mario Bellini, Gio Ponti, Vico Magistretti, Toshiyuki Kita, Theodore Waddell, Hannes Wettstein, Philippe Starck, Jean Marie Massaud, Piero Lissoni, and others.
Cassina furniture products are designed for both domestic & contract usage. Contract applications include: hotels & restaurants, public spaces, office meeting and break out areas.
