CUF Milano
CUF Milano is a brand of Centrufficio S.p.A., a Lombard company founded in 1986 by Roberto Motti that designs and manufactures office furniture, seating and partitions. Over the years, Centrufficio S.p.A. has opened 20 own-brand branches in northern Italy, as well as three warehouses in Milan and three production sites, also specializing in office fit-outs. Centrufficio S.p.A., in fact, has a team of 12 architects, capable of designing work environments in both the preliminary and executive phases. In 2009, Roberto Motti's daughter Rossana, currently vice president of the B.o.D., joined the company, followed in 2016 by her sister Chiara, employed in the foreign sector.
CUF Milano is a spin-off conceived to bring to the world the excellence of made in Italy, and, more precisely, the "made in Milan" that has always been a source of pride and boast for the parent company: in fact, all projects and furnishings are conceived and designed in the capital of design. The idea, the technical drawing, the prototype of the product all start from Milan, and CUF Milano was born precisely to affirm even more how central the quality of the product is for Centrufficio: in addition to being functional and having a high aesthetic impact, it must always be made with the best materials, resistant, and respecting the environment and safety regulations during the entire production cycle.
CUF Milano collaborates with renowned designers in the field, such as Daniele Lo Scalzo Moscheri, Progetto CMR, John Bennett, Sakura Adachi, the Studio Origoni Steiner, Itamar Harari and Matteo Silverio. CUF Milan also has an in-house R&D office for the design of operating lines and partitions, putting into practice one of the fundamental points of Centrufficio's philosophy: to offer free consulting and design to furnish with modern, top-quality products with a high design content, at more than reasonable costs, with a view to what is called "designcracy," with special attention to the environment.
Centrufficio, in fact, has joined several initiatives for the study of environmental impact in the office world, collaborating in European projects, such as Fibereuse, for the use of circular economies and the creation of new materials derived from them, which also led it to be mentioned in the Green Italy 2021 and 2022 reports.
Another distinguishing feature of the Company, which is particularly significant in the current economic contingency, is its ability to supply all its products on a prompt delivery basis, thanks to the fact that it has a warehouse of more than 30,000 square meters at its disposal. In this way, all projects, even those with very little time available, can be followed up effectively and efficiently.
Sakura Adachi
Sakura's work is characterized by a combination of conceptual approach and craftsmanship. Most of her products immediately communicate the story behind their concept, and the designer's ability to make the best use of materials and their characteristics. In particular, her design process focuses on people's relationship with objects and the type of use for which they are intended, which is why her products often have characteristics of multifunctionality, transformability, versatility, and space-saving.
She received her BA in Industrial & Craft Design from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, specializing in woodworking, and his MA in Industrial Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London.
She has been living and working in Milan since 2004. She has collaborated with a number of renowned design studios on furniture and lighting designs for both domestic and office settings. After opening her design studio in 2008, she has collaborated with leading Italian and international manufacturers such as Alessi, Campeggi, Riva1920, Taschen, Estel, Martex, Fermob, Tura and others.
Her products have been selected by Red Dot Design Award, ADI Design Index in 2016, Good Design Awards in 2019 and many other awards. Since 2014 she has been teaching the Industrial Design course at the Pordenone branch of ISIA Roma Design.
John Bennett
After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he began working with Tecno in Milan on numerous projects, bringing design ideas for industrial processes and the concept of "Design without Fashion," a characteristic that can be found in many of his later works as a consultant.
In 1987 he opened a studio in Milan specializing in furniture and product design, increasingly focusing his work on combining human factors, materials and production processes into a unified final concept.
With his studio he has developed furniture and products for Tecno Spain, Frezza, Estel, and Martex in Italy, and more recently for Versalink in Malaysia and Vohaw and Victory in China. For the Masters in Furniture Design at Polidesign in Milan he serves as Project Coordinator and for Politecniico di Milano Adjunct Professor in Product Design.
His work has been selected for major exhibitions, and has received awards and recognition such as: "ADI Design Index", "Design Plus - Light and Building Award", "Good Design", The Chicago Athenaeum, "Best of NeoCon Competition" and Chicago Editor's Choice Award, the Silver Prize at CIFF 2012 in China, at MIFF 2016 the Platinum award for the best office furniture category.
Itamar Harari
Israeli by birth, Italian by adoption.
He was born in Tel-Aviv, graduated in architecture in Florence, then moved to Milan where he collaborated in the studios of Marco Zanuso and Atelier Alchimia. In 1992, also in Milan, he opened his own architecture, design, staging and consulting studio. Among his architectural projects: in Italy, the elementary school in Melzo (Milan); the cemetery extension project in Gozzano (Verbania). In China, Villa with park in QingDao; in England, design for a museum dedicated to Anthony Caro in London; in Israel, factory. As well as a series of residential buildings and apartments in Milan, Florence ,Tel-Aviv, Dominican Republic, China, commercial spaces in Dubaj, Beijing, Milan and Moscow, and the Made in Italy Salon in Moscow.
Designer and art director of entrepreneurial entities also operating in sectors other than furniture, he lectures in Milan, Padua, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Beijing, Guangdong and curates design, graphics and photography exhibitions in Milan, Tel-Aviv, Florence, San Marino. Numerous contributions to Italian and foreign specialized magazines.
Currently the studioʼs activity ranges between architecture, interiors and design proposing new suggestions and solutions through a personal point of view, in which technology is applied to a pleasant, exciting and communicative creativity.
Matteo Silverio
He is a Venetian architect and researcher expert in computational design and digital fabrication. During his professional career he has collaborated with several international studios, serving as lead designer and project manager in the development of innovative projects, many of them winners of international competitions.
Since 2017, he has been leading a multidisciplinary team based in Murano (matteosilverio.com) with which he promotes and develops projects on different scales and sectors, making use of horizontal knowledge and contaminating "distant" fields: coding to optimize forms or minimize waste, biology to paint pictures and produce energy, and chemistry to transform waste into works of art in a circular economy perspective. Many of his projects have been published in magazines and books, and exhibited in prestigious museums or institutions such as the Mint Gallery and Saatchi Gallery (London), the Design Museum in Dubai, and the Corning Museum of Glass (New York).
In addition to his professional practice, Matteo combines teaching and research activities in the field of computational design and digital fabrication, with a focus on issues related to environmental sustainability and circular economy. He currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rovereto, the European Institute of Design (IED) in Venice and the IUAV University of Venice.
Moss Trend
MossTrend creates stabilised green furniture products: the products are made of natural lichen, handmade and designed in Italy.
The integration of a natural element completely revolutionises the conception of the surrounding environment with a concrete advantage on people's health and the quality of work of those who spend several hours a day in it.
Stabilised green is a 100% natural material that requires no maintenance, as it needs no sunlight, requires no water and does not attract dust. Moss Trend is the perfect choice for anyone looking for innovative solutions for the interior design of their furniture or business.
RS Barcelona
RS Barcelona designs with passion to create memorable experiences with its unique game tables and furniture. A collection that inspires people to live more creatively, friendly and sustainably. Seeking beauty in simplicity and focusing on the refinement of details to make authentic objects that enrich the spaces we inhabit and share. And they do this by highlighting the power of play. Because play is an attitude. An expression of optimism. They invite us to play without complexes or restrictions. Daring to play in scenarios where it was not appropriate to do so, reinterpreting the conventional to make it iconic. Finding the balance between design and fun. Fusing refinement with illusion and joie de vivre.
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