The company was founded in 1945 in Milan by Giuseppe Brion [it] (who had previously worked at Phonola [it] and Radiomarelli [it]), Onorina Tomasin-Brion, and Leone Pajetta.

[1] In 1954 Brionvega introduced the first Italian made television sets after entering into a contract with the country's national broadcaster RAI.

[1] In the early 1960s Brionvega began working with notable architects and industrial designers including Franco Albini, Sergio Asti, Rodolfo Bonetto [it], brothers Achille, Livio, and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Mario Bellini, Richard Sapper, and Marco Zanuso.

[1] In more recent decades, the company continued its practice of collaboration with acclaimed designers including Ettore Sottsass, Michael Young,[12] and Hannes Wettstein [de],[13] periodically introducing new products such as the Alpha LCD television, presented at Salone del Mobile in 2007, and the WearIt portable speaker in 2016.

[19][20] In 1992, the Brion family sold the company to Italian electronics manufacturer Sèleco (which was subsequently acquired by Industrie Formenti [it] in 1998,[1] and eventually declared bankrupt in 2004).