Cassina (company)

A. is an Italian manufacturing company specialised in the creation of high-end designer furniture.

[2] After the war, Cassina continued to expand in size and fame, with products which covered a broad range of furniture including: chairs, armchairs, tables, sofas and beds.

[6] 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.

[12] 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 Rietveld, Frank Lloyd Wright, and of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1972.

[14] The 1972, the New York Museum of Modern Art exhibition, "Italy: the New Domestic Landscape" curated by Emilio Ambasz, was co-sponsored Cassina.

Carimate Chair designed by Vico Magistretti in 1959 and produced by Cassina
Model 683 chair designed by Carlo De Carli [ it ] was awarded the 1954 Compasso d'Oro
LC2 armchair designed by Le Corbusier , Pierre Jeanneret , and Charlotte Perriand (1928) and Eileen Gray side table
Nuage bookcase designed by Charlotte Perriand