Gianfranco "Franco" Serblin was born sometime in 1939, the son of Ivan Srblin, a navy soldier born in "St. Peter in the Woods" in present-day Istria, Croatia, and Antonietta Banovaz, also a Croat from "St. Peter in the Woods".
[2] Months of practice culminated in 1980, when he built his first acoustic speaker: the "Snail project", of which only ten were made.
[4] The distinctive aesthetic style of Sonus Faber, a smooth, blur-like form was conceived by Franco.
In 2006, after 33 years at the business he founded, he left Sonus Faber to pursue more boutique loud speaker design.
Currently the Ktêma speaker is still in production with Serblin's latest "Agreement" and is being marketed in 18 countries around the world.