A family history. Tacchini is a philosophy. Behind every object there's a story and behind every story there's a person. We fall in love with our products, their stories and the stories of those who have produced them and continue to make things by hand so that this story continues, is passed on by the designer to the creator and from the creator to the future owner of the product. And than it continues further.
The design is Italian, the rest is production. And in Italy, design companies bear the names of the families that founded the brands. Like Tacchini, created in 1967 by Antonio, when production too, was almost entirely Italian, and the most poetic and soul-stirring passages in the story of design were written. Naturally in time the children become the heirs, and the new founders, in a rationale of continuous updating and redefinition of the underlying idea, and that is what is actually handed down. Equally naturally, those who frequent the family become a part of it: team members, consultants, suppliers, employees, workers and clients. Still today, in this family the strength of the idea is central to every creative process, in a logical process of evolution, from the analysis of the idea to the three dimensions of the object, before ultimately becoming the essence of living. This ongoing process ensures a sense of connection with contemporary style, which is then further enhanced by the choice of quality materials and leading-edge technology, and always referencing an all-important tradition, so as to avoid the danger of confusing style with fleeting fashions and design with simple mass production. Inevitably, the story of a family is reflected in the places they inhabit: the headquarters of a company mirrors the people who work there and the philosophy of which they aspire. The Tacchini building features an architectural structured into two storeys, a fusion of materials and spaces that blend into a complete whole, expressing in ethos and essence. In the background, Brianza, between Como and Milan, too blindingly green in summer, too grey and inward-looking in winter; these places, with their extremes, form the backdrop to this story, the very birthplace of design, where people and ideas merge with the design culture. Each object, each piece of furniture created in this building carries within it the hallmark of Italian design: the ability to give any space a sense of place, be in public or private, domestic or communal, filling it with presence.
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