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Furnishing Idea is the portal dedicated to the furniture and furnishing industry, designed to bring together different professionals such as architects, designers, carpenters, furniture makers and manufacturers active in the furniture market who represent the reference point in terms of innovation and quality of the product offered. On the other hand, the portal aims to provide a valid information service focused on products, projects, events and fairs and everything that revolves around the world of components, semi-finished products and accessories for the furniture industry.

 

The portal is divided into different sections where you can explore the different products according to different categories, get in touch with manufacturers, download catalogues to keep up with industry trends and watch videos of interviews with the best professionals and manufacturers.

 

In the articles section you can find all the information about the most innovative product technologies, such as furniture materials, furniture accessories and systems, furniture machinery, furniture hardware, manufactured by manufacturers with a solid experience in the field. In the companies section there is an overview of the manufacturers registered on our portal, divided by product category, where you can contact us for any request. Our portal also has a special catalogues section to allow professionals and operators in the sector to view in a practical way all the catalogues relating to the various products (furniture hardware, upholstery materials, furniture paints, etc.). In addition, to allow easy consultation of the products, our portal has reserved a product section, organized by categories, where you can find out about the technical characteristics, materials and functionality of each product. The video section, on the other hand, presents numerous video interviews given by professionals and manufacturers that report news, insights and informative content on the best technologies in the sector.

 

In addition, to keep you constantly informed you can also consult our Journal section which contains all the Furnishing Idea magazines dedicated to the furniture and furnishing industry, such as the edition dedicated to Sicam or Interzum, two of the most important trade fairs in the sector. The magazines can be consulted from the portal or easily downloadable in pdf format.

 

Thanks to the trust placed in us by many manufacturers, our portal is now recognized both nationally and internationally. In fact, there are already many internationally recognized and established companies in the sector, including the AIPEF group (Italian Flexible Expanded Polyurethanes Companies) which promotes scientific information on the use of flexible polyurethane foam in the sectors in which it is used.

Lapitec: potentialities of an innovative material for the world of design

Lapitec has chosen three projects fruit of the collaboration with the academy of ‘Belle Arti’ in Verona and the faculty of Architecture in Ferrara: Taboo, Onda and Quinto Elemento. These projects have been realized by the university students who have been able to know in deepened way, during the academic year, the Lapitec, the total sintered stone. They are three creative interpretations of the potentialities of this material, applied to the world of design, of furnishing and of urban design. “The work developed with the university - Gino Sartor commented, marketing manager Lapitec – it has been very stimulating because it has allowed the students to know an innovative material and to prove themselves with the processes of creation of a prototype. Today, in fact, it is more and more essential for an architect or a designer to have clear which are the potentialities of the material and the peculiarities. On our behalf, it has been a moment of strong creative enrichment that surely becomes part of the business professional baggage.“  

Taboo is a concept - developed by the students of the academy of ‘Belle Arti’in Verona - which stimulates the reflection on the modern life styles. The students of Verona have thought about table objects, with hexagonal profile, proper for becoming phone holsters and cup holsters. The extreme workability of Lapitec has allowed therefore to realize very refined carvings which valorize the function of the object making emerging its material beauty. For Onda, instead, the students of Ferrara have looked at East, precisely in Japan, looking for a creative synthesis among the artistic Japanese tradition and the ancient wisdom of the processing of the Marble of Carrara. From this approach it was born a table that revolutionizes the concept of plan, because it breaks the linearity of the surface, creating rolling waves.   Quinto Elemento, finally, it is an external application of Lapitec, always conceived by the future architects who study in Ferrara. It deals with a structure able to host pots, but it can act as divider and as furnishing element for an outdoor space. The plates in sintered stone  are modular and they are set in a comb structure.