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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.

Samet: the Contest of Design You(r) Inside has been inaugurated

The opening event of the Design You(r) Inside Contest saw the attentive, interested and inspired participation of 60 inventive students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. The students of the Product Design course, led by the teacher and designer Roberto Semprini, visited the Samet Showroom of Grassobbio (BG) touching with their hands the various products of the company fitted on the furniture of the best design brands and focusing on systems of drawers. The Director of Samet Italia Stefano Minelli talked about how he came up with the idea of launching a design contest for the young students of the Academy, highlighting that the real advantage of Samet and the distinctive feature of the group is a strong desire to create and add value. The company, now the fifth group worldwide in the sector of functional furniture industry, is happy to give a personal contribution to the whole sector - traditionally focused almost exclusively on functionality and mechanics - being inspired by shapes and designs. To follow, the intervention of the designer Roberto Semprini, coordinator and soul of the Contest, which has given its students a few thoughts on the topic of the “poetry of drawer“, giving examples of philosophers, writers and artists of the past and contemporary ones, who have transformed the drawer into a work of art and an endless source of inspiration, from Salvador Dalì to Shiro Kuramata. Yet the drawer, which lends itself to metaphorize deep, hidden, dynamic worlds, lurks a danger: the obsession with classifying. For this reason, a warning and together a final wish addressed to all the participants was to open their minds to create in total freedom without limits nor building barriers. At the end of the meeting, the marketing manager of the Samet Group, Pinar Uçkan, has unveiled to the students the philosophy of the group, the constant investment in Research&Development, the range of products that Samet exports to one hundred countries in the world and has presented the Smart Flow more closely: the new lightweight and minimalist drawer which Samet will bring to the market and on which the young students have to develop and create their own personal “poetry of drawer“.