Calligaris: Our Story

Our company has just hit its 95th birthday and it has never looked better. With almost a century of experience to draw on, I could easily be tempted to look to the past and tell you about all the achievements along the way that made us what we are today, but I wouldn’t want to bore you. Like my grandfather Antonio, the company’s founder, and my father Romeo, I prefer to turn to the future rather than look back at the past. I prefer to talk to you about the present and future of a company that was founded in 1923 when a chair cost a few Italian liras.
Today that company has a turnover in excess of 140 million. This huge achievement rests on the work of more than 660 collaborators on whose talents and skills we rely - expert draughtsmen, designers, architects, trendsetters, artisans and specialized workers. This company started out with the wood on a straw chair. Today it works with metal, fabric, leather, plastic and ceramic, availing itself of the best workers on the market and offering over 800 products which go from traditional and elegant to fun and irony so as to anticipate the desires of our vast customer base. Indeed, we have become a sound international enterprise present in over 100 countries worldwide. It is not only our products we export, it is especially our Italian flair and aesthetic sense, a love of beauty that comes naturally to us. This ability to strike a delicate balance between creativity and know-how, artistic genius and hard work is something which is only found in Italy. It is second nature to us.
We were born into it and now that we are into our 95th year, it will be with us always.
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