Agape Destinations

Giampaolo and Emanuele Benedini at

the Agape ‘Bosco’ headquarters near Mantova

Giampaolo ed Emanuele Benedini presso

la sede Agape ‘Bosco’ vicino a Mantova

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Ph. Mark Seelen

About Agape

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It all started almost by accident, in 1973. We often joke that that “we

would have liked to do something else”. And, instead, here we are: diving

headfirst into the bathroom, designing the most intimate space in the

domestic landscape for 50 years. Having fun, but never losing focus. Project

after project, we have continued to challenge the conventional interpretations

of the living spaces, armed with the informal inventiveness that our

Mantuan culture has given us. We perfected our vocabulary to be able to

express our vision of the bathroom and to enable architects and designers

around the world to do the same. And so, project after project, we created

our vocabulary: a broad, timeless and exquisitely Italian ‘micro-architectures

for elegant living’.

International by nature, we are also deeply attached to our ‘home’ on the

banks of the Mincio River, a stone’s throw from Renaissance Mantua. Our

land is like us: informal and hospitable, a fertile mixture of nature and joie

de vivre, culture and tradition, technology and craftsmanship, creativity and

lateral thinking. It is our land that has led us to believe that there should be

a certain, ineffable, elegance in everything we do and in the way we do it.

We are architects at heart and work with designers to create solutions that

are part of an architecture. Therefore, the products in the Agape catalog,

often born out of very specific needs, establish intense relationships with

the space that surrounds them, becoming elements of a carefully curated

language for a bathroom architecture.