company

The creative and entrepreneurial leadership of Boffi is able to

transmit today the same passion as those who founded the brand.

The solid foundation of this project is thanks to its personnel,

who are an essential resource for this Made in Italy reality that

is indelibly linked to the contemporary history of design.

This story begins inside a small artisan workshop. Each evening, the creative spark

was lit as Piero Boffi experimented, researched and executed pieces. The year was

1934 and the first inklings of what would become systems that would go on to be

part of the history of furniture design were taking shape. This instinctive passion for

shaping new ideas was passed on by Piero to his sons Dino, Pier Ugo and Paolo. In

1947, Piero established the Boffi company, an entrepreneurial culture which would

lead to an internationalisation process overseen by the young Paolo Boffi that came

to fruition following a fortuitous meeting with future Boffi CEO & President Roberto

Gavazzi. The kitchen would become a convivial space, rethought in terms of an

architectural language, modularity, functions and colours. The possibilities were, and

are, endless. With Paolo Boffi’s far-sighted ideas, there came the need for an effecti-

ve communication strategy and international exposure to distinguish itself from the

chaos of the mainstream market. This took place under the creative guidance of

Piero Lissoni and the innovative management of Roberto Gavazzi. From the kitchen

and bathroom models to the wardrobe systems, it took little time to consolidate the

entrepreneurial project as an intuitive, comprehensive offering. Over the course of

these ninety years, one has seen generations of creatives, employees, collaborators

and inspiring partnerships that are, with every gesture, an attempt to find the same

creative spark that was lit in that small workshop in Cesano Maderno. From those

fairy-tale beginnings, the dream has become a reality.

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