Brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina officially founded “Amedeo Cassina” in 1927, in Meda, in the Brianza area north of Milan. In 1935, the company changed its name to “Figli di Amedeo Cassina”. It was primarily engaged in cabinet making for the production of coffee tables. Product designs were created in-house. 

Cassina is the first to sign big orders with the contract market. Designing, with Gio Ponti, the interior decor for the Italian transatlantic liner Andrea Doria, Cassina was the first to export made in Italy style to the United States.

Production began on the 699 chair, known as the Superleggera, product of the partnership with Gio Ponti and the experimentation and skills of the Cassina artisan joiners. Through a gradual lightening of the structure and alterations to the shape of the uprights on the original 1952 version of the Leggera chair, this lightweight (just 1.7 kg) yet strong wood chair became an icon of Italian design around the world.

Production of the models, designed in the 1920s by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, are recognized as among the most significant furnishings in the Modern Movement and explicitly states the desire to build a collection based on the principles of modernity and excellence. 

Designed by Mario Bellini, the Milan showroom in via Durini occupies a surface area of about 1,200 square meters. The street-level boutique is built around a stunning 8-meter high and nearly 20-meter-diameter cupola. Over the years, the space was redesigned by V. Magistretti, C.T. Castelli, A. Castiglioni, G. Tintori, P. Lissoni and P. Urquiola. 

New York’s MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) celebrates Italian design with the show: “Italy: the new domestic landscape”. Consistently active in the area of culture and innovation, Cassina crafted the Kar-a-sutra concept car designed by Mario Bellini. Its identity lay somewhere between home and auto. The prototype exerted significant influence on the automotive industry in the years that followed becoming the precursor to the modern MPV multi-purpose vehicles.

Mario Bellini reflects on the far-reaching significance of the furniture contained in the catalogue “Il libro dell’arredamento secondo Mario Bellini”, a collection of unique objects, like the La Rotonda table. The Cab chair ‒ an object that shares one feature with mankind: a skin fit over a skeleton made of tubular steel ‒ was designed at the Cassina Research Center workshop. A game-changer, it became part of the MoMA permanent collection in New York.

Experiments conducted by Gaetano Pesce at the Research Centre led to the development of an innovative production technique and the ensuing patent issued for the production of furniture made of felted wool saturated with thermo-hardened resin to ensure its qualities of durability and rigidity.

Thanks to the extreme simplicity with which it blends comfort, versatility and elegance, the Met sofa becomes a symbol of the 1990s. The partnership with Piero Lissoni illuminates a lengthy series of successes, due in part to the ability of his products to serve as pioneer and interpreters of contemporary style.

The Cassina I Maestri collection is expanded to include furniture by Charlotte Perriand. Already a co-author of the furniture designed with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, throughout her lifetime, she developed many very original pieces. Their re-edition reveals and broadens awareness of her vision that was so observant of expressions, functions, materials and of the art of living. 

Provocative and witty, traditional and tech-trendy. With this collection, the innovative capitonné tufting motifs are so visually powerful they become an international patent. 

A daring challenge to the laws of equilibrium. The only exemplar of the 1940 bookcase comes back to life, thanks to extensive research conducted by Cassina, in partnership with a team of experts, on the use of modern technologies while respecting the authentic spirit of an experimental design.

The elegant, minimalist approach of Piero Lissoni is distilled into a new, hugely popular, sofa. The 8 (Otto) sofa owes its versatility to a modular structure that blends comfort with bespoke attention to detail.

A new art director for Cassina. She debuted with two products with bold personality for a new domestic landscape ‒ the Gender armchair and the Beam Sofa System, a soft seating system supported by a beam. 

For 50 years, the home of ideas and innovation. The space in via Durini is renovated, thanks to a design by Patricia Urquiola. A contemporary retail experience that places special attention on the creation of a dialog between the products, through warm, inviting settings, coordinated through a sophisticated moodboard of colors and materials. 

Enter the new Cassina collection for architecture and design Professionals, oriented toward certified projects and designs. Cassina Pro is a new collection specifically designed for the hospitality sector and for work spaces.