Leather plays a starring role at Arte&Cuoio...
This strong, natural, and flexible material should always be handled with expertise, and
intelligence (from the Latin: inter ligere = reading within) and entails a blend of
essential skills making hand-made pieces (manufacturing), hard work (labour) and ingenuity
(artificium) so as to give this material its distinctive identity highlighting its many
qualities.
As a result, leather, which is a truly stimulating material, in that it is alive and constantly
changing, demands a new design approach that should be not only highly creative but also needs
to think in terms of experimenting and using research into new technologies.
This is how Arte&Cuoio came to be founded roughly thirty years ago, in what might be
called a typically Italian scenario. It started as a company experimenting in design and
manufacturing, and soon branched out: after the first boxes and diaries in leather were made
and sold (1969-1970) came the Arte&Cuoio shop-cum-workshop which was set up in Pesaro,
soon adding a line of storage containers in 1974. In 1980 Arte&Cuoio made its first
appearance at the Milan furniture trade fair and, ever since then many of its products
have been awarded prestigious prizes winning them international recognition.
The resulting pieces are born out of a strong grasp of the complex nature this traditional
material teamed with careful research into the latest available technologies, all the
time never losing sight of present day concerns, so that, in recent years, a strong
emphasis has been place on both environmental issues and on a need to reclaim our
cultural heritage.
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