Opinion Ciatti

The origins of the Italian company Opinion Ciatti go back to the year 1950. Already in the third generation today – the Ciatti family company is constantly enlarged.

While in the first productions there were still bulky recorders and radio boards, the products adapted to technical innovation along the time, with TV-boards, TV holders and PC boards.

The company made a great step in 1984:Flavia and Massimo CIatti presented the company on the Milan furniture rair for the first time in the company’s history. A collection of kitchen elements with the name “Ciatti a Tavola”, which has been expanded in 1986 by the collection "Axis”, was presented, becoming one of the first flexible modular kitchen systems.

At the same time, wict the management of Flavia Ciatti, the company began to cooperate with numerous famous designers such as Gianni Pareschi, De Pas D’urbino Lomazzi, Bruno Pozzi, Marco Duina or Christophe Pillet in the 1980es.

A huge development also came with the meeting of Flavia Ciatti and the curious and utopist experimenter Bruno Rainaldi in the 80es. Both friends founded the company CCR in 1983, focusing on furniture, loungers, chairs, mirrors and more objects. Especially one product designed by Bruno Rainaldi himself attracted a lot of attention:
Ptolomeo – one of the most sold products in the company, for which Rainaldi even won the desired Compasso d’Oro Award in 2004. Different editions of the purist book-tower followed.

Flavia’s grandson Lapo Ciatti entered the company as studied industrial designer in the third generation in the year 2006. His ideas led to a restructuring of the company, also with a new name “Opinion Ciatti”. The creative performance still comes from Bruno Rainaldi, however the base was trespassed to Calenzano and the name CCR replaced.

In an artistic as well as company-oriented connection, Bruno Rainaldi and Lapo Ciatti manage the business today. Design is the experiment and game with forms, according to both of them. This understanding is mirrored in the expressive products of Opinion Ciatti. They moreover reflect a non-dogmatic research as well as their passion for design, which have always been important aspects of production for Opinion Ciatti.

Opinion Ciatti works together with design-masters such as Marco Bertolini, Paola Navone or Jeff Miller today.

website of the manufacturer: http://www.opinionciatti.com