Arper is a global design brand that envisions products for the ways we live
Founded in 1989 in Monastier di Treviso, Italy, Arper has grown into an international voice in design. We are family owned and independently run, guided by strong values and deep sensitivity to those who use our products everyday. Life is a constant conversation with the environment around us. As the boundaries of our world melt away, work and home become one, and we are compelled to act with agency, we are all presented with the same question: how do we want to live? This project of living inspires our work and our vision.
Our Vision
A beautiful, vital world.
Our Mission
To create spaces and solutions that shape the project of living.
What we mean when we say the project of living
For Arper, the project of living is a dialogue that embraces change, whether
it applies to the world as a whole or to people as they evolve, at all stages of their lives.
Underlying everything we do is a sensitivity towards the communities, relationships, environments, and individuals for whom we design. We believe that spaces shape ideas. We aspire to a beautiful world. We create furnishings that support harmonious, comfortable living in its many forms,
that inspire and grow with us over time. We create spaces and solutions to move forward with intelligence and ease. Together, with our clients and partners, we design the world we want to live in, with openness and humanity.
Our Values
Responsibility
Acting with ambition and accountability to one another and our planet.
Care
To bring sensitivity and attention to detail in everything we do. To act with gratitude and kindness.
Openness
A curiosity for new perspectives, inspiration and ideas.
Imagination
Bringing creative, joyful and original ideas into reality.
Courage
Daring to be independent and take bold steps.
LAGO is an innovative brand in the world of Italian design. It has an expanded vision of design as a discipline that produces not just products but also meaning, capable of innovating the entire production chain and proposing new visions and new models for living. More than products, LAGO designs alphabets and invites the customer to use them, creating participatory design, from the bottom up, enriched by energies coming from the end user.
THE VISION
If a person spends most of their time in higher-quality settings, then their quality of life will also be improved.
This is the vision of design that inspires LAGO and can be summed up in the words ‘Interior Life’, an expression that indicates both our inner life, meaning the emotional sphere of each and every one of us, and the life of interiors, that is the life we lead in offices, homes, hotels, hospitals and schools; spaces that need to be planned with design that makes us feel good.
Even neuroscience has long confirmed that the environment around us has a profound influence on our interior life. We therefore need to enter in empathy with our living spaces. We need to establish a relationship, or even better, an interior resonance, between ourselves and the space around us.
Starting from this inspiring principle, LAGO has developed a modular design that works as an alphabet to be used to furnish spaces in harmony with our own interior lives.
LAGO MANIFESTO
#1 Immediate and simple.
#2 We design interiors for your interior life.
#3 We believe in the atoms and bits of human relationships.
#4 We have a compass—Head Heart Courage.
#5 We plan the solid to breathe life into the void.
#6 ____________________________
#7 Beauty lies in the vision of the whole.
#8 The essentials, for enduring over time.
#9 You are the design; we provide the alphabet.
#10 Creativity comes when you do what you love.
# 11 Never stop.
Established in 1923 as a woodworking workshop, Calligaris grew and developed to become a worldwide leading company of Italian smart design. Today, Calligaris’s product range covers the whole world of furniture, from chairs (the first product) to lighting, the last category to enter its range. Production is carried out in eight units in Italy (starting with its headquarters in Manzano, in the province of Udine) and abroad (with a semi-finished wood products plant in Croatia) and branches in the United States, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia. The sales network is based on partners and dealers in more than 90 countries. Calligaris currently has four flagship stores, 70 own-brand stores, 155 shops-within-a-shop and 324 concessions around the world.