Pininfarina Extra Information

Global icon of Italian style, Pininfarina is a prestigious 360° design powerhouse recognized for its authentic and disruptive innovation and the unparalleled ability to create timeless beauty. The design house was founded in Turin-Italy in 1930 by Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina, one of the most legendary car designer of all time. In 1986, continuing the family design legacy, Paolo Pininfarina founded Pininfarina Extra, with the mission to expand Pininfarina design vision into other fields of design, transportation, and architecture. Since its foundation, over 500 projects have been developed, gaining appreciation from the consumer market and the design community. Today, products bearing the Pininfarina name have won acclaim in the world’s leading markets. The design vision is to blend the most advanced features of scientific and technological research to create the most attractive design features and maximize the everyday user experience. In 2013, the expansion of Pininfarina Extra culminated with the creation of Pininfarina of America, based in Miami, Florida. All together the Pininfarina Extra group’s activities span across Industrial Design (electronics, sporting goods, furniture, equipment and machinery, consumer products, graphic design, and packaging), Architecture and Interiors (residential, hospitality, sport and commercial structures), and Transportation Design (yachts, airplanes, private jets, people movers). Pininfarina Extra has received endless awards during the years, the most recent being: 2016 iF Design Award for Cyrela by Pininfarina Architecture and Interiors, 2015 American Architecture Award for Vitra by Pininfarina, 2015 Good Design Award to the “Beauty of Sound” for Magnat LZR980 by Pininfarina headphones, the Anuga Awards for best packaging of the international product Lauretana bottle by Pininfarina.