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february 07, 2020 - Olivari

Olivari relies on the "know-how" of Made in Italy and tells it during the event “Things Well-Done Are Done Together”

Beauty and quality are the hallmarks of Made in Italy.

The "beauty and well done", as expressed in the report developed by the Confindustria Study Center "Exporting the sweet life", represents an important share of exports and therefore of Italian GDP, particularly in the "3 F" sectors: Fashion, Furniture and Food.

In a climate of economic uncertainty, Italian companies continued to strengthen and grow year after year.

The quality of the materials, the accuracy of the workmanship and the #design are the elements that make the Italian manufacture recognizable: virtuous peculiarities which will be explored during the #event "Things well-done are done together".

An important opportunity to tell the features of Italian SMEs, which develop a 100% Italian production and keep on investing in their own territory and human resources.

Among the Italian excellences representing Made in Italy as symbol of beauty and quality all over the world, #olivari has a particular place: the company founded by Battista #olivari in 1911 in Borgomanero, in the province of Novara, where the factories are still located today and the entire production takes place. Starting from brass bars, the handles are pressed, machined, sanded, polished, chromed and laser-marked.

In its hundred years of history, the #olivari family has handed down the passion for work, the care over the details and the search for innovation from generation to generation, relying on the creativity of the best designers and architects.

The #olivari identity was formed over time starting from that very close collaboration between Architects and Industry which shaped the history of Made in Italy: among many, Gio Ponti and Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella and the BBPR. Subsequently Enzo Mari, Rodolfo Dordoni, Piero Lissoni, Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders are some of the designers who collaborated with #olivari, together with great protagonists of contemporary architecture such as Shigeru Ban, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Dominique Perrault, Jean Nouvel, Ben Van Berkel. All of them have expressed their own formal language, creating minimal, sculptural, ergonomic, ironic handles ...

Milan, February 2020

COMPANY PROFILE

OLIVARI, 100 years history

In its century-old history, #olivari has always sought out the maximum in quality, relying on the creativity of the best designers and architects. #olivari family has handed down its attention to details, the search for innovation, and mainly a passion for its work, from generation to generation.

The beginnings

Battista #olivari founds the company in 1911 in Borgomanero, in the province of Novara; its plants are still there and its handles are entirely manufactured there (where the plants and the whole manufacturing process of door-handles are still located). In 1926, Battista is succeeded by his wife Antonietta Ramelli, one of the few women directing a company at that time. In the 1930s, the first collaborations with architects begin with Marcello Piacentini and Gio Ponti, two of the most important Italian architects of the era.

After the war

After the second world war the Company was managed by the brothers Ernesto, Ambrogio and Luigi, and contributes to the reconstruction working side by side with Gio Ponti, who designs an evergreen like the model LAMA, but also with great architects as Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella, Angelo Mangiarotti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni e i BBPR. They #design handles of great beauty for their own buildings that then remain in the #olivari catalogue. Some of them are still in production now, witness of an aesthetic timeless quality.

The sixties

Starting from the 1960s, #olivari is looking for new designs and decides to call on the leading exponents of Italian #design such as Sergio Asti, Marcello Nizzoli and Joe Colombo. At the same time it never stops following evolutions in technology: in 1959 it markets Bica, the world’s first anodized aluminum handle. In 1970 it introduces Boma, the first colored plastic handle. They both quickly become widely copied best-sellers.

The eighties

In the 1980s, the company is handed down to the third generation of the #olivari family and the company goes international. New designers are summoned: Giorgetto Giugiaro, Ferdinand A. Porsche, Rodolfo Bonetto, and Giotto Stoppino, who wins the Italian Golden Compass #design award with his handle Alessia.

The nineties

The following decade is marked by profitable collaboration with Alessandro Mendini, the company’s art director who rethinks the corporate image and lead it to rediscover its roots with the book “L’ architettura presa per mano. La maniglia moderna e la produzione Olivari” . This is how handles by Paolo Portoghesi, Oscar Tusquets, Vico Magistretti, Andrea Branzi, and Massimo Iosa Ghini come into the company.

The twenty-first century

In the oughts, the manufacturing system is highly automated and environmentally friendly. The Biochrome finish and SuperFinish are introduced. Rodolfo Dordoni, James Irvine, Piero Lissoni, and Patricia Urquiola are just a few of the designers involved, not to mention leaders in contemporary architecture: Shigeru Ban, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind and Dominique Perrault.

The years two thousand ten

At the beginning of the year two thousand and ten the Company’s centenary is celebrated and there is the realization of the book “Macchina semplice. 100 anni di maniglie Olivari” introduced during the Biennale Architettura in Venice and Triennale in Milan. Contemporary designers and architects such as Stefano Giovannoni, Patricia Urquiola, Jean Nouvel and Daniel Libeskind express themselves with different languages and create minimal sculpted, ergonomic, ironic handles. And then again UNStudio, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Marcel Wanders and Vincent Van Duysen end today Antonio Citterio, Carlo Colombo, Max Pajetta end Luca Casini.

What wonders can we expect from #olivari in the future?

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