Baldanzi & Novelli
Adriano Baldanzi and Alessandro Novelli, after studying Industrial Design in Florence,
began to work with other colleagues, dealing with design and corporate image.
They worked for CIATTI, BIEFFE, MENOWAT, and other Tuscan companies.
In ’84, the Baldanzi & Novelli office was defined.
They established the CASAMANIA company which produced furnishing complements.
In '86 the company was sold to FREZZA. The CASAMANIA BY FREZZA brand was born.
Since then the design office has designed a huge range of products, beds, trolleys,
kitchens, and other furnishing complements. Among all of these, the outstanding article,
due to its diffusion and the admiration it has aroused, is the FESTIVAL shelving system,
designed in '88 and still up-to-date now. From 1991 the design office began to deal
with office easy chairs, designing "DATA", a small easy chair for communities, in plastic
and a metal structure. For this easy chair, the design office was awarded the FORUM
DESIGN OFFICE prize at EIMU of Milan and at 0RGATEC of Cologne.
They develop different product for CONTACT, NORDIC, VELA,VIGOR, BUM.
The office continued its experience in the seating sector, designing CAMPUS a study
seat system for universities, for EMMEGI. The B&N office designed FLOW as ever
for EMMEGI, a very attractive chair, new of its kind, from which Flow's was derived.
Subsequently, MOOD was created from the experience acquired with FLOW, an easy
chair with a mesh back-rest, producing a strong style impact. With LAMM, SITLAND
and MECO they improve their ability in designing different office chairs.