KARTELL

Courageous, enterprising, nonconformist and experimentalist. This is how Kartell, at the turn of its fiftieth year, addresses an international public satisfying its most diverse needs both for what regards concrete functional needs and product style. This happens through its two divisions - HABITAT furniture and accessories for the house, office and contract - and LABWARE - technical items for laboratories. Their common elements: plastics, design and technology.

HABITAT

Today the catalogue is certainly unique, composed of a wide and diversified range of industrial designer products: functional, practical, inexpensive, durable, in fashion and of quality. The assiduity with which Kartell pursues the research of new materials and forms permits them to produce designer accessories that are always at the forefront. This result is reached thanks to a constant process of innovation that deals just as much with the search for new material as the experimentation of new planning solutions so as to satisfy different needs and bring forth original aesthetic suggestiveness.

Design

Of noteworthy importance is the collaboration with internationally famous designers such as: Ron Arad, Antonio Citterio, Michele De Lucchi, Ferruccio Laviani, Piero Lissoni, Vico Magistretti, Enzo Mari, Alberto Meda, Paolo Rizzatto and Philippe Starck. They have developed original and innovative ideas that have become familiar objects.

Distribution

Kartell exports the 75% of its overall turnover in 60 countries. In addition to more than 4000 sales points, Kartell can count now on 16 Kartell Flagships Shops (independent) and 240 Kartell Shops (shop in shop) characterised by a great impact Kartell image, easy to recognise in every part of the world thanks to its coherence.

LABWARE

Labware division is a leader in the production of items in plastics, reusable and disposable for the laboratory, the research and the industry world-wide. The use of first level materials make the use of plastic as valid alternative to glass, both for economicity and for quality.

MUSEUM
tradition and culture of design

A solid reality therefore that has been built over fifty years of experience in the sector of design accessories in plastic materials. In fifty years company philosophy has always kept faith in itself and the values that are shared by their classic products, products that have to date made Kartell famous in the history of Italian and international design. The opening of the company museum (KartellMuseo) bears witness to a flourishing and intense past and the desire to ensure the participation of the international public in its deeper meaning (thanks to the ad hoc multimedia archive project where information will be found on over 700 ranges of products).