Founded in 1956 by Pierangelo Gallotti and Luigi Radice in Cermenate, a town near Lake Como in Brianza, northern Italy, renowned for its generations of highly skilled furniture makers.
The Gallotti&Radice story
A shared passion for glass shaped the early days of their design studio. They established an artistic space dedicated to the material, where tradition and innovation were blended to create small-scale production of precious pieces. The first designs included lighting, furnishing items and mirrors, all one-off designs made exclusively by hand. As the collection grew, so did the vision of the studio. Pierangelo Gallotti and Luigi Radice enrolled at the School of Industrial Art at the Sforza Castle in Milan, where they studied design and decoration that would lay the foundations for the company, and shape its identity through craftsmanship and innovation.
The early days as an artistic studio devoted to glass decoration established Gallotti&Radice as one of Italy’s most respected luxury furniture houses. Throughout its 70 years of manufacturing, glass has remained the common thread. Reinvented over time from a technical material into a means of expression, at Gallotti&Radice design emerges from the encounter between artisanal excellence, design research and openness to the world. Here, the idea of craftsmanship as a cultural heritage is preserved and passed on, while simultaneously engaging contemporary technologies and new forms of experimentation.
Today the company is led by the second generation of both founding families, Silvia and Massimo Gallotti, and Marco Radice, and represents elegant total living solutions where each product is designed to interweave traditional Italian know-how with details that transcend boundaries.
The early days as an artistic studio devoted to glass decoration established Gallotti&Radice as one of Italy’s most respected luxury furniture houses. Throughout its 70 years of manufacturing, glass has remained the common thread. Reinvented over time from a technical material into a means of expression, at Gallotti&Radice design emerges from the encounter between artisanal excellence, design research and openness to the world. Here, the idea of craftsmanship as a cultural heritage is preserved and passed on, while simultaneously engaging contemporary technologies and new forms of experimentation.
Today the company is led by the second generation of both founding families, Silvia and Massimo Gallotti, and Marco Radice, and represents elegant total living solutions where each product is designed to interweave traditional Italian know-how with details that transcend boundaries.
‘At Gallotti&Radice the idea of craftsmanship as a cultural heritage to be preserved and passed on, focuses on the handcrafted techniques, artisanal decorations, and meticulous attention to detail reflecting a sensibility that places time, materiality, and the quality of human workmanship at its centre.’
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The iconic pieces of Gallotti&Radice and the international designers who shape the collections today
In the early years, Pierangelo Gallotti and Luigi Massoni shaped important pieces that reimagined glass. In 1969, Luigi Massoni designed Adam, the brand’s first table created completely from light, transparent, elegant glass and it was an unexpected success. The iconic President desk designed by Studio G&R followed in 1971, then the T35 Trio table designed in 1975 by Pierangelo Gallotti. All part of the collection today, each piece is defined by clean lines and timeless elegance, innovation and aesthetic refinement. And characterised by a key element of Gallotti&Radice’s production: the metal joint. Over time this detail has become a defining stylistic feature of the company and a distinctive signature.
Gallotti&Radice has developed strong relationships with established and early career designers internationally, who help to reveal and enhance their DNA. Through close collaborations with designers including Studiopepe, Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces, Samuele Tremolada, Federica Biasi, and host of others, the brand continues to explore new creative paths with a strong focus on technological innovation and sustainability, two of their fundamental pillars.
The approach to sustainable production is embodied in the Re-verre collection, a series of tables designed by Federica Biasi, and Pleiadi, created in collaboration with Studiopepe. The Re-verre collection stems from Gallotti&Radice’s desire to experiment with contemporary ways of reusing glass, a material that has always been part of the company’s DNA and over the years has reinterpreted itself through sophisticated finishes. The Pleiadi is a modular decorative wall covering by Studiopepe that combines sustainability and innovation in interior design. Made from cotton linters and natural clays using a cold artisanal process without synthetic dyes, While the Half-Pipe armchair by Meda & Quincoces and the Ri-Giro table by Samuele Tremolada, explore the poetry of regeneration highlighted through the tactility of ‘BonBon Glass’ formed from recycled glass powder in deep burgundy ‘ciliegia’ and silvery ‘menta-glaciale’. It’s this work that fosters future forward pathways, where glass remains the brand’s core material and also its identity.
Gallotti&Radice has developed strong relationships with established and early career designers internationally, who help to reveal and enhance their DNA. Through close collaborations with designers including Studiopepe, Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces, Samuele Tremolada, Federica Biasi, and host of others, the brand continues to explore new creative paths with a strong focus on technological innovation and sustainability, two of their fundamental pillars.
The approach to sustainable production is embodied in the Re-verre collection, a series of tables designed by Federica Biasi, and Pleiadi, created in collaboration with Studiopepe. The Re-verre collection stems from Gallotti&Radice’s desire to experiment with contemporary ways of reusing glass, a material that has always been part of the company’s DNA and over the years has reinterpreted itself through sophisticated finishes. The Pleiadi is a modular decorative wall covering by Studiopepe that combines sustainability and innovation in interior design. Made from cotton linters and natural clays using a cold artisanal process without synthetic dyes, While the Half-Pipe armchair by Meda & Quincoces and the Ri-Giro table by Samuele Tremolada, explore the poetry of regeneration highlighted through the tactility of ‘BonBon Glass’ formed from recycled glass powder in deep burgundy ‘ciliegia’ and silvery ‘menta-glaciale’. It’s this work that fosters future forward pathways, where glass remains the brand’s core material and also its identity.