An international company with solid national roots, UniFor has been drawing direct lines between its Turate headquarters and major international centres since the 1970s. It has done this with landmark works and by opening showrooms all over the world, starting in 1975 with the purchase of the space at 6 rue des Saints-Pères in Paris. Rome and Milan followed, all designed by the skilful hands of Afra and Tobia Scarpa.

The 1990s saw UniFor expand overseas, opening its own space in New York and extending its European network through the London office. It was a short step from there to the weaving of a global network: UniFor entered the Asian market with new spaces in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney,Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

In November 2022 inaugurates the showroom in Milano, Viale Pasubio: an exhibition space, a meeting place, a workshop of expertise, a setting to present the company’s proven know-how in designing special and customised projects, as seen in the bespoke interiors designed by the Herzog & de Meuron architectural practice.

UniFor conceives and designs solutions for the contemporary office, with a particular commitment to the architecture that renders it, at the same time, idiosyncratic and special. Interprets the complexity of workplaces with simple solutions, using both customised and standard products and transforms architects’ visions into public and private spaces—then objects, then icons.

A place dedicated to design and production, for UniFor, the Factory is both industry and workshop, where technologically advanced manufacturing processes go hand in hand with craftsmanship. From the Factory, UniFor oversees the developments affecting working environments around the world, communicates with large corporations, with excellence in manufacturing and with architects, whose insights define functions and outline new directions for spaces.
The Factory is a place where technical and construction conditions are studied and analysed, where the company’s workshops are tasked with assessing feasibility, and where every piece of data in the first instance plays a part in the design process and then in the production development of the project.

UniFor’s history is made up of collaborations and dialogues. Not “just coincidencies” but real encounters, those with architects and designers, made of mutual intentions and brought about by an affinity of views. At the heart of these dialogues lies the design and creative challenge, an exercise in planning and realisation under particular, unique conditions, always carried out with foresight and pragmatism.

Products stem from projects: hardly ever the result of abstract thinking about form, they are instead the result of a vision of the space that translates new approaches to use, envisaging individual and collective behaviours linked to working environments and beyond.
The result is a super-abacus of products, built upon collaboration after collaboration, project after project, drawing after drawing, embracing the uniqueness of each designer, from Aldo Rossi to Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Jean Nouvel, Michele De Lucchi, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Andrée Putman, David Chipperfield, without swallowing them up, but making them part of an integrated design experience.

“UniFor does not play the part of the architect, but translates his vision into reality.” This quote by engineer Piero Molteni is a mantra that best expresses the company’s commitment to offering its customers a made-tomeasure service rather than mere furnishing elements.
The harmony of thought with the architect, which has been UniFor’s commitment from the outset, translates into products designed to satisfy the individual demands of identity, flexibility, sharing and social interactions of each customer and therefore of each project. Like an expert tailor, UniFor listens, transforming suggestions and needs into flawless and perfect solutions in terms of aesthetics, function and attention to detail.

Each project, for UniFor, stems from the specific character of a place, an architecture, a well-defined typology: the space of work, of private life, study, culture, retail, but also that of institutions and public buildings. These architectures, which cannot be separated from the furnishings that populate them, are constantly evolving in relation to socio-cultural and technological factors.
Banks, insurance companies, corporations, institutions, shops, but also museums, theatres, and libraries are the places where UniFor furniture has welcomed boards of directors, meetings, exhibitions, and success stories, creating settings to accompany the needs and desires of the most valuable and irreplaceable of resources: human capital.

UniFor embarks on a daily responsible path towards the environment and the surrounding society. Our mission is to promote sustainable projects focused on innovation, resource conservation and process improvement while implementing conscious practices in terms of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria.
Regarding environmental policies, since 2009 we have initiated a process of containment and rationalisation of consumption, starting with the installation of a photovoltaic system, self-generating energy to support office lighting and air conditioning. The careful selection of cutting-edge technologies, combined with the implementation of advanced processes, reduces the impact of our production activities on the environment and human health.