B&B Italia buys Azucena, the iconic design furniture brand founded by architects Caccia Dominioni, Gardella and Corradi

B&B Italia, an Italian maker of design furniture controlled by Investindustrial since 2015, bought the iconic design furniture brand Azucena, founded in 1947 by architects Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella and Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua (see here the press release). Azucena, the name of the gipsy woman character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera “Il trovatore”, was born to collect some of the founders' furniture projects and use them to furnishing the buildings they designed, individually producing some of the series' furniture. B&B Italia has recently signed a license agreement for the exclusive pro