Azucena

Azucena was founded in 1947 by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella and Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua as an Italian brand combining formal elegance, understated luxury and aesthetical purity at the highest standard. Named after the gypsy in the opera Il Trovatore, it was created to furnish the buildings the architects had designed and to produce individual pieces within their furniture collections.

That approach produced iconic pieces, above all the Catilina chair, presented in Milan in 1957 and recognisable for marrying different but very refined materials reworked into traditional stylistic forms. Acquired by B&B Italia to preserve it as part of Italy’s heritage, the brand was relaunched in 2018 with modern classics by Caccia Dominioni from the late 1940s: chairs, sofas, tables and lamps sold through B&B Italia monobrand stores.