Bonacina

Bonacina 1889 is an Italian furniture maker founded in 1889 by Giovanni Bonacina in Lurago d’Erba, in the Brianza hills north of Milan, combining the local crafts of basketry and furniture making with rattan from Southeast Asia.

His son Vittorio took the company into collaboration with Franco Albini, whose 1951 Margherita chair entered the collections of MoMA and the Vitra Design Museum. Under Mario Bonacina and Antonia Proserpio the firm reissued historic pieces and worked with new designers, and in 2015 Vittorio Bonacina acquired Pierantonio Bonacina to form Bonacina1889 s.r.l. Each piece is still hand-crafted by artisans who bend rattan cane and weave rattan core with synthetic materials such as Bopifil, Polypeel, Polycore and Rolon.