Danese Milano

Danese Milano is an Italian design company founded in 1957 and based in Milan, producing objects for the home and the office: calendars, ashtrays, desk accessories, bookcases, puzzles, sculptures, tableware and furniture.

Its catalogue was built with some of the central figures of Italian design — Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, Angelo Mangiarotti and Achille Castiglioni — and their pieces, among them Munari’s Cubo ashtray, Mari’s 16 animali puzzle and Bilancia calendar, are still in production. Since 1999 Carlotta de Bevilacqua has led the company, extending the archive with designers including Naoto Fukasawa, Marti Guixé, Michele De Lucchi and BIG; between 2017 and 2018 Ron Gilad directed the brand and redrew its logo. Danese Milano is now a division of Artemide.