Billiani has been making chairs in Italy for well over a hundred years together with the most brilliant minds of Italian and international design.
Billiani started up in 1911 when Luigi, a carpenter, and his wife Delina, daughter of a chair maker from Mariano, opened a small factory in Manzano. At that time, although Manzano and Mariano were just ten km apart, they were separated by the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.
This is what characterized and still characterizes Billiani: a border crossing that was to become so very influential, a key to design, straddling tradition and experimentation; for production, whether on a small or industrial scale; for the products themselves, the applications of which overlap in contract and residential settings.
In 1986 the third generation joined the company and Billiani became synonymous with seating for large orders, destined especially abroad.
At the end of the nineties Luigi Billiani, who has the same name as his grandfather and had trained as an architect, decided to go down the design path and, together with his wife Veronik Romanutti, created the Billiani of today.