Gufram

Gufram was born in Turin as an artisanal entity, where the craftsmen specialized in upholstery, cabinet making and furniture padding met the artistic and international avant-garde with the goal to give birth to a new way of understanding modern furniture. Since 1966 Gufram has been producing design icons that have become unique in form and value thanks to the cross-contamination between the industrial design approach, the artisanal creation and the imaginative flair typical of art.

Gufram's unmistakable furniture items like the couch Bocca, the chaise lounge Pratone and the hall tree Cactus (just to name a few), also known as Domestic Sculptures able to interpret the contact point between both the artistic and the design worlds, are now displayed in the most beautiful houses and in the most renowned museums in the world.

Today Gufram has once again become an important and influential voice marching to a different drummer; with its nonconformist approach it gives birth to new style icons also outside the world of Interior Design, thus contaminating all design fields from fashion – an example of which is the Moschino kissed Gufram collection – to automotive – with the project with Citroën – to everything related to contemporary aesthetics, up to the recent encounter between design and taste which seals its collaboration with Lavazza.

After the preparation of the polyurethane surfaces with precision tools and a first saturation phase, up to 12 Guflac® layers are applied by hand. Any small difference in the products is a guarantee of uniqueness of every single handcrafted item. Depending on the finishing method used, Guflac's application may make the product suitable for outside use.

Therefore, when it is not a question of furniture upholstered in fabric or parts made with the use of different materials, Gufram icons - no matter which collection they are part of - are made by sculpting the flexible polyurethane foam which is then finished or decorated by hand with Guflac® support. Examples of this mastery are the grotesque tombstone-shaped stools The End of the Toiletpaper collection and the Functional Pop seat Torneraj; Sculptural Icons include the legendary Cactus in all its editions, the incredible Pratone and the most recent Broken Mirror imagined from Snarkitecture.