Founded as C&B Italia
Piero Ambrogio Busnelli founds the company in joint venture with Cesare Cassina under the name C&B Italia, in Novedrate (Como), Italy. The new venture introduces cold-moulded polyurethane foam to the home-furniture sector.
Saké is a strongly contemporary seating system distinguished by a careful search for formal balance. The idea behind the line is a basic platform, magically suspended in the air like a flying carpet, with cushions to enclose the borders and feet to ground it. The seats, in three sizes, come with embracing or linear backs and armrests of various dimensions, added harmoniously to create a sofa adapted to the customer’s space and personal taste. The details of the cushions and support base contribute to the design’s lightness. The seat cushion has refined modular stitching; the back cushions, available in two sizes, are outlined by profiled bands. The support base is made of crosspieces with rounded steel feet connected to each other by a bar. The system also offers a sofa bed, adopting the other sofas’ seating and back elements.
B&B Italia's wood components are sourced through the FSC® Chain-of-Custody licence FSC-C142045 — a chain that documents wood from sustainably managed forests through to the finished piece.
B&B Italia's manufacturing operations are covered by an ISO 9001 quality-management certification — the international standard for documented quality management systems.