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 The minute handcrafted work Which is behind each single piece of furniture. Spectacular ordinary events The Mobilificio d’Arte Marchetti has followed the tradition, within the family, re-using and exalting the antique techniques of craftsmen Techniques and avant-garde machineries are used for the first preparation of the pieces of furniture. The choice and the preparation of the semi-finished pieces is very careful and is made in a great space, tidy and rational. In some passages, it seems like turning back to past, when all was made by hand. Before assembling, the pieces are planed by experts, some of them are embellished with hand-made inlays. Skilled carpenters, mount and adapt all the pieces of furniture, one by one, to be then finished. At this point, a qualified staff prepares them to be polished and treated to have an antique look. The various phases of finishing are fractioned in a long time to guarantee that the wood absorbs homogeneously the colours. Many women work in this company; they have a special care for details, they covered the pieces with a layer of bee-wax. After controlling, a group of workers assembles and finishes the pieces by adding the fittings. The last phases are packaging and the delivery of goods, processes that are executed with a detailed care. |
| The interview “Since I was a child, without being aware of it, I had already found my way …” I am in the new showroom in Tombolo of the Mobilificio d’Arte Marchetti. While going in, I am struck immediately by the brightness and the modern cut of this space. After a brief wait, Giordana Marchetti, the designer of the Mobilificio d’Arte Marchetti’s collections, welcomes me. I am struck by her glamour and her indisputable personality. And the interview starts. Do you like your job? Yes, I do! It’s a kind of work of research in constant evolution and it gives me the possibility of expressing my creativity. What satisfy you in what you are doing? …….. above all, the fact of seeing that my ideas become concrete realizations. When I am drawing a piece of furniture I know that it will fill a space in a house in which persons live and I like to think that it can make that space more friendly and comfortable, and maybe, the persons happier. Did you begin to draw furniture for this reason or was it a duty? Since I was a child, without t being aware of it, I had already found my way. The first piece I drew was a chest of drawers for my dolls’ house, that my father made having a lot of fun. As we know, you haven’t the luck to work with your father today. What do you remember of Him? It often happens that people ask me about Him and I am very happy to speak about Him because I have various beautiful memories. He was a strong and severe man, but in the same time he was also sensitive and funny. I remember that he was always at work, both in the company and at home, always involved in creating something new. I still keep some projects he made, they were probably too much avant-garde projects for that period of time. Today, they would be surely appreciated. Did you inspire yourself through Him? Of course. He is inside any of my works. Do you work with other members of your family? Yes, I work with all the members of my family. Even if we are an joint-stock company, we can say that we are a family company. I work next to Maurizio, my brother, and we share the same office. Franca Marchetti, my mother, is the administrator and she manages the factories with the help of her brothers. Federica, my sister, deals with sales with foreign countries and, thanks to Her, our trademark is growing up all over the world. Which is your relation with people working here? There is a relation of mutual appreciation. Most of them have been always working here and we know all of them personally. Going back to your role of designer, from where do you take the inspiration to create all the new models? I think of the people I love, I like translating their needs in comfortable situations, creating amazing and funny objects in wood, and that imagination may become furniture. Giordana has known how to follow the family tradition by reproducing historical pieces, re-using and exalting the antique techniques of craftwork. Thanks to her particular creative sense and her original style, she has produced new collections proposing an new image of contemporary furniture. After this interesting conversation, I am invited to see the rest of the factory and I notice with pleasure that all are working in an absolute tranquillity. The Mobilificio d’Arte Marchetti is full of good mood, beautiful people and great energy. |
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