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a history of family a history of siblings

Two brothers started the company’s adventure back in the ’60s and today a new generation carries on the dream with passion. The history of a chairs and tables manufacturing company: how it was born, how it continues its legacy.

Veneta Sedie today: wooden chairs design, manufacturing and commercialization.

Veneta Sedie Production and Veneta Sedie Trading are the company’s two souls: Tailor Made or standard ready-to-finish chairs, as well as finished furniture suitable for the best design projects.

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Giannino Rosa starts his company’s path by manufacturing handcrafted seats and rockingchairs and later expands the business to furniture commercialization.It is an age of enthusiasm, entrepreneurial spirit and passion: warm handshakes sealbusiness agreements and a suitcase is always packed, ready for travels all over Italy.

The economic boom is around the corner, an optimistic moment that will allow Veneta Sedie toincrease its staff and expand its business even abroad.During these years the first showroom is built, a place that today still shares the company’sproducts aesthetics and history.

THE ORIGINS

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1986 is a turning point: in Casale di Scodosia, surrounded by green lawns and a peacefullandscape, the very first factory becomes reality, a building that is still home of the entirecompany’s manufacturing, location and heart of Veneta Sedie Production.Surrounded by materials and machinery, Giannino’s children play while they start understandingwood and absorbing their father’s teachings: his great interest for aesthetics and hisentrepreneurial spirit.

THE TURNING POINT

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Ten years later in Merlara the company founds Veneta Sedie Trading, a new location to face storing and production needs.The market is evolving, customer get more accurate and demanding while the company jumpsinto the new scenario with high quality, unique and specialized products.

THE NEW ERA

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In 2001 Veneta Sedie promotes the creation of a group joined by seven companies fromthe same industry with the common goal to build a strong network of products and strategies. For the following few years the international expansion will lead to some of the most important international fairs, such as Tokyo, Moscow and Dubai.

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THE NEW MILLENNIUM The new millennium brings technological improvements and a new future in the company’s management: with a strong background and experience, the new generation is now ready to understand the past to draw the company’s future.

exper i ence

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When in 2010 the striking international crisis undermines hope, the reflexion on VenetaSedie’s roots and values turns hard times into innovation opportunities: disorientation istransformed into awareness and the company is ready to create its own new path, overcomingwhat is now called its “best crisis”.

“THE BEST CRISIS”

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Veneta Sedie is ever evolving.The company chooses to keep its production in Italy, in order to mantain control over the qualityand innovation that have always distinguished its work, and to invest in its main resource, people, through training and constant update, and through the attention paid to everyone’s personal and professional growth.

Listening to the customers is a precious opportunity to innovate and reinvent: this approachleads in 2014 to the creation of the Top10 line, a selection of top products, ready to be shipped and commercialized. A sartorial production follows the creation of a new line of iconic chairs, this tailored approach is developed to meet different tastes and needs and to create common and evolving projects.

NEW SOLU TIONS

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Today Veneta Sedie looks at the future with proud eyes, always ready to go beyond its limits, strongly aware of the stability and harmony that guide its road.

In 2016 the thirtieth anniversary of the first building’s construction is a new occasion tocelebrate the past and embrace the future.The showroom opened in 1976 is renewed to become a flagship store and a new context formany events: a historic location transformed into a place for gathering and conversation.

THE F U TURE

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Its long history of passion and energy shaped the company’s present, a path that led tothe expansion of production, storehouse and product range; all improvements guided by aconstant research for the best solutions and the most suitable responses to the market’s needs.

From the artisanal manufacturing of a single chair per day to thousands of chairs produced every year: Veneta Sedie grew during the years, both as a company and as a family, establishing itself through quality products and through its technological, logistical and productive know-how.

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PRESENT AND F U TURE Today Veneta Sedie combines two divisions working sinergically as two units fullyindependent yet deeply interrelated: the Production division, dedicated to the manufacture of ready-to-finish wooden chairs, and the Trading division, focused on products finishing.

Experience and efficiency are addressed to different markets: from accomodation facilitiesto architecture and design firms, from fashion to the naval industry, as well as furniture professionals, single customers and companies.

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nicola, simonE, isabElla, Enrico: wood flowing in the veins.

Rosa siblings are used to live and breath wood since they were born, having grown up along with a company in which this material is the main source of inspiration.

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NICOLAAccounting area

“Memories about the company and its history go back to our father’s personality, who is still my mentor: the mastery and the instinct to accept any

new challenge with which the market may face us.”

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SIMONEProduction area“The company as a synthesis of many ingredients, a balance of energies, a path to walk all together seeking the joy of working side by side, an eff icient and fun network of relationships.”

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ISABELLAAdministrative and f inancial area

“Energy, cohesion, order, harmony, relationship: these are my values and what I wish for Veneta Sedie to inspire.

Only someone able to embody all this can create the product.”

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ENRICOMarketing and communication area

“Each person, even if specialized on a single process, is involved and aware of the entire process of product development.One of the many bright sides of a small company, based on sharing and trust.”

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VENETA SEDIE TRADINGVia dell’Artigianato, 11835040 Merlara (PD)Italy

Tel +39 0429 844533Fax +39 0429 844534

info@venetasedie.itvenetasedie.com

VENETA SEDIE PRODUCTIONVia Nogarole, 334 35040 Casale di Scodosia (PD)Italy

Tel +39 0429 844533Fax +39 0429 844534

info@venetasedie.itvenetasedieproduction.com