Bagatti Bronzisti
It all started with Carlo Bagatti, who produced the brass parts for the first industrial coffee machines. Then the family rode the design boom, and even today Daniele works with the greatest architects.
Carlo Bagatti began working as a bronzesmith in the Piazza Vetra area back in 1927.
His initial production focused on the brass parts of the first espresso machines for Milan’s bars. During the war, the entire square suffered a devastating bombing, but, despite the difficulties, Carlo did not lose heart and, together with his son Giampiero, managed to find a new space on Via Lanzone, right under the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio. They thought it was a temporary situation, but instead they stayed there until 2006, and that’s where Daniele, the current owner, third generation of bronze workers, began his career, leading the company since 1992.
Over the years, the company moved from producing coffee machines to producing lamps and series lighting fixtures for shipyards.
These were the years in which design was born and Giampiero decided to work for architects, abandoning mass production for art production.
Thus began a flourishing and stimulating collaboration with artists such as Gae Aulenti and Livio Castiglioni.
Daniele prosegue ed arricchisce il settore artistico. Now as then, in Via Casoretto, the soul of the workshop remains unchanged: it does not limit itself to making models for artists and architects, but creates them together with them, thus forging deep friendships.