Osvaldo Borsani

A creative pioneer, visionary entrepreneur, and technological innovator. Designing products until the early 1980s, Borsani is widely regarded as one of the most prominent figures in the era of Italian modernism.

Growing up in a creative environment, being the son of a cabinet maker, he would study Beaux-Arts and train as an architect in Milan while the city was a flourishing artistic center of design and technological progress, merging craftmanship and modern manufacturing.

In 1953 Borsani founded Tecno together with his twin brother Fulgenzio. A company that would take a leading position and change the world of contract furniture in the 20th century with distinctively elegant designs, using innovative technology to express original ideas.

Country

  • Italy

Design for

Nina Nørgaard

Palle Suenson

Thanks

This website is dedicated to all those people who, in one way or another, have helped this project/dream/desire to begin and take shape.

Special thanks to my wife and my parents for supporting me, to Cristina Escarrà and Alfonso Pérez Rosales for generously sharing with me their experience as agents, to those clients who, in one way or another, have given me wise advice, to the brands that have placed their trust in me, and to Gonzalo, my godfather, who, with his always generous help, and guiding me throughout this process, is largely to blame for the fact that I can boast of being an “entrepreneur”.

Thanks also to Nuria, Rafa and Guillermo, who, to help me in the hard beginnings of any entrepreneurial activity, have opened the doors of their home, let me share with them a bit of their personal lives when I pass through their cities of residence, and give me free accommodation.

Thanks to all!