History

De Padova introduces a new collection of office furniture (home/office) that completely overthrows the traditional concept of furnishings and spaces for work.

Achille Castiglioni designs a series of displays for the De Padova shop windows, adding another unique aspect to the company ’s style.

Important steps are also taken in the contract sector. At the end of the Nineties the company begins to work with Renzo Piano on the furnishings of the cafe of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. This collaboration would continue in the future, with the furnishings for the Morgan Library ’s restaurant in New York and the headquarters of Il Sole 24Ore daily newspaper in Milan.

When Gaetano Pesce and De Padova join forces in September 1999, it is the meeting of two unique entities: the uniqueness of the works of Pesce, and that of the De Padova showroom, a crossroads of ideas and stimuli.

“A store ought to move, to produce sensations, to offer visitors a meeting place for cultural initiatives that generate interest, curiosity, emotion.”(Maddalena De Padova).