As part of a program of general reorganization, De Padova has moved its operative offices from Milan to Vimodrone, where the logistics, research and quality control departments were already functioning in the renovated historic facility founded by Fernando and Maddalena De Padova. Combining all services in a single headquarters should improve the efficiency of the company, with advantages for the network of dealers and customers.
The growth, also on an international scale, of our company has made this rationalization necessary. In particular, De Padova will now be closer to its production sources: this will permit gradual improvement of timing in the introduction of new products and in terms of control of quality levels.

Some historical facts

The Vimodrone facility was founded in 1958 to produce pieces of furniture from the Herman Miller collection, which would later be joined by the production of the Interparete system designed by Herbert Heiche, as well as products by other designers like Ross Littell, Rolf Heide and Vico Magistretti.
In that period Fernando and Maddalena De Padova created a collection of furnishings, focusing on the leitmotiv that inspired George Nelson in his work as a designer: “spaces should adapt to people, people shouldn’t have to adapt to space”.
The design of the headquarters at Vimodrone was done by Pietro Belletti, a civil engineer. It was described as follows by a magazine at the time: “In Vimodrone, just outside Milan, ICF De Padova has built a large center for production of furniture and furnishing elements. The complex can be said to be divided into two sections, plant and office-showroom, occupying a large area and composed of volumetrically differentiated parts harmoniously inserted in a single block”.

The headquarters today

The renovation project began in 2001, with the collaboration between the architects Enrico Capelli and Vico Magistretti. The work was supervised by the architect Maurizio Ambrosoli.
Luca De Padova explains: “Today, with the move of all the operative offices to the historic Vimodrone facility founded by my parents, we have completed the passage that began back in 2001 with the move of the logistics and quality control divisions. The entire complex is surrounded by a garden. Some of the trees were planted when the headquarters was opened in 1958: an immense magnolia, a beech, and two cedars”.