A fifth-generation Italian company, Lualdi is built upon a long tradition of craftsmanship that dates
back to the 1880’s. Following over a half century of woodwork, the Lualdi family began manufacturing
windows for the rebuilding of post-war Milan. In the early 1960’s, Bruno Lualdi transformed the family
business into the Lualdi brand, creating tailor-made furniture and custom windows that garnered a
reputation of superior technical quality among contractors.
In turn, Lualdi quickly became known as the architect’s manufacturer of choice, early on developing
projects with renowned Milanese architects such as Vico Magistretti, Ignazio Gardella, and Luigi
Caccia Dominioni. Caccia Dominioni’s 1962 collaboration with Lualdi on a villa for the Pirelli family
would include the first example of industrial design applied to a door through the innovative use of a
high-gloss polyester finish. Cacca Dominioni’s door would go into production and remains to this day,
Lualdi’s best-selling product.
In the fifty years since, Lualdi has continued to push the boundaries of door design through the
research and application of new technologies and materials. Among the developments the company
has forged are a pioneering bull nose door without a casing and the continued perfection of the
lacquer finish it initiated a half-century earlier.
Today, Lualdi is recognized as a leading manufacturer of customized solutions for both private and
public spaces, from single homes and thousand-unit residential buildings to hotels, offices, banks,
and retail spaces. With particular attention to the human factor, Lualdi develops modular panels,
closets and door systems that transform walls into homogenous, rational, active spaces and creates
environments that provide maximum flexibility to meet the contemporary demands of the paces in
which we live, work, sleep, cook, connect and play.
Since the company’s groundbreaking design collaboration with Caccia Dominioni, Lualdi has joined
commissioned designs from such well-known architects as Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Piero Lissoni,
Robert A.M. Stern, David Rockwell and Dror Benshetrit, bringing it to the forefront of the high-end
market.
With global distribution, Lualdi is specified by today’s most well-known architecture and interior
design firms on projects around the world, from hospitality and residential developments, (Armani
Hotel, Milan; Bulgari Hotel by Antonio Citterio, Milan; Hotel Danieli by Jacques Garcia, Venice; The
Hotel on Rivington, New York City; Albion Riverside by Foster & Partners, London; Montevetro by
Richard Rodgers, London; and Epic Hotel & Condos, Miami) to offices (Il Sole 24 Ore HQ by Renzo
Piano, Milan; Gucci HQ, Milan; Rolex HQ, Milan; Milan Stock Exchange, Milan; Max Mara HQ, Kuwait
& New York; and Ameritech by Perkins & Will, Chicago), to commercial and retail design (Citibank by
SOM, NYC; CECN Bank by J.L. Berthet Pochy, Paris; Prada stores, Milan & Valencia), and more.
Sensitive and attentive to protecting the environment and the use of environmentally sustainable
materials, Lualdi has recently obtained FSC "Forest Stewardship Council'' certification. This
certification assures the consumers that the product is made of materials from socially and
environmentally responsible managed forestry.
Lualdi continues to be based 15 km outside of Milan, where the family business began over a century
ago. Under the guidance of its President, Alberto Lualdi, the Lualdi name continues to be
synonymous with quality, craftsmanship and innovation.