Calia Italia?s history begins with his founder Liborio Vincenzo Calia, a skilled master carpenter who in 1965 started to create and produce sofas in Matera. A sofa was supposed to be, as he loved to say, a piece of furniture where to rest, engage in conversation, dream? This master carpenter used to conceive new models, plan and follow-up all manufacturing stages, teach the job to trainees, take care of customer relations.
At the end of the 70s / beginning of the 80s, Calia Italia oversteps the bonds of craftsmanship and starts designing and manufacturing sofas at industrial levels.
In the mid 80s the company expands its sales to the whole domestic market and starts to look at Europe, succeeding also in the tough French market, strongly characterized by a high quality upholstered furniture?s demand.
In the following years, the company specializes in the production of the medium-high range: a product made with the highest attention to materials and design, whose primary aim was to meet the aesthetic tastes of European consumers.
In 1991 the company develops ?Centro Studi?, a development and research area with personnel qualified in design and prototypes. In 1996, by building a new 8,000 sq. mt. plant in Ferrandina, Valbasento (MT), Calia Italia widens its range of models, giving a further boost to the economy of the territory. In the following period of time, and especially in the past three years, further reorganisation and technological innovation endeavours have taken the company to a highly competitive international level, without ever leaving behind the artisan matrix of its products and the strong ties with Matera and its people.
Under Saverio Calia?s artistic direction and Giuseppe Calia?s commercial strategy, Calia Italia is now able to introduce more than 50 new models a year, with a wide range of coverings in leather and, as of 2011, also in fabric: a collection of approximately 30 different items available in over 400 colours.
Calia Italia distributes its commercial offer to a continuous growing international market, that from Europe opens up to the Middle East, reaching the Far East ? with China, Korea and Japan at the top of the list ? thanks to an overall Italian production located in the Murgia area of Matera, the core of the Upholstery District, and to a state-of-the-art logistic system. Calia Italia?s finished product Automatic Warehouse is in fact the biggest in Europe, with a storage capacity of over 20,000 seats.
Cosy shapes, careful attention to details, functionality and design: Calia Italia gets inspired by the real beauty of its land, made of rocks and skylines, when designing its comfortable products, to be lived in and shared.
Calia Italia master artisans? skilled hands create sofas, armchairs and sofa-beds destined to households all over the world, a spontaneous synthesis of style and simplicity, so that beauty would always match with comfort.
Geometric lines and tridimensional shapes with a contemporary or classic style, supported by a ?made in Italy? that is a guarantee of quality, detailed and unique products. Projects rising from the core of the company, the result of experience and sensitivity nourished by decades of a continuously growing and innovative production activity.
Three line-styles hold Calia Italia?s world, singled out to meet different needs and requirements.
Urbana is dedicated to those who prefer a contemporary and accurate style, still comfortable and unquestionably Italian. These are significant sofas, to welcome your guests with elegant informality and enjoy your living space with ease and functionality.
Soft, large and cosy: the Emporio & Relax collection has been thought for households where active life never stops: to talk, to create, to play, to sleep?. Domestic isles where grown-ups and kids can lie down and securely feel at home.
Finally our sofa-beds, from the Night & Day line: sofas that promptly respond to the contemporary?s life pace, easily turning into comfortable sofa-beds to then turn again, with simple gestures, into large and comfortable seats for every moment of the day.
Calia Italia?s research is not restricted to shape and function, as it goes on searching for new aesthetic, tactile and visual perceptions.
A wide range of fabric coverings has been newly introduced in 2011: approximately 30 assorted items with a choice of over 500 colours, to meet all tastes. Minimal or unusual textures, bright or less intense tones evoke unique sight and touch suggestions, thus offering different aesthetic and housing solutions.
The fabric range comes alongside sofas and chairs in leather, a material that Calia Italia has always selected and worked with the utmost attention.
The choice of the supplying tanneries, the strict selection of the hides to be used and the work of master artisans? skilled hands guarantee that Calia Italia?s products are made with a unique, perfect quality.
Together with a wide range of colours and items, Calia Italia is able to offer different resistance standards, so to ensure the best possible leather on any kind of sofa, both elegant and sophisticated and ?homey and lively?.
Calia Italia?s history begins with his founder Liborio Vincenzo Calia, a skilled master carpenter who in 1965 started to create and produce sofas in Matera. A sofa was supposed to be, as he loved to say, a piece of furniture where to rest, engage in conversation, dream? This master carpenter used to conceive new models, plan and follow-up all manufacturing stages, teach the job to trainees, take care of customer relations.
At the end of the 70s
