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Milan Design Week 2026
20 – 26 April
Manerba Showroom
Piazza San Simpliciano

ETHEA MDW 26
The message is clear and immediate: “You are entering the colorful world of Manerba.”
Designed collaboratively by Ilaria Marelli Design and Samuele Savio of Choice-Studio, the Manerba showroom installation is an invitation to be enveloped and moved by the gentle power of color.
Choice-Studio handled the graphics, lighting, and the colorful spatial envelope; the designer of ETHEA tuned into this vision by creating a layout and selecting furnishings with a color palette capable of generating a positive and lively atmosphere.
Samuele Savio states: “For years, color has been an important value emerging from Manerba furniture; through the use of vibrant colors on the walls, we have given the space the same value as the product.”
Ilaria Marelli says: “We staged the ETHEA collection across two levels. On the first, the product is almost bare—essential, crisp, abstract, like in a museum setting. On the second, it is more contextualized, practical, and concrete. In both, the dialogue of chromatic elements and product tones plays and reflects within the colors of the architecture.”

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Milan Design Week 2026
7 – 13 April
Manerba Showroom
Piazza San Simpliciano

Sharing – Vitality – Color – Nature – Physical and mental well-being: these are the core values of the shoot, which portrays new ways of living and working by creating a coherent dialogue between each product and people, enhancing Manerba’s creative expression and its concept of a gentle total office—an inclusive approach that pays close attention to personal well-being and the rediscovery of collaboration.
A project in which every combination of color, material, and finish achieves expressive flexibility on both a design and aesthetic level.

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Milan Design Week 2024
15 – 21 April
Manerba Showroom
Piazza San Simpliciano

DOLMEN Back to Essence, by Federica Biasi
Manerba is pleased to invite you to its showroom in Brera to introduce DOLMEN Back to Essence, a temporary installation curated by Federica Biasi. Monolithic blocks that, through explanatory videos and graphics, will demonstrate how material and colour choices define the architecture of a furniture collection and an entire environment.

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Milan Design Week 2023
17 – 23 April
Manerba Showroom
Piazza San Simpliciano

Freedom Space, by Federica Biasi
For Milan Design Week, Manerba introduces “Freedom Space”, a temporary installation by Federica Biasi in the showroom in Piazza San Simpliciano in the Brera District.
The visitor will discover the new “Super Random” system designed by Gio Tirotto moving between various islands: whether they are the intimate spaces created with armchairs and sofas of Federica Biasi’s “Kokoro” system, or strictly operational spaces fitted with Shane Schneck’s “Apollo” elevating rationalist desks or spaces for “separate sharing” of Busetti Garutti Redaelli’s large “Amis” tables.

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Manerba at Fuorisalone 2022:

Bucolic atmospheres of conviviality

It’s inspired by the celebration of Midsummer, an ancient festival that falls on the Summer solstice, the floral display at the Manerba’s showroom in Piazza San Simpliciano during Milan Design Week 2022.

Anticipating the watershed between the Winter and Summer seasons by a few weeks (this year’s Milan Design Week takes place exceptionally from 6th to 12th June), Federica Biasi, Manerba’s art director, decided to take inspiration from the celebration of nature’s cycles in choosing the concept.

The lightness of a shared joyful moment, the romanticism of long Summer days, the warm hues of wheat fields will be evoked by the new setting, which will enhance the conviviality of the new collections of furniture for workspaces, co-working, co-living and workspitality.

The natural sobriety of the setting for the presentation of the new 2022 products is consistent with the theme of sustainability, which Manerba has pursued since its origins, namely respect for the environment, as demonstrated by the company’s many certifications, including the FSC certification.

Integrations for the “Kokoro” meeting & seating system by Federica Biasi; a new highly functional glass wall system “Luce” designed by Paolo Pampanoni, which can be fitted with shelves, curtains and acoustic panels; the ergonomic “Lia” and “Yuma” chairs, designed for office and home office; the harmonious “Giunco” modular wooden screen by Deamicisarchitetti.

With the formal cleanliness and sobriety that distinguish Manerba’s style and design, each covering, colour and finish reflects the imagery of natural shades, from sand to orange.

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The Meeting&Seating system Kokoro, designed by Federica Biasi, is widening its range: the multiservice box, the 2-seater bench with table and a standard-sized panel are added to create a meeting-system, combining multiple high-back sofas.
Designed to create new spaces within larger environments, moving from a co-working logic to a co-living dimension, Kokoro is inspired by modularity, freedom, and hospitality, which result in functionality, flexibility and comfort.

Kokoro multiservice box designed for coffee breaks or high support surface.

The structure of the Kokoro two-seater bench is made of plywood, the seat is made of polyurethane foam covered in a wide range of fabrics.
The coffee table, located to the right or left of the two seats, has a wooden top, while the base is in painted metal with oval section feet.

The new Kokoro square panel, with its sound-absorbing function without looking like a real acoustic panel, simply and intuitively attaches to the backs of the high-backed sofas in the collection, to quickly configure two-element acoustic islands.
The panels can be fitted with coat hooks, metal shelves lacquered ton sur ton or in contrast.
As for the Kokoro unit upholstery, there is a wide choice of eco-friendly fabrics in trendy colours.

Kokoro Multiservice Box: L. cm. 130 x D. cm 85 x H. 130

Desk Top size cm 120×50

Kokoro 2-seater bench with right/left table L. 235 x P. 68 x H. 46cm

Kokoro Meeting-system panel cm 135 x 135h, H. final 145cm

Manerba is a 100% Italian office design family company, founded in Mantua in 1969. Its Industrial imprinting includes an 80% female team, a production with a focus on sustainability, great adaptability and design support for architects and interior designers (thanks to a specialized Technical Office) for any type of project, as confirmed by the numerous references.

Lia and Yuma are ergonomic seats for the contemporary office environment, even at home.

Both fitted with a seat upholstered in polyurethane covered with a careful selection of fabrics, they exhibit a backrest, padded or not, supported by an elastic, flame retardant mesh and a resistant polyurethane shell (for Yuma available in white or black finish, for Lia in light grey or black finish).

The shifter integrated in the seat and the adjustable lumbar support in height and depth inserted in the backrest, as well as the synchronized mechanism of the two parts, make Yuma and Lia extremely comfortable for all hours of work at the desk.

The adjustable armrests, the height adjustment with gas piston, the synchronized mechanism with lateral tension adjustment and seat translation, the 5-spoke based on wheels: a series of technical characteristics that give Lia and Yuma all the ergonomic principles and functional requirements to be extremely comfortable, according to the new standard EN 1335-1:2020 which is the European standard for office chairs.

Both armchairs are certified with the Ministerial Approval in Class 1IM.

Lia is also available on a fixed basis, for meeting or waiting rooms.

Manerba is a 100% Italian office design family company, founded in Mantua in 1969. Its Industrial imprinting includes an 80% female team, a production with a focus on sustainability, great adaptability and design support for architects and interior designers (thanks to a specialized Technical Office) for any type of project, as confirmed by the numerous references

The Meeting & Seating system Kokoro, designed by Federica Biasi, is designed to create new spaces within larger environments, moving from a co-working logic to a co-living dimension. Kokoro is inspired by modularity, freedom, and hospitality, which result in functionality, flexibility and comfort.
Kokoro is a system of sofas – with 2 and 3 seats, with or without armrests, linear, angular, double-sided, with or without integrated tables – armchairs, benches, tables and working boxes (since 2022 also bench with integrated table, multiservice box, and meeting system panels).
Its elegant shapes were designed to create a sense of intimacy, welcoming people inside, and at the same time offer design versatility thanks to the variety of composition.

The structure of the Kokoro seats is made of plywood on a metal base, seat and cushions are made of polyurethane foam of three different densities, covered in a wide range of fabrics.
The backrest of the sofas and armchairs, in two heights, has a sound-absorbing function: without looking like a real acoustic panel, in its highest version it turns into a box-capsule, an acoustically insulated alcove.
The panels can be fitted with coat hooks, metal shelves lacquered ton sur ton or in contrast.
The base is in painted metal with oval section feet, perfectly coordinated with the integrated low tables.
As for the Kokoro upholstery, there is a wide choice of eco-friendly fabrics in trendy colours.
The bases of the Kokoro sofas, like the panels, are set to be wired.

Manerba is a 100% Italian office design family company, founded in Mantua in 1969. Its Industrial imprinting includes an 80% female team, a production with a focus on sustainability, great adaptability and design support for architects and interior designers (thanks to a specialized Technical Office) for any type of project, as confirmecd by the numerous references.

Giunco is a natural, harmonious, and functional screen for the separation and configuration of spaces.

The series of versatile curved screens “Giunco”, designed for Manerba by DEAMICISARCHITETTI, adds to the version of cylindrical elements in natural ayous wood, arranged along a metal plate painted Moro Sablé, the two variants with uprights in matt black lacquered wood and chromed metal elements and with uprights in matt octane lacquered wood and matt white painted metal elements.

Giunco was already used in many projects, to furnish reserved corners in open spaces, waiting areas, restaurants or hotels and lends itself to modelling the configurations for the new ways of working and distancing.

A product of immediate understanding and use, welcoming in shape and craftsmanship in manufacturing.

The three basic types (curved, linear, circular) can be aggregated to give rise to multiple spatial configurations.

All types are available in two different heights.

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Manerba is a 100% Italian office design family company, founded in Mantua in 1969. Its Industrial imprinting includes an 80% female team, a production with a focus on sustainability, great adaptability and design support for architects and interior designers (thanks to a specialized Technical Office) for any type of project, as confirmed by the numerous references.

Manerba is a 100% Italian office design family company founded in Mantua in 1969.

With an 80% female team, a careful focus on sustainability and the green economy, it is part of its industrial DNA to support to architects and interior designers (thanks to a specialized Technical Office) for any type of project, as confirmed by the many projects.

The company, founded in Mantua by Sergio and Federica Manerba in 1969, while retaining the original imprint of “beautiful and accurately manufactured”, managed to interpret the deep changes in the world of the office, a mirror of the technological, social, and cultural revolution that in half a century changed the lives of human beings.

Manerba was labelled as the “tailor of offices”: a workshop where design, industry and crafts coexist. A company made up of 80% women, led by the two tenacious and competent sisters, Elisa and Grazia and the founder Federica Manerba.

The art direction of the collections is entrusted to Federica Biasi and confirms the chromatic harmony, the aesthetic balance, the technical care and the attention to the distribution in the space of different types of products (seats, systems, tables, screens, partition walls) able to furnish both workspaces at home and shared workspaces.

Manerba’s projects combine craftsmanship and industrial strength. A unique soul matching the excellence of the Boutique with the capacity of the Industry. It aims at furnishing a harmonious, non-standardized, highly customizable workspace that puts everyone in a position to feel good and work efficiently.
Manerba is an industrial company, able to deal with large-scale projects and supplies of contract furniture with the same expertise inherent in custom-made projects.

The raw materials of the collections are chosen on the basis of their recyclability. Recycled wood and FSC® are used (coming from forests managed correctly and responsibly according to strict environmental, social, and economic standards) then aluminium and glass, all materials are assembled with disassembly logic to dispose of them according to ISO14001 procedures.
The Manerba R&D division is constantly striving for certified sustainable materials. The company is committed to using more and more CAM certified products according to minimum environmental criteria.
It also uses VOC-free epoxy powder paints (volatile organic compounds) for painting.
The packaging is contained to the maximum, in order to optimize dimensions and transport costs with consequent benefits for emissions.

The atmosphere of the Milanese single-brand showroom in Piazza San Simpliciano in Brera, in the days of the Fuorisalone 2022, recalls bucolic atmospheres of conviviality.
Merit of the “Midsummer” exhibition, by the art director Federica Biasi, inspired by the celebration of the ancient feast that falls on the summer solstice.

We are learning that in order to return to leaving in peace in shared spaces, for some time, we necessarily must be subject to new rules of social distance to assure everyone’s safety.
At office or in the gym, in a shop or at a restaurant, in the queue at the reception or in the outdoor area of a bar, at the hairdresser or the beauty center, everyone asks for security without having the feeling of being in a fish tank.
MANERBA has developed, in collaboration with Federica Biasi, Hinoki, elements in order to separate without dividing.
A series of screens and dividing partitions, which are freestanding if they are on the ground or hooked to structures if they are applied to a desktop.
They are modular structure which divide spaces with the purpose of making people feel as little separated monad as possible.
The touch of the color, the semitrasparency of the material and the simplicity of the design make Hinoki a family dividing element which can be easily integrated in several locations.
Hinoki is a polycarbonate semitransparent panel which is set in a metal structure with a flat freestanding section, on the ground or on castors, powder coated in several Manerba lacquered finishes in order to chromatically coordinate it with other collections of the catalogue.
The choice of the material, the polycarbonate, is due to its resistance, flexibility and refractoriness to the use, the scratches and the chemical agents.
Hinoki will be made also in other materials such as glass, plexiglass, cork, magnetic board, wood and with the possibility to be upholstered with fabric with sound-absorbing features. It could be customized in the size and personalized with hooks, elastic bands, magnets and moving coat rack.

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Salone del Mobile.Milano

9-14 April 2019

Hall 6 Stand C31

 Manerba, 50 years of Evolving Offices.

Female energy at the Salone del Mobile for a flexible and desirable wonder office.

Manerba attends the 58th edition of Salone del Mobile, with a project based on the business heritage of the company, that celebrates this year the fiftieth annyversary of its establishment, to propose a “boutique” vision of the office, a wonder office dreamed of and desired by each one of us, and above all a friendly one (in a set up arranged by Studio Milo). Every material, finish, shade is not accidental but functional to its definition, to accomplish a highly customizable harmonic workspace, which we would all like to experience in order to work well.

Manerba will welcome the visitors of the Salone in Hall 6 with the involvement of a cosmopolitan design “voice”, Philippe Nigro, who designed Stem for the evolving offices company: not a simple bookcase, but a microarchitectural structure, 3 elements: columns, crossbeams and shelves, from which an “infinity system” of design solutions for the office develops and sprouts in height as in width (and in time): containing bookcase, partition, wardrobe, “acoustic device”, lounge area … precisely like the leaves from the stem.

The thirty-year-old designer Federica Biasi has been appointed the company’s creative direction, symbolically entrusted to her in the year of the fiftieth anniversary, with the aim of creating a young and contemporary, feminine and elegant style, able to interpret and satisfy the new ways of living and working. Each product combines in a coherent way, enhancing the creative expression of Manerba and its concept of gentle total office, attentive to the well-being of the individual and the recovery of the privacy sphere, even in open and co-working environments.

Simply we do not work as we did 50 years ago, but not even as last year. The office is not dead, has reinvented itself. It is more and more transversal, as devices have moved them elsewhere: in museums, airports, hotel lobbies, cafés, co-working… And for Manerba changing and evolving using the so typically feminine intuition and kindness represent the art de vivre, rather the art de travailler. 

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