Citterio

About

Citterio S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of office furniture and movable partition systems based in Sirone, in the Province of Lecco, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. The company specialises in partition and wall systems for workplaces, including glass partition walls, wooden walls, operable and movable partitions, acoustic booths and pods, storage units, conference tables, workstations and lounge seating. Its work sits firmly in the contract and corporate-interiors segment rather than in residential furnishing. The company traces its founding to 1958 in the Lecco area, a district with a long tradition of woodworking and furniture production. From its origins, Citterio combined traditional wood craftsmanship with industrial manufacturing processes, a pairing that remains central to how its products are made. Over the following decades the company developed a focus on acoustic comfort within the workplace, an emphasis that came to define much of its catalogue. A notable milestone arrived in 2010, when Citterio introduced its first C_SS acoustic meeting booth, opening a product line dedicated to enclosed acoustic spaces within open-plan offices. Citterio is part of the Molteni Group, one of the largest Italian furniture industrial groups, which also includes Molteni&C, Dada and Unifor. Within that group, Citterio operates as the specialist for office partitioning and office furniture systems. Its factory in Sirone, located near Lake Lecco, houses the company's executive, technical and commercial offices, a showroom, and the production units where wood and aluminium are processed. Manufacturing is organised around a flexible production system that allows highly customised items to be produced within short timeframes, which the company cites as a factor in its position as a European reference point for office wall partitions. The product catalogue is organised into recognisable systems. Vision is a partition wall with high soundproofing performance, available in a double-glazed glass version without structural uprights and in a solid version with an aluminium and steel structure, both 66 mm thick, with door options in glass or wood. Wood_Wall is a partition system in which wood, typically solid oak at a thickness of around 105 mm, is the primary material, combining natural timber with transparent glass to improve sound absorption while integrating with surrounding interiors. Basic is a modular office partition wall, while Programma 3 is a modular system of storage walls that can be integrated into any of Citterio's partition systems. The acoustic range, including the C_SS booths and the CSS_VILLAGE modular acoustic boxes, addresses the need for quiet, enclosed spaces in open-plan workplaces. Citterio's products are specified primarily for corporate offices, headquarters fit-outs and contract interiors, and the company supplies both the Italian and international markets. Its systems are distributed through a network of authorised dealers and specialist office-furniture distributors across Europe and beyond, and are commonly found in architectural and contract product libraries used by designers and specifiers. The company emphasises sustainability in its manufacturing, describing efforts to minimise the use of virgin raw materials and to integrate circular-economy principles from the design phase onward. For directory purposes, Citterio is best understood through keywords that reflect what it actually produces: office partition walls, movable walls and operable partitions, glass partition wall systems, acoustic booths and office pods, office storage walls and contract office furniture. Its identity is that of a workplace-systems manufacturer with roots in wood and aluminium processing, rather than a maker of luxury residential furniture. The company should not be confused with the Milanese architect and designer Antonio Citterio, nor with the Italian cured-meats company that shares the Citterio name; the office-furniture manufacturer described here is the Molteni Group company headquartered in Sirone.