Glas Italia, established in 1972 in Brianza manufactures doors, wall partitions and glass furniture, supported by century-long experience of the family glass factory and driven by an inexhaustible passion for glass. Research and design combined with the most advanced technology, in collaboration with internationally renowned designers, realizing the ideas of their creative talent come true. Sophistication, originality, intrinsic and formal quality are the salient features of all Glas Italia products that are equally adhered to in home, office and contract sectors.

Inaugurated in 2011 with a project by Piero Lissoni, the Glas Italia Headquarters in Macherio occupy an area of 11.000 square meters. Glass, cement and steel feature in the architecture, designed to optimize the diffusion of natural light in the working environment.

The entrance is visually arresting: an opening in the façade to an “open-air” atrium with plants and greenery and an imposing, self-supporting staircase made of steel and glass leading to the upper floors.

The company has recently issued a short movie steeped in a nostalgic tone, shot with an aim to enhance the industrial and artisan manufacturing that leads to the creation of Glas Italia furniture. “All the invisible”, the short movie title, wants to turn into “visible the invisible” by conveying the passion that moves the company every day. The furnishing elements acquire a totally new value – ideal and rich in implications that go beyond aesthetics –, with an aim to open a privileged and authentic view over a production phase that is normally unknown to the majority. As a matter of fact the manufacturing of a product goes through human experimentation, the knowledge of the material and the objective pursued by every designer with their project. All this is conveyed through the neat and extremely explanatory images of the short movie by Federico Pepe, founder and art director of Le Dictateur Studio. Ancient wisdom is magnified by the film editing and music that take the viewer by hand through the discovery of an industrial reality that is often kept too hidden and distant from the collective imaginary.