Ichendorf Milano

Ichendorf company history began back in the early years of the twentieth century in a small town near Cologne, named Quadrath-Ichendorf. There, many master-glaziers used a mix of substances, among which was silica, to give shape to objects able to meet the refined taste of that period. A stylistic code defined by precious ornaments, which had the undiscussed leading role of the collections proposed up until the fifties of the past century, when a very important change is established: to favor clean shape and purity of material. Old form and adornment were abolished in search of a renewed language of accessible, and no longer exclusive, shapes. That leads us to the creation of modern designed objects. In 1990 Ichendorf is established in Milan, creative point of convergence of artists and designers. It is a new story through which artists and designers come into contact with the very heart of the material, to combine different signs in a single poetic shape, able to encolse a continuo...