Guzzini was born in 1912, when Enrico Guzzini set about re-launching an ancient craft – producing elegant ox horn items. Subsequently, around 1938, a new generation of Guzzini’s started a small revolution by manufacturing accessories for the kitchen using Plexiglas. With the introduction of moulded acrylics at the start of the 1960s, Raimondo Guzzini's contemporary intuition sought to give the company a more open approach to business by bringing in the creative concepts of some of the best minds in design, starting with Luigi Massoni. With the new process of gas-assisted injection in the 1990s, to current research on new plastic materials and their infinite potential, cleverly combining them with futuristic acrylics or more classical traditional materials, such as porcelain, glass, steel and wood. After nearly a century, the main drive behind this development still comes from a team of managers that share the same passion for innovation, as well as the same surname: Guzzini.
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