Piovano rises from ashes of fire
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, May 19, 2003
Cernobbio, Italy — Tessitura Leandro Piovano staged a triumphant return to the Proposte fabric show here just a year after a fire that destroyed its plant and looms in Chieri, Italy.
The high-end specialist, which is now blended with fabric source Doryba and supplies American customers like Kravet, Greeff, Clarence House, Stroheim & Romann, F. Schumacher, is currently manufacturing in a 3,000-square-meter facility with 24 high-speed jacquard looms. The provisional arrangement is smaller than the original plant, which had about 60 looms, and also smaller than a new plant that will be built beginning in September.
The company plans to move into the new 8,000-square-meter plant by the summer of 2005, according to Jerry Newman, the mill's U.S. agent.
