Natevo

Natevo is a Milan-based spinoff brand of Flou, the Italian manufacturing company that revolutionized sleep culture by creating the first textile bed with removable covers. That same innovative spirit was reprised in 2013 when Flou launched Natevo, the first company in Italy to design, produce, and market a range of furnishings and accessories with integrated and autonomous LED light fittings. The self-illuminating pieces include tables, chairs, bookcases, dressers, makeup vanities, desks, mirrors, lamps, clothing racks, storage units, and more.

Designed by creatives from a range of disciplines, Natevo furniture combines quality, experience, and passion for a new lifestyle based on greater environmental awareness. Natevo products exude understated luxury thanks to masterfully crafted details and the use of precious materials. All items feature lighting that can be controlled via on/off switches or foot pedals; remote controls; and Casambi, an exclusive smart-lighting system that connects to a smartphone or tablet. Thanks to their high performance and considerable energy savings, Natevo furniture pieces are the ideal additions for homes, hotels, and public settings.

Natevo’s small but powerful range of products is characterized by impeccable design and an innate ability to create warm, welcoming ambiances. For Natevo, the home is a lived-in space meant to be embellished through a careful, deliberate choice of furniture and accessories that express a personal aesthetic and lifestyle. Its pieces represent a new interpretation of light as it relates to home design. The result is a harmonious style that successfully blends the past with the future, the old with the new, and tradition with innovation.

Like its parent company, Flou, high ethical values and social and environmental responsibility are embedded into Natevo’s DNA. Natevo pieces are designed to reduce the energy costs of existing homes and buildings and offer economic and ecological benefits to new builds since they sidestep the need for installing light points and electrical circuits in the walls. In restructuring projects, they eliminate the need for demolition, as the pieces of furniture simply need to be positioned where light is required.

Designers

One of the first designers to be inspired by the idea of Natevo was esteemed Milan-based architect and designer Matteo Nunziati, who helped develop the technology to calibrate the light emitted by furniture in various rooms. His first pieces for Natevo were part of his Continuum Collection, a Bauhaus-inspired range of modular storage units, bookcases, TV units, home theaters, coffee tables, desks, and mirrors equipped with built-in LED lighting. Once produced, Nunziati experimented with his pieces’ validity by furnishing an apartment in Milan’s futuristic residential complex, CityLife, which was designed by the late, great architect Zaha Hadid. Offered in a variety of finishes and accessories, Continuum remains one of the brand’s most expansive collections to this day.

In addition to his Continuum series, Nunziati has designed several other pieces for Natevo, including the 1930s-inspired Solida Collection (which includes storage units and tables), Tekton Tables and Armchairs, the Babele Bookcase, and the Saturno Mirror. Other Natevo designers include:

• father-and-son Mustafa and Emre Toner of Istanbul-based Toner Architects (Kara Collection)
• Carlo Colombo (CCLight Bookcase, CCCube Storage Units, Amal Lamp, and Softwing Lamp)
• Pinuccio Borgonovo (Peak Mirror/Console, Ski Clothes Stand, and Briscola Chair)
• Marcello Zilani (Twist & Light Cabinet)
• Stefano Bigi (Ashaa Lamp)
• Volodymyr Karalyus (Balloon Table)

Materials

In keeping with the standards of its parent company, Flou, Natevo sources only the finest quality materials for its furniture. Finishes include heat-structured finishes, wood (coffee-brown oak, matte ebony, and Canaletto Rialto walnut), cement, lacquered finishes, marble, hide, metal, and glass.

“Natevo epitomize the continuity of research that combines quality, experience, and passion for a new lifestyle based on greater awareness for the environment.”