CINI&NILS

Cini&Nils was established in 1969 when two designers felt the need to make their designs directly available to the market. When Mario Melocchi teamed up with the architect and designer Franco Bettonica to found the company, the duo started out by marketing a range of products, many of which have since been bought by the New York MoMA, including the Bar, Tabletop and Desktop collections, the swivel Magazine Stand, the Cubobar and the Game Table.

In October 2022, Cini&Nils was acquired by Lombardo, marking a new phase of significant relaunch and continuing to consolidate its position as a benchmark in the field of high-end decorative and technical lighting. The name Cini&Nils combines Cini, evocative of Venetian doges to confer a bourgeois elegance, with Nils, which is a nod to Scandinavian design, minimalism, and harmony, thus reflecting the brand’s uniqueness in merging Italian creativity with Nordic precision