November 3rd, 2025
ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BRERA
Today, the Accademia di belle arti di Brera opened its doors to us and gave us the opportunity to hold a meeting with its students.
We would like to thank the institution and Prof. Roberto Semprini for their support and collaboration.
Speaker: Francesca Losi
October 28th, 2025
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MILAN
We would like to thank the Polytechnic University of Milan for hosting us and for giving us the opportunity to deliver an explanatory lecture on the contest.
We were joined by Prof. James Postell, whom we thank for his support and professionalism.
Speaker: Francesca Losi
October 21st, 2025
OPEN DAY AT TABU | Wood Design Laboratory
Today, TABU hosted the students of the Polytechnic University of Milan. They visited all the company departments and took part in a guided tour, discovering the production techniques related to colouring, jointing, and the organisation of goods and products.
We would like to thank Prof. Mariano Chernicoff for accompanying the students and for his support during the visit.
Speaker: Francesca Losi
October 13th, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF GENOA | Department of Architecture
Today, the ideas4wood contest was presented to the students of the University of Genoa, Department of Architecture.
An enthusiastic and creative classroom made up of students who convey passion for what they study.
Special thanks to Prof. Claudia Porfirione for her commitment, passion and valuable collaboration.
Speaker: Francesca Losi
Saturday, October 4th, 2025
WOOD FESTIVAL 2025 | OPEN WORKSHOPS AT TABU
On the occasion of this year’s Wood Festival, TABU opened its doors to the public with “Open Workshops at TABU”, an initiative dedicated to presenting wood as a noble raw material and to highlighting the value of Made in Italy.
The initiative was created in collaboration with, and under the patronage of, the City of Cantù, and aims to present the company’s work directly to visitors through guided tours of the production departments, where expertise, experience and research come together on a daily basis. An opportunity to observe closely the gestures, processes and knowledge that transform wood into outstanding surfaces and solutions.
The initiative involved citizens, architects and university students who took part in guided tours and training sessions, thus enjoying a new experience. Visitors were able to closely follow the various stages of processing, engaging with those who work daily with the raw material and gaining an understanding of the value of time, craftsmanship and precision that characterise artisanal know-how.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Tabu and Sherwin Williams in Trieste, Wood, Creativity and Colour Without Limits
Today, the seminar for architects organised by TABU in collaboration with Sherwin-Williams took place.
The speaker, Francesca Losi, described and illustrated, through a multisensory journey, natural veneers, dyed natural veneers, and multilaminar veneers, together with the related production processes that make the creation of these materials possible.
The seminar explores the expressive potential of wood, bringing material, finishes and colour into dialogue as design tools for contemporary architecture and interior design.
In its meetings with students and architects, TABU has a clear objective: to tell and convey the true characteristic of wood, namely its versatility, which becomes a point of great strength once it is dyed.
We presented our IDEASxWOOD Contest at the Marangoni Institute in Milan. We are glad of this collaboration and we thank the director Sergio Nava, the professors and students (present and online) for their welcome. The fourth edition has started! The competition notice is online at www.i4w.it, the delivery deadline is May 31, 2022 … we are waiting for you!
In the temple of design and architecture, which welcomes you with its solemn architecture, full of mystery and history, TABU's Ideasxwood Contest celebrates its first winners, applauded by the jury, by journalists, by guests for the event.
IDEASXWOOD is the most important contest in the world in the wood sector, and is sponsored by ADI, FederlegnoArredo and FSC® Italia: it is annual and international. Main partner of the first edition is Carpanelli.
We thank all the candidates and those present, and we meet at the next edition whose announcement will be published in June 2019!
The press release is available in pdf and can be downloaded.
For photos and more information:
TABU Communication Manager, Francesca Losi, fl@tabu.it, +39 031 714493
1° Prize Professionals: CITY VIBES, Federica Citterio and Williams Pompei (LC, PU)
For the figuratively innovative proposal that enhances the technical and aesthetic potential of the multilaminar technology of TABU, obtaining a texture that features remarkable graphic elegance and expressive force based on only two contrasting shades of wood species.
2° Prize Professionals: LEAF 3D, Riccardo Tomasoni (BG)
For the refined narration of the TABU ecological identity obtained by creating on a panel a graphic / naturalistic theme based on the delicate texture of the vegetable veins of a leaf, turned into three-dimensional patterns thanks to the Groovy technology.
3° Prize Professionals: TEXTOUR CITIES - INTRECCI DI CITTA’, Maria Gelvi and Rosalba di Maio (NA)
For the virtuous exaltation of the inlay technology obtained through textures derived from refined procedures of graphic and chromatic abstraction starting from the planimetries of famous cities.
Special mentions
WOODEN MOVIES, Stefano Angelo Elli (CO)
For the conceptual originality of the creative inspiration that generates a chromatic palette expressed in thin vertical stripes starting from colours taken from photographic sequences of famous movies, obtaining at the end geometries and fascinating chromatic spectra in inlaid wood
FLARE, Luca Tornaghi (CO)
For the elegant and classical approach to continuous modular texturization obtained with the technique of inlay in different shades of natural wood species
1° PRIZE Students: TONDO TONDO, Nicola da Dalto (Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Corso di Design del Prodotto Industriale)
For the simple and refined modular composition of squares and circles, highlighted by contrasting shades of the same veneer to obtain a three-dimensional surface effect
2° PRIZE Students: INCASTRI, Stefano Bertolini (Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Corso di Decorazione)
For the smart axonometric interweaving of geometric figures with three-dimensional chiaroscuro effects that enhance the figurative possibilities of the technique of inlay reinterpreted in a modern way
3° PRIZE Students: ORO NERO - Francesco Roversi, Greta Cappellini, Alessia Marchesi, (Politecnico di Milano, Scuola del design)
For the harmonious combination of different polygonal figures where the apparent randomness of the shapes is reduced to a complex compatibility in which the bright colours of wood are enhanced
Special mentions
WAI - Beatrice Milanesi, Martina Grassi, Alice Carrera, Marco Petazzoni (Politecnico di Milano, Corso di Design del Prodotto)
For the allusive and elegant composition of concentric circles that recalls the natural growth rings of sawn trunks transformed into decorative maxi motif milled on a uniform wood species
HIVE WAVE - Andrea Mastroianni, Nicholas Berto, Niccolò Puglisi (Politecnico di Milano, Design del Prodotto Industriale)
For the refined three-dimensional decorative effect obtained by composing inlays of wood of different colours and sizes composed on a hexagonal honeycomb base, thus creating a surprising chiaroscuro that gives the surface an undulating effect.
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