Billiani has been making chairs in Italy for over a hundred years collaborating with Italian and International designers. Started up in 1911 by Luigi and Delina who was the daughter of chair maker Mariano, they opened a small factory in Manzano which were ten kilometres apart separated by the borders. And this characterizes Billiani, a border crossing that was very influential, a key to design, tradition and experimentation regardless of a small or industrial scales, the products that were created overlaps between contract and residential means.