Monitillo Marmi

Monitillo Marmi was founded in Altamura - Province of Bari - in 1980. After working for 19 years in some of the workshops in his town, Francesco Monitillo starts to treat marble, granite and all kinds of stones in his own workshop. In a short time Francesco gains the appreciation of his customers owing to his great mastery in enhancing the natural qualities of each material he works on. The firm grows and Francesco Monitillo invests in personnel and technology rapidly increasing the quality of his manufactures and broadening the market to the surrounding territories. Monitillo Marmi tries to find new creative solutions offering to its customers something more than industrial products or the simple selling of marble slabs as other firms usually do. Francesco prefers to propose artistic handicraft obtained through research, innovation, care for details: the material is transformed into a creative idea. Architectural and engineering consulting offices, interior designers come into contact with the firm becoming reliable partners and creating original and bold solutions. In the course of time Francesco is supported by his young children Piero, Lilla and Michele who - easily acknowledging the masterly and productive culture of their father – do their best to promote even further the peculiar way of manufacturing quality products which in the meantime are appreciated also abroad. With the increase in investments and human resources, numerical analysis products are added to the manual ones which permits the transformation of an abstract idea into an advanced serial production ad infinitum. Therefore the firm starts the serial production “Percorsi di Pietra” exhibited in the new showroom located in the historical center of Altamura: baths, washbasins, bio fireplaces and furnishing accessories start to take new shapes being inspired by the smooth lines of the Murgia landscape linked with the traditions of the numerous peoples who settled in this territory without interruption. Afterwards ‘Monitillo Marmi’ launches the new line “Exa”, a wall illuminated, or a lamp-wall, with a travertine chest and an onyx heart forming a splendid body which sends out a warm brightness. The light filters through a texture of thin veins and plastic materials capable of bringing out all that moves around. The firm is present with its professional support in numerous building sites and private houses, proposing a model based on the scrupulous care for details and the creation of personalized solutions which are never mindless. The Monitillos are well-known for the carefulness they show in checking new orders coming from firms of builders, professionals and private people: it’s better to meet the client or his consultant again and again than manufacturing a product which is far from the original creative idea. This is the way in which the concept is transformed into an executive project that, together with an accurate selection and control of the raw material, constitutes the basis of a faultless work. In addition the project is tested in the workshop in the client’s presence; the various parts of the project are assembled to verify its real integrity and coherence and then the product is fitted, accompanied by a program of maintenance work provided by Monitillo’s personnel. The active presence of Francesco Monitillo’s children allows the company to face new challenges: the network of b2b relationships with firms and consortium are increased all over Italy; the firm attends exhibitions and is involved in bilateral meetings and workshops. It is always ready to meet professionals and to have a worthwhile collaboration with research centers and universities to improve the knowledge of new materials and the development of new manufacturing technologies. Monitillo Marmi constantly adopts new design methods for developing smart products always taking the features of the materials into consideration. New administrative and management systems are implemented under the watchful and gratified eye of Francesco who continues working for the company conscious that the generation passage has successfully been achieved. This affective harmony can be considered the key to the reading of the extraordinary success of this small but organized firm in the south of Italy. In the very next future Monitillo Marmi has to face new gambles: the adoption of product certification and the research for other markets which could really appreciate the Monitillo family’s offers.