ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA
MALL OF THE EMIRATES BOUTIQUE
iDEA&Associates has designed and engineered, for the main contractor Tensoforma, the front shop for Emegenegildo Zegna’s Mall of the Emirates shop. The brief from the client was to have a luxurious entrance made of natural stone and metal but it should be also as much “transparent” as possible.
iDEA&Associates provided a solution for with a light structure integrated in the design in order to not be visible from the customer perspective. The structure is lightweight but strong enough to carry 2 huge glasses of 3.4m x 4,5m.
HISTORY AND TRADITION OF
ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA
As a family business, Ermenegildo Zegna goes back to the second half of the 19th century. Angelo Zegna a watchmaker by trade, started weaving wool from four looms. Of his ten children it was the last, Ermenegildo born in 1892, who took over what was to become one of Italy’s best known and most dynamic family businesses.
It was the young entrepreneur; Ermenegildo aged 18 that founded the Lanificio Zegna in 1910, in Trivero, in the Alpine foothills near Biella. Ermenegildo began to produce fabrics using four looms. In his own words, these fabrics had to be “the most beautiful in the world.” Today, Zegna fabrics are still one of Italy’s most acclaimed exports, identified internationally by a red seal.
FRONT SHOP
DESIGN & ENGINEERING
