Albini & Fontanot S.P.A.

Company Description

Fontanot has been manufacturing spiral staircase and open staircases for over forty years, offering innovative products to satisfy every need of customers and designers.
Fontanot has marked out the road of innovation and design for the staircase world.

Fontanot?s history began in 1947 in the carpentry shop of the Albini brothers. In this workshop in the centre of Rimini, the Albini craftsmen worked wood and made stepladders with passion and an inimitable personal style.
In order to adapt to a market oriented towards mass production, they felt the need to industrialize staircase production, yet keeping the style of the products unaltered. The turning point came when Enzo Fontanot, the current president, joined the company giving life to Albini & Fontanot, the first company to set the objective of transforming a craftsman?s way of making spiral and open staircases into an industrial process. The importance of the design and the beauty of the shapes instantly became the company?s strength and it would over the years come to stand out for the elegance and furnishing potential of its products.

1980-1990: The concept of industrialized staircases was born
In the ?80s the Albini & Fontanot brand became famous all over the world for having realised an industrial process for the construction of spiral and open staircases. Research and development of innovative solutions that can change the way of looking at staircases lies at the heart of all the company?s activities. In 1982 Albini & Fontanot launched the Xnodo model, the first spiral staircase featuring the revolutionary horizontal and vertical structure adjustment system. Constructed of steel and polyurethane, a material never before used in the sector, marked a historical turning point in staircase manufacture thanks to the adjustment mechanism invented by Albini & Fontanot.