When Pietro and Manuel founded Izquierdo & Signorini in 1923, they were chasing a dream with a project called “company.” Now, with 86 years of experience in the taps and fittings sector, applying know how that has evolved, season after season, to match the needs of an equally evolutionary market and to offer unequalled capability for high-quality production, Mauro, heir of the Signorini family and now head of the company, continues to transform this dream into an international market presence that unites project and product savvy with environmental, design, and quality expertise. The company’s mission over the course of 9 decades has always been clear: to anticipate market demands with products offering 360° structural and aesthetic solutions in line with trends and with the transformations that have inevitably taken place in the world and in everyone’s daily life. The company’s catalogues, from 1923 to today, are the answer.

On 21 February 1923, Manuel Izquierdo and Pietro Signorini stood before the Florentine notary Dr. Gargani to found the ordinary partnership company Izquierdo e Signorini. The company purpose? To produce and market “Various fittings for plumbing thermal health and similar”. When, in the 1930s, renewed urban expansion automatically generated a sharp upturn in demand for sanitary facilities, the company was ready. With a new name, S.P.E.C. Signorini Pietro & C., they revised their catalogue, eliminating obsolete articles in favor of water-handling groups for tubs and washbasins, bidets and toilets. When the founders’ sons joined the company in 1930, they built a new factory, a modern structure where Signorini products became more competitive - in form, function, and technology.
Even the difficulties that arose during the World War II were quickly overcome in the years of Italy’s Reconstruction; so much so that in 1949 the ordinary partnership was dissolved and in its place a new joint-stock company, Pietro Signorini & Figli, was founded. This was the first move in a strong innovative effort that has continued unabated over the years. The founder, Pietro, died in 1955, but his sons Vezio and Adolfo gave new stimulus to company activity, starting with construction of new production facility: large, modern, and fully in step with the times, complete with cafeteria, services, parking facilities, dedicated production areas, warehouses, a logistics department, new technologies, and, consequently, new product quality. Expansion and the search for total quality continued into the 60s and 70s with innovations in procedures, technologies, and strategies, and the company established their position in a rapidly-expanding market. They gradually introduced design contents, alternative technologies, and new materials to respond to the demands of a market that was undergoing profound change, to a new and different conception of the bathroom, and to the emergence of an informed, demanding consumer. In the 80s and 90s, when role of the bathroom changed from a utility to a cult and taps and fittings took their rightful place as trendy, decorator items, production was revolutionized to make way for design and processing aligned with the new lifestyles and new consumer needs. Full implementation of design, technology, research, and experimentation now offers a product that is original, well-built, durable, and - once again - capable of providing a valid response to current market demands.
The production facility, newly renovated in 2006, manages the entire production cycle: confirmation, if such were needed, of the worldwide standing enjoyed by Made in Italy products. Leading this intuitive, versatile company is Mauro Del Conte, Vezio Signorini’s nephew. When he joined the company in 1980, he picked up old Pietro’s torch and now carries it proudly as testimony to a dream begun eighty-six years ago.