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ceramic hardens, we grind it and directly print the customer’s individual picture onto the frame, ensuring excellent quality thanks to UV printing,” he explains. Every single step is exclusively done by hand so that the picture frame is 100% hand-made and individual. The combination results in a beautiful Swiss-made shabby chic style. No two frames are the same due to individual colours and wood structures. nelloFACTORY uses UV-LED direct printing, which prints ink directly onto the material. It dries with ultraviolet light so that the object immediately dries and stays dust-free.“We can print directly onto various materials, such as metal, wood, glass or plastic in A2 format and up to a thickness of 150mm with our flatbed printer,” de Gasperi outlines. This creates a lot of potential for things like a relief print with a 3D or gloss effect.
products so that old residential houses, company buildings and barns are reborn as picture frames.“We believe that old wood shouldn’t simply be binned and that’s why we seek to make it into beautiful home accessories,” Stephan de Gasperi says. “We cut the wood to the desired size and agglutinate it. We sand and treat the old wood so that it looks its best before we fill the frames with ceramic material. When the
Besides offering their frames in ten different sizes and forms, nelloFACTORY also boast exceptional customer service. Going the extra mile for realising every customer’s wish, nelloFACTORY helps clients to accessorise entire walls with their PANNELLO frames. One can simply email the measurements of their own wall to Stephan de Gasperi and he will design an individual PANNELLO wall proposal for each client. “I try to fill the whole wall with several different frame sizes so that the wall becomes a real eye-catcher. Today, many people are already overwhelmed by selecting photos for their walls because of the sheer volumes of photos taken by digital cameras. That’s why we also offer our help when it comes to photo selection. We try to find the best and most suitable pictures for a customer’s wall or picture frame,”he continues. His wife, Claudia Mamone, is a professional photographer and has masses of professional experience when it comes to choosing the ideal pictures for a display.
profession wasn’t leaving him fulfilled. Thus, he took some leave from the bank and went travelling with his family for ten weeks.“We got inspired during our travels after seeing similar products. And even while travelling, we decided how we could implement this idea and knew that we wanted to choose this path. I then quit my old job and started to puzzle over the product until I found the right ‘ingredients’ and procedures for the production of PANNELLO,” he recalls. A new interesting product is in the pipeline, which will soon be available for online purchase. The PANNELLO with children’s book illustrations represents a true unicum. “The creative illustrations will be painted directly onto the PANNELLO,”Stephan de Gasperi explains. Also available will be print versions, which can be bought directly in the online shop. A further novelty at nelloFACTORY will be their photo frames from South Africa, produced with the help of LUNA Designs. These frames differ in colour as well as form, and are truly individual items. Finished images from different photographers alongside frames will soon be on offer too. www.nellofactory.ch
Mian image: PANNELLO Left: PANNELLO (top & 2nd) LUNA Design frame (3rd & 4th) Below: Children’s book illustration by Sabine Marie Körfgen
The Swiss couple came up with the idea of nelloFACTORY in 2013. Having previously worked as a team leader at a leading bank, Stephan de Gasperi soon realised that the
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