For over fifty years, customers of Albini&Fontanot have been able to expect products of renowned quality, elegant beauty and versatile adaptability.
Today, after many years of studies and planning tests, the Rimini-based company is bringing to market an innovative stair protected by an international invention patent. This is an auspicious debut for the Techne staircase, the first example of a new functional design based on new technology and, above all, a new material.
Albini&Fontanot has given a new image to plastic. In fact, this is the first time that an entire staircase has been created from only three components, using injection moulding technology. It’s truly a global revolution in staircase design! The final frontier of plastic has therefore been crossed. The staircase presented by Albini&Fontanot becomes a pervasive furnishing element in its own right, which permits the creativity of imaginative interior designers to give free rein to extraordinary projects. The Techne staircase is suitable for both indoor and outdoor environments, from industrial warehouses to sophisticated architectural home structures. The treads of the stairs are non-slip and the mixture of different polymers permits a wide variety of colours and solutions. This is therefore a staircase that can be adapted to the customer’s requirements to provide complete customer satisfaction and contribute to creating an environment with a strongly expressive character.
Like all products from the company Albini&Fontanot, this staircase also complies with the strictest regulations of the global marketplace. It respects the safety standards, the environment and the recyclability of its materials at the time of disposal.
Techne, a new jewel in the crown of a company that has once again succeeded in meeting an important goal: exerting the maximum effort to give the customer the best possible product.
The meaning of Techne.
The semantic origin of the Greek word “techne”, currently translated as “art”, is much broader than its Italian translation, as can be seen from the corresponding entry in the Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek.
Techne includes our art, our technology, our capability, manual or otherwise, to do something that is carried out according to a rule. It is therefore not a mere execution of the projects of others, which the executor cannot share or even understand completely, nor is it creativity free of rules.
Artists are also technicians and technicians are also artists, because their actions, in both cases, involve know-how or a method; namely, their actions involve both practical and theoretical knowledge at the same time, and a conscious participation in what is being done. And this applies to intellectual work as it does to manual labour: in the Greek “techne”, the architect, the engineer and the master mason participated in their own crafts.
G. Cambiano – “Platone e le tecniche” (Plato and the Techniques).