Barovero Mobili Torino Biography
Michele Barovero, immediately after the end of the Second World War in 1945, founded the Barovero Furniture Industry. In the small factory located in via Belfiore, only three workers work, but in a short time the number grows to thirty. Due to the increase in the volume of work, the need arose to expand the spaces, so Barovero purchased a space in via Belfiore on the corner with via Valperga Caluso and transformed it into an exhibition and commercial space. Subsequently, thanks to various subsequent expansions, the structure came to have twenty-seven windows.
Barovero's passion for furniture production and innovation pushes him to improve his education and travel mainly to the northern regions of Europe, in search of more modern and effective solutions and production methods. In 1960, he patented Selex, a modular system with metal supports and wooden shelving, which simplified production and made finished products cheaper. These achieve growing public success.
Thanks to the resulting production growth, in 1961 Barovero inaugurated a factory in Grugliasco with around 200 workers. However, starting from the eighties, the Barovero furniture industry began a slow decline: in 1982 the Grugliasco factory closed and in 1987, also the shop in via Belfiore, which represented a point of attraction for the neighborhood and for the entire city.
