Mabef
MABEF has travelled down a path toward excellence, and for the past 60 years it has
supported, with innate ability and passion, all those who make art.
Since 1948, the company has been making wooden painters’ easels with creativity and energy, and today it still operates with the same respect, love, expertise and care exhibited by the company’s founder, Albino Bruno Mariotto.
A skilful restorer, cabinetmaker and painting aficionado, he decided to embark on this
journey with his wife Rita; together, in the first years of the post-war period. They dedicated their time and energy to the artisan production of painters’ easels, and started their business in Ispra, a small city on the western shore of Lake Maggiore.
The name of MABEF comes from the founder’s initials, Mariotto Albino Bruno e Figli, whose children and grandchildren followed in his footsteps. Today, Laura still handles the company’s commercial and marketing aspect as well as the development of the MABEF brand; Sandro deals with the logistics and Paolo with the production part.
The brand’s guarantee derives from a constant and passionate work, which draws strength from the artisan experience and takes advantage of new technological know-how, design and constant focus on quality in order to guarantee a unique product intended to last a lifetime.
The ingenious technical solutions and accurately selected raw materials ensure sturdiness in time. In fact, MABEF uses only high-quality solid beechwood that comes from controlled areas where prompt reforestation is ensured (in 2004 MABEF obtained the FSC certification, www.fsc.org). This type of wood is extremely resistant and its beauty increases in time, also thanks to a finish with natural oils, which keep the raw material “alive”. MABEF easels are simple to use, and they allow the artistic work to be set up quickly and easily. They are easy to assemble because they are designed as a kit, and they are also sturdy and reliable, equipped with an international lifetime guarantee.
In recent years, MABEF has paid special attention to ecological and environmental problems, and it has decided to reconvert all its production scrap by recycling it 100%. As a matter of fact, through a complex crushing procedure, wood shavings are turned into pellets, an environmentally friendly fuel which is used to heat the entire company.
MABEF has demonstrated throughout its historical entrepreneurial journey to know how to comply with important teachings. It has relied upon its history, experience and human skills in order to always renew itself, and thanks to these choices it can still be considered to this day a work-in-progress, with a constant tendency toward innovation and the improvement of its products. With this drive it continues to satisfy the most demanding artists, museums, restorers, auction houses and painting aficionados.
For more information on the MABEF brand, please visit www.mabef.com
