What happens when companies allow space for female talent to express themselves freely?

What do companies become when women are given the opportunity to showcase not only their skills but also their human and character traits?

What milestones can Italian companies achieve when they combine creative genius and productive excellence with the powerful drive of strength, courage, experimentation, and human, social, and mental openness that many women inherently possess?

Let's find out with A Coffee in the Living Room: Stories of Women in Excellent Companies, the talk organized by Sofable by Mantellassi in collaboration with Caffè Trucillo during the Fuorisalone, on Thursday, April 18, with two sessions: at 12:00 and at 18:00.

"What could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?" The novelist Anthony Trollope wrote already in 1855, and in our opinion, he was right. Sofable by Mantellassi has therefore come up with the idea of ​​combining two extraordinary Italian excellences: design and coffee. In the Milanese living room of the historic Tuscan artisan company located at Viale Premuda 19, specializing in high-quality sofas and furnishings, there will be a meeting of business storytelling featuring two exceptional women: Roberta Mantellassi and Fausta Colosimo.

The lives of Roberta and Fausta are two of the 14 female business stories collected in the books The Women's Mark" and "In the Name of Women from the Rubbettino Editore series The Adventure of Experience.

A Coffee in the Living Room: Stories of Women in Excellent Companies will be an opportunity to engage in a pleasant and comfortable conversation with Roberta and Fausta and the writers Adriano Moraglio and Silvia Lessona, authors of the two volumes, while sipping a good coffee.

Roberta and Fausta have similar yet very different stories; they come from two regions with very rich cultures and are involved in different products. But they share the merit of having taken the brands of their companies to the world, making them two cases of Italian excellence esteemed by the international public. And today, they stand by their children to support them in ushering the companies into a new era, with new projects that speak of craftsmanship and excellence in a contemporary and cosmopolitan language.

Roberta continues and updates, with her sons Carlo, Giulio, and Marco, the know-how of the Mantellassi1926 company, which boasts over 90 years of experience in luxury style. Sofable is the new brand of the Mantellassi family, born to offer a collection of sofas and furnishings made with artisan mastery. This new brand is inspired by the tradition of excellence of the family business, enriching it with a contemporary and accessible vision of interior design. Created to meet the needs of a young and informed audience, Sofable combines design, comfort, and quality without compromise, keeping alive the commitment to the excellence of Italian design. With Sofable, Mantellassi aims to bring new generations closer to the art of quality furnishing, offering solutions that are both innovative and respectful of a long artisan heritage.

Fausta is the Head of International Markets at Caffè Trucillo, a family-owned roasting company born in Salerno, now in its third generation and present in the best venues in over 40 countries worldwide, where it exports 70% of its production. Caffè Trucillo has just presented with great success at Taste Florence, the Pitti Immagine salon dedicated to the food & beverage sector, its Ecstatic Jar, a coffee jar covered in artisanal fabric with the warm colors of the countries of origin of the beans containing a precious single origin, i.e., a coffee from a single plantation, personally selected by Antonia Trucillo, Fausta's daughter and one of Italy's leading experts in green coffee. Throughout the duration of the Fuorisalone, the Sofable flagship store will host the Ecstatic Jar of Caffè Trucillo on display, still a real rarity waiting to be discovered.

We look forward to seeing you!