about - Pier Luigi Frighetto

40 years of activity starting in the hard-working province of Vicenza, land of daring entrepreneurs: at the age of 21, Pier Luigi Frighetto had already started his own upholstery company and in the 1980s he was among the first to export Italian furniture to the United States. Innovator, visionary, talent scout and trend setter, in his professional life he has worked with many young designers who, also thanks to his support, have been able to emerge and still leave their mark on the world of design.

A founder of successful companies, from 2011 to 2021 he headed Black Tie, brand with which Pier Luigi Frighetto has created interior design elements of timeless elegance, which distinguish his sophisticated and refined style. Known for his meticulous attention to detail, at Black Tie Pier Luigi Frighetto has created unique furnishing accessories of the highest quality handcrafted in Italy, to satisfy the tastes and needs of a demanding and sophisticated clientele. Moscabianca is the latest brand born from the mind of Pier Luigi Frighetto: it bears the signature of over 40 years of design and experience in the production of fine furnishing elements, with avant-garde solutions that are in tune with iconic lines. A marriage of classic and modern that only the best design can express. Classically eccentric, elegantly unique, distinctive and rare: Moscabianca is a collection of objects with a strong yet discreet character. Because elegance is the harmonious ensemble of exclusive details, perfectly designed by a great chef d’orchestre. In 2023 the Moscabianca brand was sold to Pianca Spa which, with its commercial distribution, will be able to give the impetus to the development that the founder aspired to.

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Pier Luigi Frighetto is a dreamer and avant-garde. He is a recognised designer in interior design thanks to the many products he has designed, engineered, developed and sold around the world, in a professional career that spans 40 years.Over the years, the interior design elements designed by Pier Luigi Frighetto have appeared in dozens of exhibitions. His products have been selected at the Compassod’Oro twice and today they are exhibited in the most beautiful shop windows around the world.
Talent scout, with a passion for design. In his professional life, he has collaborated with many young designers who, thanks to his support, have been able to emerge as artists and still enjoy great success. The basis for the success of Pier Luigi Frighetto’s products is a talent for design and extreme attention to quality, combined with the technical knowledge of materials, production processes and industry marketing that arise from his long direct entrepreneurial experience. Founder and Designer from 2011 to 2021 of BLACK TIE, a brand with which Pier Luigi Frighetto gave life to interior design elements with his reﬁned style and timeless elegance. Known for his meticulous attention to details, in BLACK TIE Pier Luigi Frighetto has created unique furnishing accessories, of the highest manufacturing quality, handcrafted in Italy, to satisfy the tastes and needs of a sophisticated clientele, with a passion for Home Decor. RIGHETTO&partners is the project on which Pier Luigi Frighetto works today. A creative design open-network, dedicated to international architecture and interior design. A laboratory of ideas, which also serves to promote new talents, FRIGHETTO & partners creates designs solutions and furnishings and oﬀers innovative services, with customer lifestyles and needs always at the center.
Moscabianca?

“I still remember when Von Robinson, a young emerging designer at the time, chased me down the street in New York to show me a tiny armchair model. I liked the project and also his enthusiasm. We worked together and had our products displayed in storefronts around the world: it was a sign of recognition and at the same time a wonderful legacy.” “Exporting has always been my thing. I have always felt like a citizen of the world. In the late 1980s, I set up “Frighetto Americas” to facilitate distribution in the United States, before groupage services even existed. We were exporting 75% of our production.” “I have carried pen and paper with me my whole life. I started working when I was very young. At 25, I already had my own production of sofas and armchairs which I had designed myself.” “I can mention some major international designers who have collaborated with me, such as Karim Rashid, whom I brought to Italy. We met at the Vicenza station and went for lunch together. We designed an armchair on a napkin which we later presented at the Milan show. It was pink leather – something shocking at the time – a product which was later featured in more than 100 magazines in Italy and internationally…”