Since 1993, Caleido has pursued a new and authentic vision of warmth, designing and manufacturing radiators and towel warmers that are cutting-edge in terms of aesthetics and technology.
Throughout its thirty years of history, Caleido has become a true Italian manufacturing excellence, inspired by the art of sculpture from which products expressing functionality and design take shape. Caleido radiators from a metal core, apparently hard and cold, manage to transform themselves into a living and multiform material capable of releasing heat. Danilo Rossetti, founder together with his brothers and CEO, has chosen to bring to design the extraordinary expertise in metalworking that characterises the Brescia district. Ancient skills and continuous innovation are the hallmark of Caleido.
From the very beginning, the company’s history has been marked by fruitful collaborations with the world of design: as early as 2004, thanks to an idea of Danilo Rossetti, the company involved a designer for the first time to create new radiators. James Di Marco designed several models with a refined design and full of personality such as River, Stone and Air, which are still present and appreciated today in the Caleido catalogue. From then on, collaborations with designers became a strategic and distinctive element of Caleido.
In 2011 Karim Rashid created the first Caleido art radiator, using the surface of the radiator like the canvas of a painting and taking this object into new territories of experimentation characterised by a free and powerful use of colour, capable of becoming a source of inspiration for designers and interior designers.
In 2017 Giuseppe Bavuso revolutionised the extrusion process. The result is an exponential multiplication of aesthetic possibilities, both in terms of shapes and dimensions. This was followed with great success by Alessandro Canepa and Francesco Lucchese up to the most recent collaborations with Marco Piva, who won if Design Award with his Parenthesis, Gabriele and Oscar Buratti, authors of best sellers such as 100 Righe 1000 Righe, Massimo Iosa Ghini, in turn winner with Brasilia of Archiproducts Design Award 2022, and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, author of Raysun and Traccia and bearer of a strongly inspirational and international aesthetic dimension.
In the history of Caleido, creative talent and technical ability have generated an added value out of the ordinary and have enabled the radiant object to be transformed into a charismatic object-sculpture, capable of marking the personality of the space. Alongside aesthetic research, Caleido seeks solutions for sustainable design, choosing mainly recyclable materials at the end of their life and favouring projects capable of maximising the thermal yield of each system.
In 2023, the year in which Brescia and Bergamo become Italian cultural capitals, Caleido celebrates three decades of development in metalworking, accomplished by shaping aluminium, cast iron, copper and brass into the most diverse forms to meet the needs of contemporary design. The future is under the banner of sustainability, with major investments to make the Caleido factory energy autonomous and circular. The conviction is that the aesthetic approach to the radiator object chosen by Caleido will be increasingly central and that this element will be a decisive element for the interior, for the residential environment as in contract contexts, in the bathroom space as in any other area.
