Tacchini chooses Crea Solution to digitalize development, pattern making, and cutting for upholstered furniture

An Italian excellence in furniture design

Tacchini is an Italian design company founded in 1967 by Antonio Tacchini in Seveso, in the heart of Brianza. Originally born as a woodworking workshop, the company has grown into an international brand and a reference point for Made in Italy design, while preserving its founding values: craftsmanship, continuous innovation, uncompromising quality, attention to materials, and respect for people and the environment.

Tacchini’s world lives in balance between memory and contemporaneity: design classics and new collections coexist in a constant dialogue, giving shape to recognizable, elegant, and timeless products. Sofas, daybeds, armchairs, and upholstered systems are born from continuous research into comfort, materials, and proportions.

In this context, technology must not simplify the creative process in a reductive way. It must make it more precise, more controllable, and more efficient. Especially in upholstered furniture, where shape, structure, covering, and cutting must align with no room for improvisation.

The need: bringing upholstered furniture processes into a more precise digital workflow

In the upholstered furniture sector, every product is the result of a complex technical balance. A sofa, armchair, or modular system is not simply a design object: it is a structure made of volumes, padding, coverings, seams, materials, tolerances, and construction details.

Tacchini needed to strengthen its technical and production process with tools capable of managing model digitalization, CAD design for upholstered furniture, and material cutting in a more organized way.

The challenge was clear: to preserve artisanal excellence and aesthetic control while introducing a more efficient workflow from pattern development to the cutting room.

For this reason, Tacchini chose digitalization systems, the Crea CAD suite for upholstered furniture, and a single-ply cutting system.

The solution: digitalization, CAD for upholstery, and single-ply cutting

Crea solutions make it possible to build an integrated workflow between physical models, digital models, and production.

The digitalization systems allow templates and physical models to be transferred into a digital environment, creating a more organized, secure, and easily editable technical archive. This is particularly important in upholstered furniture, where models can be numerous, layered, and connected to product, covering, or configuration variants.

The Crea CAD suite for upholstered furniture supports model management and modification, helping the technical department work with greater precision on pieces, lines, margins, developments, variants, and covering-related information.

The single-ply cutting system completes the process, enabling precise material cutting within a more controlled workflow aligned with the production needs of upholstered furniture.

From physical model to digital data

For a company like Tacchini, the pattern archive has enormous value. Each model contains technical expertise, trials, corrections, and know-how developed over time.

Digitalizing this heritage means making it stronger and more usable. Templates and models can be archived, retrieved, modified, and adapted more quickly. This reduces dispersion, duplication, and dependence on physical archives that are difficult to manage.

In practical terms, the model is no longer just an object to be stored: it becomes live technical data, accessible and reusable. Less dusty warehouse romance, more industrial control. Finally.

CAD for upholstered furniture: precision on complex shapes

Upholstered furniture requires a different type of pattern making compared to apparel. Geometries must adapt to three-dimensional volumes, elastic or rigid materials, padding, seams, tensions, and often irregular shapes.

With the Crea CAD suite, Tacchini can manage models with greater precision, work on covering parts, organize variants, and prepare data for the next stages of the process.

This allows the technical department to work in a more structured way on complex products, reducing the risk of errors and improving continuity between design, prototyping, and production.

Single-ply cutting: control, quality, and flexibility

The single-ply cutting system allows materials to be cut with precision and flexibility, making it particularly suitable for production environments where variety, quality, and control of each individual piece are essential.

In upholstered furniture, this technology makes it possible to handle different materials and coverings while maintaining high cutting quality and reducing manual steps.

For Tacchini, this means connecting CAD work more directly to the production phase, improving consistency between the digital model and the cut piece.

The benefits for Tacchini

By introducing digitalization systems, the CAD suite for upholstered furniture, and the single-ply cutting system, Tacchini strengthens its technical and production workflow.

The main benefits include:

  • digitalization of templates and physical models;
  • creation of a more organized and secure technical archive;
  • more precise management of upholstery models;
  • greater continuity between development, pattern making, and cutting;
  • reduction of manual steps;
  • better control of product variants;
  • greater precision in preparing coverings;
  • more controlled material cutting;
  • support for final product quality;
  • greater efficiency in managing complex products.

Conclusion

Tacchini’s choice confirms the value of Crea solutions in the high-end upholstered furniture sector.

For a brand that has built its identity on design, craftsmanship, and material quality, digitalizing the process does not mean altering the product’s essence. It means protecting know-how, reducing inefficiencies, and bringing greater precision to the most delicate stages of production.

Tacchini chose digitalization systems, the Crea CAD suite for upholstered furniture, and single-ply cutting to transform the complexity of upholstered design into a more precise, integrated, and controllable workflow.