Resource Furniture Celebrates Its Roots with Clei’s 60th Anniversary

Furniture World News Desk on 10/25/2023

LGM wall bed today.

Resource Furniture celebrates the 60th anniversary of Clei S.r.l., the Italian furniture pioneer since 1963, known best for its innovative transforming designs, including patented wall bed mechanisms. After discovering the brand in 2007, Resource Furniture became the exclusive distributor of Clei’s transforming furniture solutions.

“Clei has redefined Resource Furniture,” shared Steve Spett, Co-Founder of Resource Furniture and Head of the Contract Division. “We set out in 2000 to found a furniture company that would supply top-of-the-line European pieces that exhibited exceptional design and functionality, but Clei’s furniture solutions made us synonymous with transformable solutions for modern living. We are proud to be a part of Clei’s long history of quality, sustainability, and innovation.”  

At the time of its founding, Clei’s goal was to reinvent the time-tested transforming furniture concept of the “Murphy bed” and update it for the modern home. Using upgraded, top-quality engineering and mechanisms, Clei took the Murphy bed’s space-saving and stylistic potential and created a luxurious, sustainable solution that lasts a lifetime. With the original intention of creating a resource library for the trade of European furniture designs, Resource Furniture found its niche in the world of luxury multifunctional design through its partnership with Clei – and at a perfect time. The financial crisis of 2008 made buying and selling homes nearly impossible for thousands of Americans, meaning families had to make do with their existing spaces, even as their households grew. Resource Furniture was uniquely positioned to offer a solution that would enable homeowners to maximize space in their existing homes, leading to its exclusive partnership with Clei in 2008. 

Today, Resource Furniture and Clei continue to innovate in step, with the latest launch a reinvention of Clei’s original wall bed, the LGM – which now is customizable with a TV monitor integration, fold-down and removable 4-seat table attachment, and seamless LED lighting. As Clei evolves its line of wall beds, Resource Furniture will bring its breakthroughs to this side of the Atlantic.

To learn more about Resource Furniture, keep up with the company’s latest product launches and news by following them on Instagram @resourcefurniture, Twitter @resourcfurnitur, and LinkedIn.

About Resource Furniture
 Since 2000, Resource Furniture has defined multi-functional design. It specializes in transforming, multi-purpose, and space-maximizing furniture that solves some of the most common and intimately felt problems in the home — limited room for a family to grow, a lack of storage, no space to entertain, or work from home, and a need for greater functionality overall. Resource Furniture carefully selects, imports, and distributes innovative furniture from the finest European manufacturers, including its world-renowned line of transforming wall beds designed and made in Italy by Clei, S.r.l. These transforming furniture systems do more than maximize square footage; they unfold all of the possibilities of your space. Each of the wall beds, transforming tables, seating, and storage solutions offer unmatched flexibility, aesthetic beauty, and longevity — and all with minimal environmental impact.