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Marco Olivieri

Founder & CEO

Marco Olivieri founded La Mercanti in 1997 on a conviction he has never revised: an office speaks before the people in it do. The right executive desk tells a visitor about authority and attention to detail before a word is said, and it gives the person who works at it every day something to be proud of. A marketer by training and by instinct, a former Italian artillery officer and a father of four who trains calisthenics three mornings a week, he has little patience for the mediocre, least of all in a workplace. He has led La Mercanti USA LLC since 2018 and writes here about beauty, prestige and productivity at work.

ORGATEC 2026: Within Ten Feet of the Receptionist, the Relationship Has Begun

ORGATEC 2026: Within Ten Feet of the Receptionist, the Relationship Has Begun In 1966 Edward T. Hall wrote that a receptionist closer than ten feet to another person, even a stranger, will be virtually compelled to co… 27/10/2026 Trade Shows & Events

Why Women Feel Colder at the Office, and Where the Cold Actually Sits

Why Women Feel Colder at the Office, and Where the Cold Actually Sits OSHA has no regulations on office temperature and only recommends 68 to 76 °F. The studies behind ASHRAE Standard 55 found men and women pr… 19/10/2026 Workplace Productivity

America Buys Its Office Furniture Elsewhere. From Italy, It Asks for One Room

America Buys Its Office Furniture Elsewhere. From Italy, It Asks for One Room Of the requests that reach us through lamercanti.us, 93.6% are about a desk, yet Italy supplies under 3% of the wood and metal office furni… 12/10/2026 Design & Trends

Close-up of the Las Mobili Sigma workstation: wood-effect top and fabric desk screen

Workstations are a fleet: buy the lifecycle, not the sticker The half-price workstation quote is in every project spreadsheet — and the catch is always the same: workstations are a fleet. Re-stacks as… 07/09/2026 Workplace Productivity

Reception desk with a backlit frosted-glass front, light oak cabinets and open shelving

Ocean, customs, white glove: the road from an Italian workshop to your office Curbside is not white glove, DDP is not a detail, and a crate built for an ocean crossing looks nothing like retail packaging. What actuall… 03/08/2026 Projects & Case Studies

Luciano Guglielmini of Humanscale speaking into a microphone at an event

Why the MarineMax CEO never asked us for a discount Brett McGill, CEO of MarineMax, furnished his Clearwater corner office from Italy and came back over six years and five orders. The real le… 28/07/2026 Projects & Case Studies

Paying from the US: cards, ACH, wire — and now stablecoins

Paying from the US: cards, ACH, wire — and now stablecoins A growing number of American companies hold working capital in stablecoins — and when they furnish an office, every supplier wants a wire.… 12/05/2026 Projects & Case Studies

Las Mobili Fil Rouge workstation with dark wood top, gray fabric screen and mesh task chair

Milan design week, worked like the trade: Salone and Fuorisalone Eight time zones, three days on the ground — and most American visitors come home with a camera roll they could have downloaded. How to wor… 24/03/2026 Trade Shows & Events

Web Summit 2025

Web Summit 2025: 6 workplace signals every US office designer needs to act on — before 2026 makes them obvious Six ROI-backed signals from Web Summit Lisbon that will reshape US offices in 2026 — from AI-driven cognitive load to hybrid attendance pat… 26/11/2025 Trade Shows & Events