The history of Grafiche Reggiori dates back to 1903 when, Luigi Filippo Reggiori opened a commercial lithographic workshop at the Roma Hotel Building (later the Baratelli building) on Via Labiena in Laveno. The entrepreneur was a native of Mombello, where he was born to Giovanni and Orsola Parlatini on 15 October 1878, and gained important experience as a comp.
The economic boom following World War II sustained the development of tourism in the northern Italian lakes region and Teresio seized the opportunity to transform his passion into a business enterprise.
Upon his father's death in 1949, Teresio sold the print shop to the local company Rossetti (currently known as Grafica Lavenese) and opened his new company "Fotostampa Reggiori Teresio" in 1951, while also retaining his wholesale paper and stationery business.
Teresio began marketing black and white tourism postcards that were printed by third-party print shops on cardboard treated with light-sensitive silver salts (silver bromide). Using his large personal archive of glass plate photographs, he was able to arrive at a total of 15,000 pieces by the late 1950s. read more