MABEF is a company born in 1948. It's, therefore, almost 60 years that MABEF produces and sells wooden articles for artists. This long permanence in the market is due to the fairness that has always characterized MABEF's offer, made up of valid products that answer, at their best, to needs of solidity, functionality and duration.

In addition, the brand loyalty of consumers during the time, made a significant contribution to the success of Mabef. Anybody who was satisfied with a MABEF product, will be buying again a MABEF product!

Raw material
The material used is solid Beachwood coming from certified geographical areas and from woods where reforestation is under control of local regulations and guaranteed by forestry commission (we are on the way to obtain certification). In this way, the wood used is constantly replaced. The Beachwood is extremely resistant and long-lasting and will accompany us throughout our life and over. Its beauty improves with the passing of time. It is 100% recyclable and ecological. All the wooden scraps, shavings and saw dust are collected, broken up and through a very elaborate process, transformed in "pellets", an ecological fuel, for heating all the factories and offices, which, while burning, releases carbon dioxide in quantities equal to those previously absorbed by the living plant.

Performance
MABEF easels don't have just to work, but they must work really well. Every MABEF product is designed to offer the best performance. Our easels are not over technological and sophisticated: simply they do well their work. Not by chance who designs MABEF products, has always in mind the product that would recommend to himself or to his best friend.

Sturdiness and reliability
MABEF easels know their destiny since their birth: they must be strong, solid, reliable and long-lasting. It's thanks to the respect of these values that MABEF can afford to continue to produce and sell easels for more than 50 years.

Simple use
Don't expect complicated mechanism from MABEF easels. All is studied to get the simplest and fastest working method. Also, anyone, who is not so experienced in handling the easels, can find in MABEF, a product easy to work with. All with the guarantee to always have the best performance.

Competence
MABEF produces and sells only easels and accessories for artists since its birth in 1948, without wasting its manufacturing energy in other fields.

Why this? Because MABEF wanted to specialize and concentrate its energies to do, at the best, just what knows to do. That's why the MABEF products are, since the beginning, just the following: easels, sketch box easels, palettes, sculpture trestles, wooden boxes and print racks.

Mabef Studio Easels

This range includes eleven models, ten made of oiled beech and one made of walnut-lacquered beech. Studio easels are very solid and stable and are meant for indoor use, especially by professionals; they are often used as supports in art galleries and museums. Very large canvasses can be used on the models in this range: from cm. 0-116 to cm. 0-235 in height.

Mabef Lyra Easels

We make five models of lyre easels, all made of oiled beech. Their slim, elegant shape makes them perfectly suited for use in windows displays. The "Harlequin" version, a variant of model M/20D, comes in three different colours. Easy to handle, these don't take up much room; they are used indoors with canvasses from cm. 120 to cm. 0-135.

Mabef Easel Sketch Boxes

This range consists of three oil beech models which permit the artist to keep everything needed for painting inside the easel. They are ideal for oil or water-colour painting indoors or outdoors, are highly functional and very stable. They can be used with canvasses from 0-77 to 0-87 in height.

Mabef Table Easels

This range includes six models made of oiled beech; two of them, are miniature versions, M/16 and M/21, specially designed for displaying small paintings, prints or portraits on tabletops. Models M/14 and M/17 can also be used for painting on canvasses cm. 0-60 in height.