IOA is a family owned company; the Delmestri family has manufactured furniture for three generations. The company was founded in Udine, Northern Italy in 1933, and was known as a leading manufacturer of contemporary seating designs. In 1978, Dario Delmestri, moved the company to the United States. There he began to manufacture his latest collection in a new, 70,000 square foot vertically integrated facility in Thomasville, NC. IOA has had the privilege to collaborate with many distinguished architects and designers including Giò Ponti, Eero Aarnio, Alvar Aalto, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Eileen Gray, Joe Colombo, Pascal Mourgue, Masayuki Kurokawa and Silvio Coppola. After years of designing and crafting award-winning healthcare furniture lines, including Neocon’s Innovation Award, the Nightingale Award and Healthcare Design’s People’s Choice Award, IOA is known as a leading manufacturer of contemporary seating designs.