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Glant’s Latest Collection: Spring 2026: The Bergamo Collection

2026 marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of GLANT and of the Glant / Bergamo love affair.

Just after the new year of 1976, Gary Glant stumbled upon a small set of samples in an agent’s office on Madison Avenue in New York. The textures in the stack were understated yet substantial, chic, and modern.

It was disclosed that they were from a twenty-year-old mill in Northern Italy. The agent shared that the samples had just arrived and he had no experience with this producer yet, and said the mill was a Faberge Egg, spotless and had great potential along with a wonderful and impressive owner. Gary was sold and made plans to visit Bergamo in the following months.

On the first day in this wonderful town of Bergamo, with its Medieval walled Upper City / CITTA ALTA, situated 50 kilometers / 30 miles east of Milano, Gary and Vicki Glant sorted through archives of textures representing articles made for clients of the mill. Each item was more handsome and exciting than the last. A first selection was made for GLANT and the rest is history.

After working together for twenty years, in the 1990s GLANT bought Texital, which had been the first Italian mill in the post war 1950s to introduce high-end Boucles and Chenilles to the international interior design world through houses like Knoll, Larsen and Brunswig.

Through the years Gary, Vicki and Adam Glant have spent a considerable part of their lives working and enjoying spectacular Bergamo. Adam’s sixth grade was spent in a non-English speaking public school in Bergamo’s Lower City while the family lived on VIA SAN GIACOMO in Bergamo’s Upper City in a converted convent overlooking the plains leading to Milano.

During the years, the Glants bought a box in Bergamo’s spectacular IL DONIZETTI Opera House, named after the famous composer, born in Bergamo, and for the enjoyment of those who worked at the mill alongside the family.

Bergamo, rich in architecture and in art, is known for its impressive art museum, the ACCADEMIA Carrara. The Glants have enjoyed countless visits to this important and highly regarded Italian institution.

Another favorite family outing is to SAN VIGILIO at the top of Bergamo Alta where the spectacular vistas are a visual delight any time of the year.

In Bergamo one takes a funicular from the Lower City to the Upper City and it was this funicular and a visit to Bergamo that inspired Richard Meier and the concept and design of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

As GLANT celebrates its Fiftieth Anniversary and looks to the future, we reflect on the honor it has been and continues to be, to design and manufacture the highest quality of innovative and timeless textures for the talented and gifted clientele around the world who make it possible for us to do what we do best.