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ALPI is real wood. Not printed, not synthetic, not a copy of anything. Real timber, broken down and put back together by design, so the grain, the colour and the texture are decided before the sheet exists.
That single difference changes what a designer can do. A surface that reads identically across four hundred door frames. A specification that can be reproduced exactly five years later. A timber that behaves like teak without requiring teak.
This is what ALPI makes possible, and why it is specified into some of the most ambitious interiors in the world.
ALPI is a reconstituted wood veneer. Real wood, broken down into thin sheets, dyed, composed, pressed into a new block, and sliced back into veneer. The result looks and feels like timber because it is timber. What changes is the part most people never see. The grain, the colour and the texture are designed before the sheet exists.
ALPI was founded in Italy in 1919 and was the first company in the world to industrialise this process. Today the range is specified into hotels, retail flagships, healthcare facilities, marine interiors and high-end residential projects on every continent. It is used because nothing else does what it does.
A designer working with ALPI is no longer asking nature for a favour. The species, the cut and the colour are choices, not lucky finds.
ALPI grain is composed sheet by sheet. Every panel in a run matches, and the same product code is reproducible identically years later. For a hotel with hundreds of door frames, this matters. For a retail roll-out across many stores, it matters more.
ALPI is available in hundreds of species, finishes and effects. Some replicate familiar timbers. Others are designed by the world's leading designers and are unlike anything that can be cut from a tree. The Legacy Collection by Piero Lissoni, and collections by Patricia Urquiola, Kengo Kuma, the Campana Brothers, nendo, Raw Edges and Gamfratesi, are all ALPI doing what only ALPI can do.
A project completed in 2026 can be extended in 2031, and the new ALPI sheets will match the original. The product code is the specification. This is a different relationship with material than most designers are used to.
ALPI uses only one per cent of the wood resource compared with solid timber. The veneer is FSC 100% certified. For BREEAM, LEED and WELL submissions, ALPI gives the specifier a documented, defensible answer.
Hotels at scale, where hundreds of doors, lift lobbies, headboards and joinery details have to read as one design. ALPIready, the pre-finished panel, arrives on site ready to install in four factory finishes. Site finishing is removed from the programme entirely.
Where the surface is part of the brand story and the specification must repeat exactly across stores, cities and years.
Where timber softens a clinical environment and the design intent has to survive long, complex specification chains.
Where a designer is asked to deliver a specific aesthetic at scale, and the surface has to perform as well as it looks. ALPI is IMO MED certified in the appropriate finishes for marine and yacht interiors.
The most important step in a successful ALPI project is the specification language. ALPI specified by product code and supplier is protected. ALPI specified loosely is open to substitution.
The wording that works: ALPI [product code], supplied by Merenda. Once that line is in the spec, the design intent is protected. Substitution requires written architect consent.
The Merenda team will help with the product code, the sample, the lead time, the specification language and the conversation with the joinery company at tender stage. This is part of the service.
Many architects, designers and joinery companies who read this already work with Merenda on edge banding, wrap profiles or natural veneer. If you have not yet specified ALPI, we would be glad to walk you through the range, send a sample kit and run a CPD session for your team. No obligation. The aim is to make sure ALPI is on your list when the right project comes in.
