Marco Mancini is a known master goldsmith with great artistic skills and techniques, and an ability to blend traditional craftsmanship with technological innovation, making creations of fine artistic jewelry. The inventor of new systems for working and setting precious stones, he has created jewels that are complex and unique unto themselves. With his children Alessandro […]

Cappellificio Falcus was started in 1959 by Folco Mugnai, in Montevarchi, near  Arezzo, in an area known for top-quality hat manufacturing since the late 1800s. The factory soon made a name for itself by making Florentine straw hats and exotic luxury straw hats. It was the first company to experiment with the “blocked fabric” technique […]

The capable hands of maestro Eugenio Celestino opened the original artisan workshop in the town of Longobucco in the 1930s for the production, on traditional handlooms, of the finest fabrics that were used for coverlets, tapestries, carpets, doilies, household linens and trousseau. The quality of the textiles was such that the workshop became a supplier […]

While the tradition of ceramics production in Deruta dates back to the 13th century, participation of the Grazia family began in the 16th century, which still represents five centuries of history and important international collaborations along the way. From the clay to the finished object, every phase is completely hand made. Knowledge and technique have […]

The Longo family’s activity in the field of antique reproduction furniture began in 1974 with Giuseppe, an expert carpenter and restorer. He then passed down this art to his son Gabriele, who over time became a sculptor as well as carver. Today the workshop deals mainly with the restoration of furniture, windows and doors, as […]

Alberto Giampieri is the whole package when it comes to ceramics. As a child, he began experimenting with moulding his toys, before growing up and transforming his passion into a profession. He trained with several Florentine masters, but he is primarily self-taught. Since 2011, he’s worked in his own workshop, crafting elegant majolica vases and […]

Bettanin e Venturi is a family craft business now in its fifth generation: started as a saddlery maker in the 1800s, the workshop then specialized in custom-made shoes and, in the ‘60s-70s, it expanded and diversified into a more structured business. The company produces mostly men’s shoes and, as an exception, women’s shoes if inspired […]

When he started his own glassworks at the end of World War Two, Archimede Seguso was already a successful master glassmaker, well-known, since the 1920s, for his sophisticated animal-themed creations. In the 1930s, he created wonderful bullicante and pulegoso glass vases and he specialized in the massello-style sculpture, and then, in the 1950s, he experimented […]

The Barbini family has been committed to the art of Venetian mirrors since 1927. Started by Nicolò Barbini, this creative and versatile workshop specializes in the art of glass engraving and in the production and restoration of old and modern Venetian mirrors. All processing stages – from the design to assembly, including cutting, grinding, engraving […]