Corrado De Meo’s jewellery is unconventional sculptures that, despite their size, are light and very wearable. The starting point is usually a polymer that is then coated with resins or silver. It is worked using lime, fire and other things that allow it to be transformed. These artworks are made on commission, but usually the […]

The perfect Italian shoe: this is the ambitious goal that Stefano Bemer set himself in 1983 when he started his business in the heart of Florence. And indeed, this brand of men’s shoes, made by hand, have become synonymous with quality and excellence, and, even today, after the untimely death of Stefano, Tommaso Melani carries […]

A kind and sincere person, Giuseppina Altieri has been working leather for 30 years. In 1985, she attended the annual saddle-making course in Rome and felt immediately confident and at ease with this form of craftwork. Over the years, Giuseppina has gained the experience required to make objects of the highest quality and any kind […]

For more than 30 years Mariaelisa Leboroni has been using the woodcut technique, an art born in China three thousand years ago and that continues to live on in the Perugia workshop. In the artistic print studio original prints, books, stationery and games are made as well as bookplates, engraved on wood, printed with old […]

At nine years old, Loris Vestrucci decided that he wanted to become a tailor. Starting from the bottom, he learnt from the tailoring maestro Mealli before becoming a superb apprentice. It was his mentor Giuntini that taught him how to cut fabric and to master the subtleties and refinements of the Florentine sartorial school, that […]

An internationally renowned master perfumer – with a portfolio boasting clients such as Gucci, Harrods, Richard Ginori and IWC – in his OL’Factory in the heart of Florence, Sileno Cheloni creates made-to-measure perfumes and unique olfactory experiences, such as the Sensory Dinner and the Incense Ceremony. A perfumer-explorer who blends rare, natural raw materials, essences […]

Andrea Branciforti describes his workshop, where he creates furniture, tableware and lava stone coverings, as a place of cross-genre creativity. A forty-year experience in the field combined with the use of centuries-old traditions. Artists, designers, customers and friends, all leave a sign of their passage, in particular, in the modern collection, produced under the brand […]

Needles, awls, hammers, pliers and hole punches. It only takes a glance to see that this laboratory is run by experts who really know all the secrets of leathercraft. All their creations – belts, wallets, bucket bags, laptop cases – are cut by Paolo Fattori and sewn by his wife Luisa, using exclusively leathers tanned […]

The name Fuga has been associated with the world of Venetian mirrors since 1852, owing to the artist and artisan Angelo Fuga. It was Franco, however, who started, alongside his wife Tullia Ongaro, this workshop, which has become the paragon of Venetian excellence, also entrusted with the delicate task of restoring the mirrors of La […]