Siniscalchi has been selling and shipping handmade sandals for women, men and children all over the world for over 50 years. In addition to leather, other natural skins, semi-precious stones, shells and Swarovski crystals are used to make the sandals and customers can have their shoes personalized. All items are 100% made in Italy, with […]

Bruno Peron’s passion for the art of footwear was born in the late 60s. After learning the trade secrets, in 1985 he opened his first Peron brand shop, now known internationally, thanks to the work of his son Simone, who, in 1995, brought the Peron creations to Pitti Uomo. Not only tailor-made, not only handmade, […]

Rubelli has been creating, producing and marketing fine fabrics since 1889, innovating while remaining faithful to tradition. Today it makes high-performance technical fabrics on new-generation looms, in addition to precious velvets and the exclusive soprarizzi, silk velvets handwoven on original 18th-century looms moved to Venice from the Rubelli factory in Como. In Venice, the Ca’ […]

The history of the Cartiera Amatruda dates back to the fifteenth century. Here, paper is still handmade, following the ancient Amalfi tradition. A high-quality paper, extremely durable, but also sought-after from an aesthetic point of view, appreciated and exported all over the world. Highly-prestigious works have been printed volumes on this paper, such as Processus […]

Research, knowledge, tradition and a forty-year experience are the foundations on which Riccardo Varsallona has built his workshop, which creates and displays one-of-a-kind pieces made according to Caltagirone’s traditional ceramic-making techniques. Caltagirone boasts a deeply-rooted tradition of ceramic processing, since the production of proto-majolicaware, which Varsallona has carefully studied. His children have joined the business […]

It is thanks to Sandro Bormioli that Pyrex, or borosilicate glass, is credited as an artistic material. Even today his son Constantino uses the technique that was made famous by his father to create objects of various kinds, such as animals, flowers, bottles, and chandeliers. Alongside this production, he also creates products using the technique […]

In the fourteenth-century house, Torre dei Sapiti, in a workshop with barrel-vaulted ceilings, carved capitals and walls of exposed stone, is the workshop of Paolo Pagliai, silversmith and restorer, heir of a family that has been working at this craft in the Oltrarno area since 1930. His workshop is a reference point for antique dealers, […]

Simone Cenedese is enterprising, always on the go and trying out new ideas. He grew up in his father Giovanni’s furnace in Murano, of which he is today the brains and soul. Lighting, furnishing accessories and artistic objects. Over forty dyes based on age-old recipes. Whatever comes out of this furnace is never ordinary. Although […]

Aniello Piacente, expert engraver and art enthusiast, opened his own individual firm in 1974 in Ercolano. Having trained with world-famous sculptors and learned much about the local tradition, he creates highly prestigious cameos. In his hands, rough pieces of shell, primarily sardonic and carnelian, take the form of delicate artworks, classic in style and innovative […]

A stone’s throw from the Cathedral of Lecce, in the courtyard of a charming sixteenth century building, you can admire the beautiful papier maché creations of Rosaria Pallara, expert artisan, who, fully respecting the Lecce tradition, creates statues and objects of various kinds, from the sacred to the profane. Some of her most outstanding pieces, […]