Patrizia Brancaleone, glassmaker since 1986, is a woman with a brilliant talent, extraordinary dexterity and and an unquenchable curiosity. In her world light is the most extraordinary emotional element, created through the use of colour, intensity and inconsistency. Glass fusing (a technique imported from the United States), pâte de verre, mosaico, grisaille: she uses many […]

A business located in the heart of Udine. Started in 1966 inside Palazzo Brazzà by three women, the workshop has been run by Eva Seminara since 1999. She is passionately fond of the traditional artisan atmosphere that fills her  bookbinder’s workshop, but she also added a creative and modern touch which has made the business […]

Moulding, throwing and hand-painted decoration: all this is done in the workshop in Bassano del Grappa which for 13 years has hosted the activities of Il Pesce Rosso. Original drawings on pottery and earthenware, customization and bespoke packaging. Il Pesce Rosso has chosen the path of craftsmanship and biocompatibility: in fact, it uses only high-quality […]

In 2007 Takafumi Mochizuki left the Land of the Rising Sun to move to Florence. After studying furniture restoration for some years he opened his own workshop, becoming the “Zouganista”, from “zougan”, marquetry in Japanese. Because this is his greatest passion: leaving his mark on the wood, creating decorative objects with attractive lines, with curvilinear […]

In Paolucci’s workshop, one can still smell the odours and hear the sounds that up until 10 or so years ago were typical of the city of Frosolone, where the art of forging has very distant origins. Experience has been handed down from father to son, and makes it possible for them to produce the […]

Armando Mortet is part of the fourth generation of a French family of sculptors, goldsmiths, engravers and carvers that, having formed in Florence, later moved to Rome where it has been working since 1890. The products of the Bottega D’Arte Mortet are in keeping with the tradition of Renaissance workshops, ranging from sculptures to jewellery […]

Since 1902 Picchiani e Barlacchi have been making artistic medals using traditional techniques: anniversaries, awards and any event can be a pretext for the creation of a small jewel or medal. Recently, the company has been devoting the same craftsmanship and attention to the creation of small accessories and silver jewellery. Everything is designed and […]

To Vanessa Cavallaro, before a trade, this is a family tradition. Her first teacher was her father, and even as a child Vanessa loved to watch him work, thus learning the rudiments of the glyptic art made with the lathe, later perfecting her technique with studies. An international artist, she produces works of engraving on […]

One of Italy’s oldest workshops for the restoration of artistic carpets. The workshop is currently run by Benedetto Bumaguin and Orna Bachar, husband and wife, but it dates back to the early 1900s, when Benedetto Bumaguin’s grandfather, the famous Alberto Meschoulam, born in Istanbul, Turkey, the cradle of the great masters of carpet restoration, opened […]

After thirty years of experience in glass processing and with a very long family tradition dating back to the second half of the nineteenth century, the brothers Alberto and Nicola Moretti founded in 2013 a dynamic and competent company, specialized in murrino glass processing and glass casting. The company NicolaMoretti, specialized in the production of […]