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 […]

The company was founded in Mogliano in 1974 by the craftsman Tommaso Candria, an expert in the art of the typical weaving of the area. After an initial phase in which he devoted himself exclusively to the production of furnishings, in 1990, he launched a line of bags and accessories, weaving on wooden forms both […]

Since 1977 in Turin, Mastro Corradin has been working in the beautiful setting of the medieval village within the Parco del Valentino. In addition to focusing on the production and restoration of objects in forged iron, he works with colleagues and craftsmen specialized in the working of other materials, such as wood, stone, glass, ceramics, […]

A studio-workshop that works with and experiments in the field of the mosaic, conceived as contemporary art in its many forms. Together with their collaborators, Mohamed and Laura Chabarik Carraro, both outside lecturers at the Mosaic School of Friuli, create works with materials and techniques of various types. Their work is always unique and artisan, and […]

Just as the Etruscans, of whom Volterra was one of the main city-states, did millennia ago, and just as his father, who opened the workshop in the late 1940s, did, so Spartaco Montagnani in his workshop in the heart of the historic center makes finely crafted cast bronze figurines. Reproductions of Etruscan art, including the […]

Pitti Mosaici was started by Ilio de Filippis who, after having trained at his father’s marble workshop in Venafro, near Isernia, opened his own place in Florence in the early eighties. Ilio is one of the few remaining artisans who still practices the age-old Florentine art of semi-precious stone mosaic-making. Over the years, many young […]

Heir to a tradition handed down from generation to generation since the mid-nineteenth century, Carlo Andreacchio, with his wife Rita Maria Caraceni, continues to create splendid men’s suits in the historic Sartoria A. Caraceni. Completely sewn by hand, they are cut with a technique that gives them a perfect fit. Sportswear, double-breasted blazers, dress coats, […]

Since 1799, in a former convent of the 1500s, Tipografia Grifani Donati has conducted its activity at the service of customers: lithography, intaglio printing and typography, perhaps being the only print shop in Europe to still perform all these activities. Furthermore, it does so with antique machinery, creating unique and refined works. A complete workshop […]

We are located in Gerace, a beautiful town in Calabria in the Aspromonte National Park. In this workshop you can find hand-crafted items such as furnishings, light fittings or gifts: a wide range of stylish and refined accessories where the classic and the modern meet in a blend of styles. The main ranges include: Fantasia, […]

For nearly a century, here, in this historic workshop of Bologna, visitors have watched the magic of iron being worked into different shapes. Today it is Pierluigi, the founder’s grandson, who devotes himself to the creation of precious decorative objects in both classic and modern styles, in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, all […]