Antica Manifattura Cappelli is the oldest hat workshop in Rome, the only one that has received recognition for being a Historical Shop of Rome. The product is completely handmade and “Made in Italy”. As an accessory that must help enhance not only the face but also the personality of the client, it is made to […]

The workshop is currently restoring artwork for Florence’s Opera del Duomo Museum and about thirty of the Basilica’s stained-glass windows have been restored by the workshop’s highly experienced and skillful artisans. Not only does the workshop take care of precious artwork, but has a number of private customers and produces new stained-glass windows, both big […]

The De Bonis family is a dynasty of luthiers that have been producing guitars in Bisignano for many years: Rosalba, the current custodian of the family tradition, is the sixth generation.  The De Bonis luthier produces fully hand-crafted classical guitars and “chitarre battenti” in Via Giudecca using traditional techniques. The latter are a rarity, as […]

Restoring works of art requires perhaps even more sensitivity, skill and patience than creating them. Pia Virgilio specializes in aesthetic and preservative restoration of terracotta, majolica, porcelain and biscuit objects, stoneware and enameled metal. After having studied at the famous Ballardini Institute of Faenza (a land known for its long-standing pottery-making tradition), Pia began working […]

Ivana and Saura Vignoli started their artistic ceramics workshop in 1976. Shapes and decorations are rooted in Faenza’s rich pottery tradition, but they are also inspired by Mediterranean styles, with special interest in Islamic, Spanish, Moresque, Roman and Byzantine culture. The use of the uncommon blast-fire reduction technique allows them to make the ceramics, which […]

The textile production of the DeMartini family has a long history, dating back to 1500, a time when the textile art was one of the main economic activities of the Republic of Genoa. Today, as then, they produce damask with old shuttle looms, lampas and canvases for macramé, typical of Liguria, but also woven goods […]

Giuseppe Bucco and Flavio Cavalli create their products by using glazed stoneware, which is an amazingly resistant and waterproof ceramic material, used to make vases, trays, bottles, human and animal figurines. The engobe decoration is composed of clay mixed with metallic oxides, dyes and flux substances combined with siliceous sand to give the artifacts the […]

Alice Corbetta enjoys describing herself as a “surface designer”. Born in Milan, Alice has been working in Tuscany since 2007, where she deals with contemporary decoration of living spaces, by creating concrete and resin textures and surfaces which she applies on walls, panels, furniture and furnishing objects. Delicate bas-reliefs that create tactile surfaces through which […]

Ornella Aprosio, since 1993 has been drawing on an inner font of visions, ideals, and memories to create a sparkling world of beauty, inspired by nature. The raw materials for her pieces are the intangible and bright Murano glass beads and Bohemian crystal, that in her Florentine workshop, which brings to mind the Renaissance, become […]

A veritable glass chandelier artist, master glassmaker Luigi Fornasier started his glassworks over fifty years ago, and then handed down all his knowledge to his son Fabio, who combines his father’s technical skill and his own innate inquisitiveness which leads him to constantly research different shapes, volumes, colours and finishing details, experimental at times, designed […]