Since 1860, this historic shop in Rome has been a reference point for those seeking mats, runners or small carpets of high quality for the home. After three generations, the customer is guaranteed to find what they need even today, from ‘storini’, the antique shutters typical of the centre of Rome, to the finest oriental […]

Andrea Restelli is an extraordinary keyboard instrument-maker and expert, who has been making faithful replicas of harpsichords, fortepianos and clavichords since 1985. He was the first in the world to rebuild the 1749 Gottfried Silbermann fortepiano, kept in Nuremberg, identical to the one played by Bach. He has recently made replicas of early nineteenth-century fortepianos, […]

Sandro Rongioni continues a long family tradition, which began with his grandfather, an expert carpenter, and entered the field of wooden restoration with his father. The know-how handed down from generation to generation combined with specialized studies has allowed Sandro to open his own workshop in Milan in 1987, where he combines manual expertise with […]

The 18th-century Palazzo Pomarici Santomasi houses both faces of the Alessandro Fiorentino Collection: the business’ productive heart is also home to the Museum-Workshop of Wood Intarsia, started in 1993, following restoration works by architect Alessandro Fiorentino, for the purpose of pro- tecting and promoting this fascinating age-old art which, in Sorrento, reached its full splendor […]

NAA Studio owes its name to the initials of the person who conceived and created it: Negar Azhar Azari, a young Florentine artist of Persian origins. Started in 2011 in the Oltrarno area, in the heart of Florence’s artisan district, NAA Studio is an experimental and innovative workshop deeply rooted in Florence’s goldsmithing tradition. Handmade […]

All the magic of glass is blended together at the customer’s request at the Vetreria Mariotti. Stained glass, glass furniture, objects, lighting equipment, but also technical glass such as tables and crystal banisters. To create the latter, the techniques used are the most advanced and modern, while traditional ones are still used for creating artistic […]

Craftsmen Gennaro Avallone and Giordano Ciminaghi make a wide range of made-to-measure furniture in various sizes and for different uses. Their one-of-a-kind pieces are made of wood, stucco and aluminum and are highly spectacular. The furniture’s surfaces are usually treated with stucco, as well as the frames, which look more like sculptures and can be […]

Since 1960, the Simoncini firm has been making bronze and brass castings in Volterra, the city where more than 2,000 years ago, the highly specialized workshop was located, once Etruria, today Tuscany. The pieces range from furnishing accessories to sculptures, collectibles and art reproductions. The Simoncini family is descended from the sculptor Francesco Simoncini and […]

Located in the lovely Montemagno, near Lucca, M.G. Arredamenti  is a small workshop owned by Giovanni Morelli, where wood is transformed into custom pieces of the  highest craftsmanship, which is a rare find in today’s world. With the collaboration of architects and designers, this workshop creates furnishing and home decor pieces unique of their kind […]

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 […]