Located at the foot of the Etna volcano, Antonio Gulisano’s workshop specializes in the preservation and restoration of wooden works, gilding, selling of artwork, antiques and modern collectibles. After some years of training and working in Florence, where he restored works of art from the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti, Antonio moved back to his […]

Paoletti Instruments was established in 2010, but its creations have become a favorite with internationally-renowned musicians in a very short time. The first was Maurizio Solieri, Vasco Rossi’s guitarist, but many are the stars who now play Fabrizio Paoletti’s personalized guitars and basses, including Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards. From the selection of woods to […]

In Laura de Cesare’s workshop ideas and thoughts intertwine like threads giving life to new projects that take the form of precious fabrics and elegant fabric objects, made on hand looms of 4, 8, 16 and 24 healds. Teaching at the laboratory but also at universities and academies, she constantly cultivates exchanges with young enthusiasts, […]

The Bottega Gatti was founded in Faenza in 1928 by the painter, sculptor and ceramist Riccardo Gatti. In that same year, Riccardo Gatti approached the Futurist Movement and created a series of pottery objects on the basis some of his models and those of some of the important members of the artistic group, such as […]

In the heart of Varese, the “garden city,” a small contemporary workshop where artistic objects are created to perfection with skill, taste and unusual materials. Elena Magni and Valeria Bellorini are the animators and owners of this atelier, which produces exceptional home décor items such as tables and side tables, consoles, mirrors and decorative panels. […]

The activity of luthier Martino Quintavalla originates from a passion for music and manual work but draws on the technological and scientific approach matured during his previous work as a researcher in materials engineering and the experience in the workshop with luthier Federico Gabrielli with whom he carried out a research project on mandolins, funded […]

Tailor-made is not exactly the word one would use to describe eyeglasses, but those designed by Ozona, a brand born in 2006, are as made-to-measure as it gets. Sandro Gonnella, who gained experience in the eyeglass manufacturing field by working for famous brands, felt the need to create something different that would convey his passion […]

Based in the heart of Gubbio, this historic workshop has been creating pottery for over 50 years by using the ancient Etruscan technique called bucchero, a traditional method rediscovered by Antonio Maria Rossi and now skillfully carried on by his son Gaetano. Every piece, which is made on a wheel, is polished with wood to […]

An artisan workshop specializing in bespoke footwear. A tradition that has been handed down from father to son and that Alfio Bruschi has been continuing since 1975 in his own shop in Montegranaro, in the province of Fermo. In 2000, the brand was established and began collaborating with international brands in the footwear world and […]

Lispi & Co. forges designer objects in wrought iron. Emanuele Lispi learned this art from his father and his family that has worked iron for generations, while taking the work in a new artistic direction. At the Lispi & Co. workshop it is not simple objects that are created but real works of art, conceived, […]