Franco Puppato developed his passion at the age of fourteen by going to his uncle’s workshop in Treviso. He later moved to Venice, where he trained at Antonio Napoliello’s tailor’s shop, learning all the secrets behind men’s bespoke tailoring, including the technical trigonometry method, with which one can take accurate body measurements down to the […]

The location is just steps away from the Rialto bridge. It is here that Bastianello Arte, inspired by the great Venetian tradition of, for instance, the iconic moretti, creates unique jewellery in terms of design and elegance, according to age-old techniques combined with creativity and research. One-of-a-kind pieces conveying passion for the past and traditional […]

Following in the footsteps of his father Franco, a master goldsmith who started the business in the early 1970s, Simone Groppi graduated at the Academy of Art of Brera developing a deep interest in jewelry-making by using the age-old chiseling, fretwork and lost-wax casting techniques. Elegant creations with the addition of Simone’s personal artistic touch, […]

Nobile 1942’s workshop proudly represents the Italian handmade tradition, which is carried on by a family that has been passionately devoted to perfumes and to the creation of beauty for three generations. The company sells through a limited and exclusive national and international distribution network. The maceration process follows nature’s rhythms and the production is […]

In the fourteenth-century house, Torre dei Sapiti, in a workshop with barrel-vaulted ceilings, carved capitals and walls of exposed stone, is the workshop of Paolo Pagliai, silversmith and restorer, heir of a family that has been working at this craft in the Oltrarno area since 1930. His workshop is a reference point for antique dealers, […]

Musella Dembech is an elegant tailor’s shop of long-standing. The secrets of a highly skilled trade bordering on art have been handed down through three generations. A sophisticated style that Francesco Musella, a master tailor of the old Milanese Caraceni school, alongside his son Gianfrancesco, has built gradually, day by day, viewing the customer as […]

Le Sibille was born out of the skill and passion of three young women- Camilla Bronzini, Francesca Neri Serneri and Antonella Perugini- who started a dynamic and versatile Renaissance workshop. Each with her own style and expertise creates wonderful jewelry, one-of-a-kind pieces made by using the ancient Roman micromosaic technique reinterpreted in a contemporary manner. […]

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 […]

Not stopping simply at making the handcrafted frames of the business’s beginnings, for some years Stefano Ajello has also been recovering and reusing materials such as old wooden shutters or similar items. Materials that would be destined for pulping are reworked by Stefano Ajello and transformed into furnishings and frames, alongside the traditional framing. All […]

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 […]