Santino Merico has been working in his Lecce workshop since 1982. There he creates sacred figures, performs restoration work and creates various objects. He makes his pieces on a base, a mannequin made of straw and iron, then covers it in papier maché and delicately paints it. Together with the wide range of products already […]

Plasterego is the contemporary evolution of a story that began 60 years ago in the field of interior plaster decorations in Padua. Mario Boschetto, the founder, walked into the workshop of an artisan-decorator for the first time in October 1951 and took his first steps in the art that would later become his job. In […]

The artisan workshop Legatoria Artistica was born in 1982 from the passion for paper of two sisters, Patrizia and Angela Gronchi. Great attention is paid to the choice of materials, first of all a special paper made by capturing among the fibers flowers and other elements offered by nature. With these precious papers unique objects […]

Marco Ricciardi has been working with alabaster since his days at the Art Institute, when he began making his original candies. After his first workshop he participated in fairs, competitions and exhibitions. In 1985, he began a collaboration, which is still active, with the decorator Lucia Niccolini, with whom he opened Oasi’s artistic handicraft store […]

Five generations of master Florentine artisans specializing in the traditional Italian ritual of shaving. Today, Mondial 1908 is a brand unique of its kind, a mix of exclusive design and custom-made products: luxury shaving sets, the finest shaving brushes, cosmetics and male grooming experience products, as well as special shaving creams made according to age-old […]

The art of scagliola is a traditional method of creating imitation marble and semi-precious stones. It is, thus, the art of creating inlaid works by mixing colored pigments, natural glues and selenite powder with water. It is a technique that became very popular in the 1600s and enjoyed a revival in the 1940s thanks to […]

A skilled restorer and an expert in the field of metalwork, Nicola Savioli trained at a very special school, Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Raised in a family of artisans, he soon developed a remarkable artistic feeling, in particular, a passion for metal objects, which today he restores by combining the use of old and […]

Angelo Sciannella trained as a ceramist in Castelli, Abruzzo, an important and ancient ceramics centre. In 1962, he moved to Oristano, where he skilfully blends the tradition of his land with the local tradition. Also involved in teaching, he creates works characterized by ongoing technical experimentation, where modernity and tradition come together harmoniously, resulting in […]

Berengo Studio is an absolutely original workshop in the glassworks field: since the eighties, it has been gathering various artists who, with the help of master glass-makers, have transformed their pictorial works into glass sculptures. Decorative works of art as well as functional objects and translation of different artistic languages. Popular with collectors from all […]

Flaunting the title of Maestro Liutaio is a young American woman, Jamie Lazzara, who – despite a brilliant career as first violin decided instead to devote herself to the construction of these delightful objects. After a diploma from the Luthiery school of Cremona, Jamie decided to move to Italy, and in 1987 opened a workshop […]