Old trees are not only made of firewood. They often conceal a nice wooden ball, an extraordinary dish or an exquisite wooden bowl. Being able to extract these items from the wood is Drechslerei Fritz’s great skill. Products of all shapes, from the more common to the more unusual, characterised by soft, rounded lines. The […]

The first evidence of an ‘apothecary’ in the new church of Santa Maria Novella built by Dominican friars dates back to 1542, but it was only in 1612 that the workshop opened its services to the public. Today the products are made using machines designed and built to fulfil the needs of the company while […]

The aristocratic and master ceramic-maker from Palermo Giovanni De Simone stood out among other local artisans for his ability in combining artwork, inspired by artists of the caliber of Picasso, Matisse, Leger and Klee, and the Sicilian pottery tradition. The current owners have been pursuing the workshop founder’s philosophy from the outset: creativity and quality, […]

In 2007 Takafumi Mochizuki left the Land of the Rising Sun to move to Florence. After studying furniture restoration for some years he opened his own workshop, becoming the “Zouganista”, from “zougan”, marquetry in Japanese. Because this is his greatest passion: leaving his mark on the wood, creating decorative objects with attractive lines, with curvilinear […]

The artistic processing of coral is, in Torre del Greco, a cen- turies-old tradition, whose history and fame have been inter- twined with the name of the Ascione family since 1855. They started the city’s oldest goldsmith’s shop, famous for its so- phisticated ‘red gold’ jewelry, but also in mother-of-pearl, hard stones and precious metals […]

The warping, weaving, finishing processes, everything is done by hand at Antiche tessiture Lucchesi. The experimentation with different fabrics and colors is combined with the use of centuries-old methods and procedures, such as vegetable dyeing. The workshop creates clothes and accessories for men, women and children, as well as furnishing objects and house-hold linen, in […]

Following the local tradition of ceramic-making, in the late 1700s goldsmith and intaglio artist Girolamo Franchini began researching the porcelain-making process, which was very fashionable in Europe at the time. In 1955, the Florentine Giovanni Battista Giorgini, the man who launched Italian high fashion throughout the world and supported the “marriage” of fashion and design, […]

This artisan leather company dates from 1956. The third Peroni generation, Maurizio and Marco, keep the professionalism and manual skills of their predecessors alive today, with the added value of creativity and innovation. Over 1,500 items are made strictly by hand and most of them are without stitching thanks to the ancient shaping technique of […]

Gabriella Sacchi is a ceramics architect who opened the Laboratorio Spazio Nibe dedicated to contemporary ceramics in 1981. In the workshop limited series of small objects and unique sculptural pieces are created. The items produced reflect a continuous research in the formal and technical content and can be considered as a combination of art, craft […]

Bruno Glauco opens his own artisan business in the late 80s in Urbino. Since then he has been creating beautiful gold and silver jewellery, made entirely by hand paying attention to even the smallest details. An experienced Master Goldsmith, he is perfectly skilled in different types of processes, such as engraving, jewel setting, chiselling and […]