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 […]

The Ceramiche Artistiche workshop was born in 1984 from Margherita Giovanna Pilloni’s passion for working with ceramics. Teacher and skilful artisan, she makes objects that are connected with the Oristano tradition, but reinterpreted in a modern key. Beautiful ornaments mainly created under commission from a customer: plates, vases, bowls and many other items made of […]

The Kennedys, King Charles III of England, the presi- dents of the Italian Republic, Aristotele Onassis and Daniel Craig in Skyfall: these are only a few of the famous names who fell in love with E. Marinella ties. And it’s hard to dis- agree with them. The ties by this historic brand created at the […]

The workshop of Sammartino & Delfino, housed in an old eighteenth-century building, has contributed to Caltagirone’s reputation as the Lady of Colors. It offers classic ceramics, whose shapes, colors and patterns are enhanced by the modern creativity of the master ceramic-makers who work in the workshop. All ceramic objects are made by hand and all […]

For the last ten years Fukaya Hidetaka has been working in his workshop making customised shoes, in the alleys of Florence between Via della Vigna Nuova and Via della Spada, in the company of a large black cat. After graduating from fashion school in Japan, he studied in Siena and cutting his teeth in various […]

Laberintho, a creative space started in 1994 by Marco Venier and Davide Visentin – who share the goal of infusing handmade contemporary jewellery with a new identity –designs and makes amazing creations: old seals and geometric shapes, animals, small pictures, gold, silver, blown glass and diamonds, ebony, amber and turquoise, black coral and fossil agate… […]

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, […]

A true artisan workshop with a strong Renaissance atmosphere. Nerdi Orafi has been housed in the Casa dell’Orafo on the Ponte Vecchio, where the Medici Family chose to gather all Florentine goldsmiths, since 1948. In addition to restoration works, this magical place creates custom-made jewelry, engraving on precious metals, seals and coats of arms. Sketches […]

Masters of book-binding and paper-marbling with over 150 years of experience. It all began with Pietro Giannini, who opened a small shop in Piazza Pitti in 1856. Then his son, Giulio Senior’s, parchment binding marked an era, determining what in the history of Italian binding is known as the Florentine style. Still today the activities […]

Pesaro, city of ceramics, houses the secrets of an ancient art that lives on today in the workshop of Tiziano Donzelli. He produces ancient and modern majolica, as well as oil painting and drawing. His passion and his skill led him to develop different decorative techniques and genres: portraits, decorations on large surfaces and custom […]