An internationally renowned master perfumer – with a portfolio boasting clients such as Gucci, Harrods, Richard Ginori and IWC – in his OL’Factory in the heart of Florence, Sileno Cheloni creates made-to-measure perfumes and unique olfactory experiences, such as the Sensory Dinner and the Incense Ceremony. A perfumer-explorer who blends rare, natural raw materials, essences […]

An artisan by passion and vocation, since 1992 Lucia Volentieri has been creating unique designer decor objects that are genuine small-scale sculptures. Expertise and understanding of moulding techniques (sheet, wheel, casting, coiling), but also firing and glazing; a love of the material, imagination and ceaseless research guide her hands as she creates objects in ceramic, […]

Corrado De Meo’s jewellery is unconventional sculptures that, despite their size, are light and very wearable. The starting point is usually a polymer that is then coated with resins or silver. It is worked using lime, fire and other things that allow it to be transformed. These artworks are made on commission, but usually the […]

Sandro Tiberi is a skilled craftsman with a passion for paper: in his workshop he produces various things. His lamps are very evocative, and made with the technique of filigree. Each type of paper is created completely by hand, using only high quality raw materials, carefully refined to meet all needs, including those who use […]

Born in 1989 out of the passion and experience of the two owners Rita Rinaldi and Marzia Poggi. One-of-the-kind pieces, the two designers’ creations are made of metal combined with wood, ebony, precious and semi-precious stones. As a result, bold pieces of jewelry with a clean shape and simple design. Oreria offers its customers also […]

Saverio Pastor, the brains and soul behind Le fórcole, is the senior member of the group of Venetian rowers and the trusted supplier of gondoliers and Veneto-style rowing lovers from all over the world since 1981. At his workshop, together with Pietro Meneghini, he makes beech and ramin-wood oars, walnut, pear and cherry wood rowlocks […]

Born in a small town on the outskirts of Naples, Antonio Panico was eleven years old when he began working at Giuseppe Ruotolo’s tailor’s shop. He then learned the se- crets of freehand cutting from Robeto Combattente, a true artist in the field. Master cutter for over 20 years at the fa- mous Rubinacci tailor’s […]

In the workshop of Loredana Mandas, gold filigree artist, one experiences the thrill of watching typical Sardinian jewels being created strictly by hand. In its showcases are fine jewels in traditional designs next to ethnic and geometric jewelry, also pendants, earrings, and rings, enriched with precious and semiprecious stones. Delicate compositions of intricate gold embroidery, […]

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 feature that makes this workshop, which has been creating artistic mosaics since the 1800s, unique is use of three different mosaic techniques: the Florentine mosaic in hard stone; the micro-mosaic made from spun glass; and the classic cut mosaic made from pieces of glass. Mosaic masters specialised in these techniques make jewellery and ornaments, […]