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 […]

The story of Micromega begins in 2000, with an innovative patent registered by the founder and inventor Roberto Carlon. Having trained as an optician at his father’s shop, driven by the desire to create a sleek, lightweight and durable product and, above all, the result of manual skill, he distanced himself from the traditional approach […]

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, […]

Located just steps away from Volterra’s Etruscan gate is the workshop of Paolo Sabatini, a true master of the art of alabaster carving. Anything can be a source of inspiration for his creations, from a simple scrawl to a beautiful bronze statuette from the Etruscan Museum. Paolo Sabatini makes use of pieces of wood and […]

Since 1992, Marina Rizzini has been producing tailored knitwear, each season offering a sampling of some 40 new garments. Every step of the production line is done by hand, from the machine knitting, done with the old manual flat knitting machines, up to the packaging. Paying close attention to detail and the quality of the […]

This Museum-Workshop of hand-weaving is incredibly fascinating: started in 1921 in the Church of San Francesco delle Donne, it still makes use of eighteenth and nineteenth-century looms to create furnishing fabrics. These fabrics’ warp thread is in cotton, while the weft thread, which is what makes up the pattern, is usually made of silk, cashmere, […]

Annangela Lovallo was born in 1959. She inherited her passion for embroidery from her mother, who was already a highly appreciated embroiderer. In 1988, she opened an embroidery workshop, Il Filo di Arianna, specializing in painting with a needle and embroidery of miniatures. Here precious works come together and delicately blend, threads and refined elements […]

A Venetian artist born and raised in the heart of the Lagoon, Orsola Mainardis has been designing and creating amazing jewellery in Murano crystal and glass for over ten years. What makes them unique is the careful colour combinations, the choice of fine materials and, above all, the experience and expertise gained over time. From […]

Pictalab is an artisan business that specializes in interior decorating and finishing. Among the techniques it makes use of are trompe l’oeil, stucco, French-polishing and imitation marble, which have been gracing private homes and public places, both in Italy and abroad, for over ten years. In 2014, Picta Lab began designing, producing and marketing highly-personalized […]

For over 40 years Mirta Morigi has been working in her ceramics workshop, set up like those of the Renaissance. Her pottery is a happy mix of the courtly majolica of the past and the future. She creates, in fact, her own brightly-coloured, provocative majolica, without sacrificing its typical lightness and conceptual irony. Each creation […]