The history of this company starts in the beautiful Naples, home to bespoke male tailoring, but it is in 1969, when it transferred to Catanzaro, that Angela Lemma and her husband Giovanni Santillo opened the renowned Santillo 1970 shirt shop. The strength of the1970 Santillo collection, besides the prized fabrics, is attention to the entirely […]

It was by working terracotta at his father’s company, a small factory in Sant’Agnello producing bricks since the 16th cen- tury, that Marcello Aversa discovered his passion for Nativi- ty scenes and began creating small masterworks: by using a stick and a pin, he moulds his terracotta figurines ranging from 10 cm to the amazing […]

A Florentine institution in the silverware manufacturing field since 1902, Pampaloni specializes in the production of a wide choice of silver objects by drawing from extensive archives of shapes and models and by using state-of-the-art technology which allows to reproduce any organic shape. Many are the commemorative pieces made to celebrate cultural or sporting achievements, […]

Marilena Fantozzi, always inspired by the desire to create, graduated from the Academy of Costume and Fashion, and initially went to work with fashion houses and designers. Later, under the wise guidance of her aunt Assunta, she dedicated herself passionately to making bridal gowns. Motherhood then led her to explore the magical world of making […]

It is hard not to find him intent on creating one of his wonderful works of art at his workshop/museum in Murano. Today, just like in 1971, when he was barely fourteen years old and created his first works inspired mostly by classical art, Greek-Roman and Byzantine art, medieval and Renaissance theatre and Commedia dell’Arte. […]

This creative workshop was established in the early 1990s for the purpose of creating plates that would bring back to everyday mealtimes the atmosphere and warmth lost to industrial chinaware. In addition to plates, the workshop creates coffee and tea sets, flowerpot holders, vases, tiles, candlesticks, centerpieces and customized gifts in thin, white ceramic biscuit, […]

Gucciardo Jewellers, located in Trapani, is synonymous with craftsmanship and reliability since 1950. As well as creating jewelry in coral, according to the tradition of the Trapani coral artisans, the second generation represented by Cinzia and Marcello has also started up a restoration business, as well as dealing in precious antiques. The Gucciardo family’s passion […]

Alessandro Marzetti’s alabaster sculptures, which he calls Stone Drawings, are made by using age-old techniques and feature an elegant thread-like appearance, light and airy. A sort of sculptural handwriting in which strips of worked material draw shapes suspended in space and enclosed in thin cubic cages, which are not seen as oppressive structures, but as […]

Located on one of Volterra’s most characteristic streets, L’Istrice is a workshop-laboratory that produces beautiful original etchings, engraved entirely by hand on zinc or copper plate. The works are printed one at a time, without the aid of any mechanical process, signed by the artist and numbered progressively in a limited run. A visit to […]